EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
SAN FRANCISCO ALARMED. CITIZENS SEIZED WITH PANIC. NO DAMAGE DONE. (Received 3, 8.5. a.m.) New York, July 2. Earthquakes in Central California and Western Nevada did trivial damage. A panic seized the citizens of San Francisco and Santa Rosa, who made a pallmell rush from large buildings. At San Francisco the telephone and telegraph operators lied from their posts, and the services were suspended- until they realised that the danger was past. At a lodginghouse an inmate fell dead with fright. The Judge, jury, and attorneys sitting in the State Court at Carson City, fled from the Courthouse, fearit would collapse. Reno experienced the shock.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 112, 3 July 1911, Page 5
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