The 1872 North Cascades Earthquake - WASHINGTON (COLFAX) REPORTING LOCALITIES


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ACCOUNTS EVALUATED
Colfax, Wash. 


Data Source	Date			Code	Remarks


Oregonian	            January 17, 1873	B	Account pertinent to aftershocks.
Walla Walla Union           February  1, 1873 [NOT IN WESTON REPORT - IN COOMBS REPT ONLY - RSL 8/6/1999]




A.  Period Account:  Primary source for evaluation of intensity or felt report.


B.  Period Account:  Insufficient data to evaluate intensity.


C.  Period Account:  Item appearing as dispatch, summary or brief des-
                     cription or duplicate data with more complete
                     data available in other sources.


D.  Later descriptive account identified with period sources.


E.  Later descriptive account not confirmed in period documentary sources.
*Designates duplicate data not included in compilation.


Colfax, Washington
Oregonian
January 17, 1873 p. 1
Portland, Oregon

Colfax
A private letter dated Jan. 2 has the follow- ing: "An occasional shock continues to be felt in this vicinity; last Sunday morning at 10 o'clock we were treated to quite a severe shock of earthquake - so great was the shock that it crushed the crust of snow for nearly a mile in length.