The 1872 North Cascades Earthquake
Washington Reporting Localities

Data Source             Date                            Code        Remarks


Pacific Christian
Advocate                  December 26, 1872  A               Letter of J.H. Wilbur












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.

EDITOR ADVOCATE:

On the night of the 14th, at about twenty minutes before ten o'clock, we were visited with an earthquake. It moved from south to north and lasted twelve seconds. The buildings here shook like leaves in a heavy wind. The doors, windows, and everything that was not a positive fixture, rattled, and seemed for a few moments to indicate that we were to have a general crash. After the first shock had passed and we were breathing more quietly, another, and still another came in quick succession, until five O'clock of the morning of the 15th, there was not half an hour passed without a visible tremb- ling of the earth. The night was one of uncommon brightness and stillness. Of all the calamities to which man is exposed, there are none of so fearful a character as earthquakes; none involves such terrible and devastating destruction to life and property. There are none of the approach of which he is less fore- warned, and none against which he can take fewer precautions. The mysteriousness of the danger, oppresses him with terror. He is ignorant in what form it is most imminent, or what direction to seek a way of escape. The earth is now hold- ing still, and quiet and contemplation is the order of the day. J. H. WILBUR

Data Source             Date                            Code        Remarks




Kalama Beacon              December  21,  1872   A
*Daily Oregonian          December  17,  1872    C            above does not substantiate
                                                                                               not felt report in this
                                                                                               source
*The Weekly Echo         December  19,  1872   C
*Washington Standard December  21,  1872   C








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.

Data Source             Date                            Code        Remarks




Olympia Transcript        January 4, 1873    A
Oregonian                        January 7, 1873    B








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.

KITTITAS VALLEY

PLEASANT GROVE, KITTITAS VALLEY December 14, 1872

Ed. Transcript:--This morning while seated near the fire writing, a severe shock of earthquake is being felt. At precisely 10 o'clock, p.m., old mother earth was being shaken from the west to the east, throwing all the poultry from their roosts, fright- ening dogs, cats, horses, and cattle, stopping clocks, and jarring chimneys from their foundation. Three shocks were felt, the first at 10 o'clock, lasting upwards of a minute; the other two were much lighter and of shorter duration. During the first shock, a low, rushing sound was heard as if a hurricane.-was raging--also a strong sulphur odor prevailed.

The weather has been rather mild and pleasant. Snow to the depth of an inch has fallen several times during the night, but the warm sun soon melted it during the day. This morning snow fell to the depth of two inches, which still lays upon the ground. The thermometer at present is at the freezing point.

Stock is doing well here, and the indications are that they will winter through very well.

Several more families have come into the valley within the last two weeks.

The saw mill will be in operation in about six weeks, and the photographic gallery of Mr. Frisby is now in full blast.

There are upwards of four hundred Chinamen working in the mines on the Weenache, forty miles north of this place, with good success.

More soon, W.R.L.



Kittitas, Washington
Oregonian
Jan. 7, 1873
Portland, Oregon

Data Source             Date                            Code        Remarks


Pacific Christian               December 26, 1872     B
Advocate
Washington Standard      January 11, 1873        B








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.

Rev. J. ii. B. Royal writes Dec. 16th: On the night of the 14th inst. near 10 o'clock, a severe shock of earthquake was felt throughout the Klickitat valley, the first shock lasting say one minute; The second and third a shorter time, accompanied with loud rumbling noise in the distance.




Klickitat Co., W.T.
Washington Standard January 11, 1873 p Olympia, Washington