PREVIOUS EARTHQUAKES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12483, 20 April 1906, Page 8

PREVIOUS EARTHQUAKES.

Like ell the rest of tfe> ***&,&*s? California' vg liable to .Vtna» APtffgßf; ances, and this - considerable influence in ie t*J£f)9JH£l? 1 settlement of tho State..- •„.• been known, since the conqucef|w|P'Nt country by the Ameridaira, so WHEMI as the spring and summer of -lWffilwK destruction of life at tluat ! hare been largo had California weil thickly populated as it is now. '?3«M ing the whole of May in tihat Y&WjM southern part of the State was TOoKg|| agitated, and tho disturbances jpBI ' J tinued throughout the summer XsjpW- _ frequent and violent wore thd'mg| that the peoplo abandoned their boelβ, and elept on the ground. In SemV her the missions of San Juan OmM ano and La Puriflime, were dwtjrlOTW and thirty or forty persons were f »ll|| at tho former. Ihcre was a able number at Purisima, but'hoWJßwe was not ascertained. At SaRte7AS bara a tidal wave rushed into 'wMM terior, but the inhabitants fled to/Jj iacent heights and ©scaped deetruofiM In 1808, in June and July, numerous shocks at the 'Frieco. . On October Bth, 18B6» ; -iS whole region adjacent to the «™W£i! 'Frisco was violently disturbed, h»jwj a building of brick or stone in *Wffi ' escaping injury. Few lives were M|K In 1872 the whole Sierra NevaWßl most violently shaken. ii The small eettlemerit of in Owen's Valley, at the east the mountains, was completely ished, and between twenty end people wero killetl; Lighter «WJM6 continued to be felt for tw>. *r JSrJMjfy months after. TJicro are ranges long and straight * rooks which have been earthquakes in modern times- ."-fvfl