People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — CITIES WELL SHAKEN. [ARTICLE]

CITIES WELL SHAKEN.

Earthquake Nearly Destroys a Town in Japan—California Visited. London, Oct. 24.—Advices from Tokio to the Central News state that the town of Sakaite in the province of Akita was visited by a violent earthquake Monday evening ahd almost entirely destroyed. Many of the residents of the town were killed and a large number injured. San Franwsco, Oct. 24. —Despatches received in this city Tuesday evening show that southern California was shaken by several earthquake shocks shortly after 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. At Los Angeles they were light and scarcely noticed, but at Oceanside, Santa Ana, San Diego and other places the troubles were more severe and drove people from the large buildings into the streets. Windows were broken and clocks stopped at San Diego, and a telephone message received there from Campo, a small town o-n the Mexican border 55 miles east, sp.ys the shocks were very severe, but the damage was not serious. Seismic disturbances were heaviest at San Juan Capistrano, where, besides the breaking of windows, crockery of all descriptions was shattered in many houses, and the old mission bells tolled in low tones. The vibrations were from northeast to southwest, and each shock was of about a minute’s duration.