. The Open court. ing noise as of distant thunder. Two mareswith young colts were running and whinnying in an adjacent lot,in alarm as though dogs were after them. Dogs were there, butthey too gave unusual warning of danger. At my bed jumpedfrom under me, the movement starting from a standstill. The force seemed to raise up the house and turn it to theright upward and left downward, with tremendous power, so for-cible as to tear me loose from the door frame to which I was clingingwith both hands, my wife holding around my waist. We both could see down Alameda Street, looking eastward,and
. The Open court. ing noise as of distant thunder. Two mareswith young colts were running and whinnying in an adjacent lot,in alarm as though dogs were after them. Dogs were there, butthey too gave unusual warning of danger. At my bed jumpedfrom under me, the movement starting from a standstill. The force seemed to raise up the house and turn it to theright upward and left downward, with tremendous power, so for-cible as to tear me loose from the door frame to which I was clingingwith both hands, my wife holding around my waist. We both could see down Alameda Street, looking eastward,and we both saw the whole street ablaze with fire, it being of abeautiful rainbow color, but faint. We passed out into the streetand met a man who asked, did you see the fire in Alameda street?An hour later a friend told me that the ground all around was ablaze of fire. Now this no doubt was an electrical display, for had gas beenon fire all along the street, the houses would have been ignited. And 402 THE OPEN THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. 403 a letter from a point north of San Francisco describes blue lightsas flickering like an Aurora, over wide area of marsh land, with atroubled surface of adjoining water. And can it be possible that the giant electricity took part in thevast seismic turbulence? I have a large collection of descriptions which must be writer scarcely knows which one of the multitude of theoriesregarding the cause of earthquakes to adopt. Pent up steam, gases, chemical activity, faults, shrinking,warping, crumpling of strata, contracting of the external shell onthe liquid interior, settling, rising and distortion, together withsunspots, causing a variation in the earths electrical potential andmagnetic, and a dozen other hypotheses are found in the these I have decided to adopt the doctrine of faults in thisearthquake. There are rents, breaks, cracks and seams in the rock strataof the earth. There is an ancient fault in Californ
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