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Show EARTHQUAKE EN . , .. tSALT "LAKE CITY Many Buildings Damaged by the Severest Shock Ever Felt in Utih . Largs Structures Sway Perceptibly vHotel Guests Frightened Fright-ened Chimneys Knocked Down Excitement Intense. bricks piling down through the ceil-In ceil-In i?. Five Home Damaged. The block on the south side of Third South treet, between Firm Went and Second West streets, probably sustained sus-tained more damage than a like area In any part of the city. Here there were no less than Ave housed damaged dam-aged from the quake. At the house occupied by Joseph Larson, 229 West Third South street, the abode caused n't'te a number of the bricks from the chimney to fall. At 243 West Third South street, which iri a double bouse, occupied by William Wil-liam Schonert and owned by the Windsor Wind-sor company, two chimneys were badly bad-ly daniagod. One of these, which la about fifteen feet high, is cracked Its entire length, and Is so badly damaged dam-aged that It In dangerous. At 273 West Third South street, which Is la a terrace, a number of bricks from the front coping of the building have been displaced. One of the members of the family. when leaving the bouse Just after the first shock, narrowly escaped having several sev-eral bricks fall on his head. The old church, standing at the northwest corner of Third South and First West strepts, and now used aa a hotel, also sustained some damage. The two wooden turrets which surmounted sur-mounted the building In the front woro badly shaken and the one on the ea-t side gave way after the shock and toppled ever. Its downward progress was stayed by the. large chimney on the First West street side of the building, where It now rests wedged In between the chimney and the roof, i . Yesterday morning Salt Ike swayed sway-ed and rocked, tall buildings wavered, waver-ed, windows and doors rattled, clocks stopped, and Mother FJrth. was menacingly men-acingly unsteady. Then the rumblings rumb-lings ceased, the buildings stood still, hearts that seemed for tbe time to have ceased . beating thumped with hope again and. the Utah capital's first big earthquake was a thing of the past. The shock lasted two mln-uteK mln-uteK and fifteen seconds. Two subsequent shocks were of less violence. The earthquake wa. according to the best of authority, tho shifting of a gigantic earth block almost directly under the clt The first shock came at 7:28. the second at StfiS, a-jd the third at 11:26, the last being barely perceptible. Tbe center of the disturbance was Salt Lake. Other sections of the state suffered but little- The total propertv loss In Salt Lake probably will b heavy, comprising numerous minor damages. CitT Building Inspector Inspec-tor A. P.. Hlrth says the solid con-structlon con-structlon of the local business blocks undoubtedly saved them from serious Carnage or from destruction. Salt Lake's panic, while It lasted, was widespread. Hotel g-Jsts rushed frantically from their rooms and down stairs, many being restrained by force from descending Are escapes. The few Sundav morning occupants of the big down-town buildings mostly Janitors and scrubwomen dashed In terror Into In-to the streets Slumbcrers In the residence resi-dence districts, rudely awakend by the first shock, hastened out of doors. Roy Worthlugionu, an employ In the business department of The Tribune, Trib-une, was just coming to work when the convulsion of this portion of the earth occurred. When the shock be-carao be-carao apparent Mr. Worthlngton was I in front of C.ardner's store on Main street, a few doors north of Tho Tribune Trib-une building, he says,, "I heard tho windows In the Gardner store croaking and twisting It seemed to me, and then looking up at The Tribune building build-ing I cculd nee the top of It a kind of swaying. It loOkeJ. as if the cement or plaster was breaking loose from thi brick. There'was dust coming out In clouds from the side of the building. Everybody on the sidewalks ran to tho middle of the 'street. . Many of those who were in the restaurants rushed Into the street with tho napkins still adorning them tho meal was forgotten, forgot-ten, they were seeking a place of safety safe-ty In the middle of the street As I was running across tho street I bumped Into a pole I was trying to get away from the largo window hi the office Of, course 1 do not know whether It .was the earthquake shock that throw mo against the pole or whether It was In my hurry to get away from the-window that I came la contact with the post. But from the Hrlgh;im Youug monument down to Third South on Main street It seemed seem-ed as If everyone In tho buildings lind fled to the street. Thought Fire the Cause. At the Wilson hotel many of the guests were of the opinion that the hotel was on lire. At the Knutsford the majority-feared that a boiler had exploded. At the Semloh, Kcnyon, Moxum and Cullen the guests were at a 1. S3 to fignre'out Just what had happened. hap-pened. Some thought Halley's comet had fitruck the earth, others remembered remem-bered the recent explosion of dynamite dyna-mite at Beck's Hot Springs, and some few suspected an earthquake. H. M. Hawkins was In charge of the Knutsford when the first shock was felt Mrs. Nellie Shondy and Mrs. i Anna Oakley also were in the office. Mr. Hawkiuj realized almost Instantly Instant-ly that the city had been visited by an earthquake and wlthla a short time ho had quieted the guests who had been awakened by the tremor. The hotel was not damaged. W. D. Ahem of the .Cullen was in charge when the building began to rock. Many of the guests were awakened, awak-ened, but there was no general exodus from the hotel. N. S Wolf of the Semloh ws? on the job when the seismic disturbance occurred, and it took him several minutes min-utes to quiet the guests .f the house. The building was rocked violently, and several chandeliers were dam- j aged. An after Inspection showed that the new structure had not been damaged In the least by the quaki. Waltera Desert Pot. Colored waiters at the Knutsford lost no tline In leaxlng the building. Before Clerk Hawkins bad time to realize exactly what bad happened, the waiters had unceremoniously dropped their dishes and trays and fled pell mell through the main lobby of the hostelry, Tbe greatest damaire done In the district was at the home of F. A. Bit-n-r at Z$ Center street, where the vibration vi-bration lessened the luner brickwork of tlie front part of the house Just near Its apex. The bricks came rumbling rumb-ling down, crushing through the celling cell-ing of Mr. Ritnor's front parlor, and carrying lath and plaster with them. I fell to the floor. The piano barely I escaped damag- b.it other articles of t furniture were badly damaged. Tho bricks tore a hob- In the celling at least four fe't wide, and Mr. Bit nor estimates his loss at $300. Mr. Bllner. and his fanillv were at breskrast when the first and greatest shock came. After the house had stopped shaking, they wer startled to bear a deafening noise issuing from the from room, and rushing in saw the |