p. 17 | Earthquake Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · May 3, 1906

Earthquake Notes

IN a letter written at the Glendale Sanitarium, April 20, Elder W. C. White says: “Yesterday afternoon I received a letter from May, telling us that the houses were much shaken in the Napa Valley, and many chimneys thrown down. She said nothing about the [St. Helena] Sanitarium; therefore we conclude that it has not suffered more than the homes. No one was hurt in our ‘Elmshaven’ buildings. . . . Yesterday afternoon, at 12:35, there was a distinct shock here in Los Angeles. Our people were assembled in the meeting-house on Carr Street. The house was just comfortably filled. We felt a little tremble, then a heaving, and then a shake. Half of the audience rose, and some rushed to the doors; but it was soon over—so soon that the people were persuaded to take their seats, and the business went on.”

Writing from St. Helena on April 20, Brother L. M. Bowen, business manager of the sanitarium at that place, says: “The restaurant [in San Francisco] was practically uninjured by the earthquake, but caught fire about ten o’clock. Brother Fulton and his faithful workers served a very heavy breakfast, as this was the last restaurant to close. All our people and workers, as far as I have learned, have escaped. Some have been injured, but no one fatally. The treatment rooms and food store were burned Thursday morning about four o’clock. Up to yesterday morning about eleven o’clock the fire had not reached Dr. Sanderson’s, but from recent reports I learn that all that part of the city was also burned. While the shock here was very severe, the damage was small. The food factory is in working order, and the damage to the sanitarium will not exceed two hundred dollars.”

It is surprising that no report is received from Healdsburg, either directly or indirectly. It is possibly safe to regard no news as good news, and we hope that the sequel will justify this interpretation of the silence.