ss seriously. The damage to the buildings is estimated
by President Jordan to amount to about $4,000,000.
The memorial church, with its twelve marble figures of the apostles,
each weighing two tons, was badly injured by the fall of its Gothic
spire, which crashed through the roof and demolished much of the
interior; the great entrance archway was split in twain and wrecked; so,
too, were the library, the gymnasium and the power house. A number of
other buildings in the outer quadrangle and some of the small workshops
were seriously damaged.
Encina Hall and the inner quadrangle were practically uninjured, and the
bulk of the books, collections and apparatus escaped damage.
Sacramento, together with all the smaller cities and towns that dot the
great Sacramento Valley for a distance fifty miles south and 150 miles
north of the capital, escaped without injury, not a single pane of glass
being broken or a brick displaced in Sacramento and no injury done in
the other places, they lying eastward of the seat of serious earthquake
activity.
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara escaped with a slight trembling; Stockton,
103 miles north of San Francisco, felt a severe shock and the Santa Fe
bridge over the San Joaquin River at this point settled several inches.
The only place in Southern California that suffered was Brawley, a small
town lying 120 miles south of Los Angeles, about 100 buildings in the
town and the surrounding valley being injured, though none of them were
destroyed.
THE EARTHQUAKE AT OTHER CITIES.
At Alameda, on the bay opposite San Francisco, a score of chimneys were
shaken down and other injuries done. Railroad tracks were twisted, and
over 600 feet of track of the Oakland Transit Company's railway sank
four feet. The total damage done amounted to probably $200,000, but no
lives were lost. Tomales, a place of 350 inhabitants, was left a pile of
ruins.
At Los Panos several buildings were wrecked, causing damage to the
extent of $75,000, but no lives were lost.
At Loma Prieta the earthquake caused a mine house to slip down the side
of a mountain, ten men being buried in the ruins.
Fort Bragg, one of the principal lumbering towns in Mendocino County,
was practically wiped out by fire following the earthquake, but out of a
population of 5,000 only one was killed, though scores were injured.
The town of Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, suffered
considerable damage from twisted structur
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