FATE OF A SPLENDID BUILDING.
I NOVEL THEORY OF THE EARTH- ! QUAKE.
United Press A."-sociation—By E-lectric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 19. Tlie Grand Opera House and Claus Sprecklcs's office, the finest building of its kind in the West, were crushed like an egg-shell by the earthquake. The Western Union Telegraph Office was wrecked. Many millionaires' mansions were burnt. Professor Milne, seismic expert, of the Isle of Wight, suggest- that tho earthquako was possibly caused by the earth swinging a little off its axis, j the strain, of th© struggle to get back breaking th© earth's crust.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12484, 21 April 1906, Page 9
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