Individual Event Report
| Event #279 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs |
| Yakima - Accounts of tremors felt in Yakima may be garbled references to the western Washington quake of Feb. 25. However, the date, time, and day of week reported are not the same. The only record of three earthquakes felt in Yakima, supposedly on Feb. 26 1895, is a slightly garbled account in the Yakima Herald, which reports: "Clerk Charles Lombard, of the Yakima Indian Agency, writes as follows: "Three earthquake shocks occurred here on Thursday, the 26th ult. [Feb. 26 was a Tuesday - RSL], a very light one at 2:45 a.m. and two heavy ones at 3 and 3:20. The latter frightened the inhabitants, made the houses rock, and shook down a portion of the plastering in the new boarding house. It also wrenched the office sufficient to tear away the light wire fencing attached to the front. Mrs. George L. Mattoon was frightened into sickness, and has not as yet been able to recover from the dizziness with which she was attacked." |
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| N-WA - 2557 |
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N-WA - 2557 |
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Underlying Source Material
| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 2557 |
The Yakima Herald |
1895 |
Thursday, March 4, 1895, photocopy provided by Ted Repasky of the Yakama Indian Nation Water Resources Planning Program |
Transcription: DID YOU FEEL HER SHAKE - "All Nature Like an Earthquake, Travelling Round" -- Yakima Gets a Taste of It --- The Upheaval of 1874
The earthquake of Tuesday morning was felt all along the coast, according to dispatches, from Santa Ana, California, to North Yakima. Here it shook the houses and awakened the sleepers at about three o'clock. They felt vibrations distinctly from east to west. The Hog and Howlett families on the hill reported it in town, and Mr. Ross, who lives in the smaller of the brick Colwell buildings, felt it distinctly. At Fort Simcoe it is reported as so violent as to have shaken some of the little Indians out of bed in the dormitory of the school buildings. At The Dalles and at Portland it was distinctly felt, and most accounts mention three distinct shocks.
Clerk Charles Lombard, of the Yakima Indian Agency, writes as follows: "Three earthquake shocks occurred here on Thursday, the 26th ult., a very light one at 2:45 a.m. and two heavy ones at 3 and 3:20. The latter frightened the inhabitants, made the houses rock, and shook down a portion of the plastering in the new boarding house. It also wrenched the office sufficient to tear away the light wire fencing attached to the front. Mrs. George L. Mattoon was frightened into sickness, and has not as yet been able to recover from the dizziness with which she was attacked.
Central Washington has experienced several lively shakes, but the only ones of any importance were those of 1874, which H.H. Allen, B.E. Snipes, and other old-timers recall with some feeling of awe. Their effect in Yakima was not so severe as in the country to the north of us, where they changed the face of nature to a considerable extent. There were no less that sixty-four distinct shocks occurring at night in midsummer, and all along the upper Columbia could be heard the falling of rocks as mountains were torn down and hurled upon plain or into the river. Not since Washington has been known to white men has there been so great an earthquake within its confines. The indications of its destructiveness are still seen in great crevices, huge stone mountains of queer shape, and broken trails. A great mountain at Cheif Wapato John's ranch, near the north of the Chelan river, was rocked into the Columbia, damming that huge stream, flooding the chief's ranch, carrying away his house, and forcing him to fly for his life, It was a number of days before the waters washed away a portion of the rocks and receded to anywhere near their original level. Cheif John was so thoroughly scared that he never returned to his ranch. |
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