Earthquake Shakes the Coast Steamer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · May 2, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 18.

Earthquake Shakes the Coast Steamer

It is reported by the captain of the coast steamer Alliance that the light-house at Point Arena was destroyed by the earthquake. Thus the shock was quite severe for three hundred miles north and south. Altho a comparatively narrow strip inland was affected, no one knows how far it extended under the ocean. The same captain reports that while off Eureka that morning his vessel was severely shaken. He thought that it must have struck bottom, or some uncharted obstruction; but on making soundings he found that he was in twelve fathoms of water.