December 15 (dawn) -17, 1872 No Specific Time Given

"... seldom if ever, have there been more shakes or quakes in any land in the same length of time than we have had here in the last four or five days."



WENATCHEE-CHELAN AREA, W.T.
Washington Standard
Olympia, Washington
Jan. 11, 1873 page 2

He declares that the shocks, which lasted until five o'clock Sunday morning, December 15th, were sixty-four in number, eight being severe.
Mr. McBride says the shocks continued at intervals until the 16th ult.

Dec. 17 to end of Dec., 1872 - No Specific Time Given

Dec 14, 1872 - March, 1873, dates vague, without definite times

Four slight shocks of earthquake have been felt here since Saturday night, the severest of which lasted about seven seconds.

Yale, B.C., January 14 "Four slight shocks of earthquake have been felt here since Saturday night, the severest of which lasted about seven seconds."

Spokesman Review
January 8, 1906
"...in 1872 a series of 60 distinct shocks was felt here."

Persistant Aftershock Activity: Continued Shocks at Lake Chelan, 1873

THE INDIAN PROPHET

Is still holding forth on the Wenatchee, and his efforts are having a salutary effect upon the natives. He has converted nearly all the tribe of Moses. They have resolved, almost to a man, not to -taste or handle whisky in any way. The name of the prophet is Patewie. He exhorts his hearers to quit gambling, stealing, lying, and drinking whisky. The earthquake and his teachings have caused many of the several tribes to mend their ways and lead more exemplary lives. They have a great deal- of the earthquake, and some of them have forsaken their old homes and come over to Kittitas to winter. The earth is still trembling and there is

AN OCCASIONAL SHAKE

There were six distinct shocks along about the last of October. They were so severe that it caused the tin-ware in a store fifteen miles distant to rattle quite furiously. There was an outburst of the pent up gases on the east side of the Columbia that scattered the sand and dust far and wide, and from the fissures there is now flowing three living springs of fresh cold water, all adjacent to each other. The earthquake occurred about a year ago, and the place where a large mountain is about one mile in length by from three to six hundred yards in width. Some of Wapato John's ranch has been destroyed. He lives in close proximity to the continuous rumbling. He sticks to his ranch, however, not withstanding many of his neighbors have fled to other parts where it is presumed there is greater safety. Some of the Indians look upon the dis- turbance in the bowels of the earth as a judgment sent upon them to punish them for their misdeeds.
Occasional



LAKE CHELAN, WASHINGTON
Walla Walla Union
Walla Walla, Washington
March 15, 1873

THE EARTHQUAKE's DELUGE
Mr. Covington, who has a trading post on the Columbia river, at White Stone, informs us that he spent the Winter in that country, and was there at the time of the earthquake last Fall. He says that he counted
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO DISTINCT SHOCKS,
continuing at irregular intervals for forty-two days. At one place he saw a crack in the surface of the earth which is now open for three feet wide at the top, and is from two to six feet deep. At another place he saw where the bank of the Columbia river had
CAVED OFF AND SETTLED DOWN
for two or three hundred yards in length, and for a width of about fifty yards. The mountain and cliffs were so shaken up and appear to be so greatly agitated and disturbed that large masses of rock are still constantly falling, tumbling and sliding down.



WALLA WALLA, W.T.
Walla Walla Union
Walla Walla, W.T.
June 14, 1873 page 3

STILL SHAKING -- A gentleman just down from the upper Columbia informs us that a week ago they had quite a severe shock of earth- quake, and that the earth has continued to shake and tremble at short intervals ever since the big shake up last fall. He says that there is a large number of Chinamen working on the bars along the Columbia, but that the mines are paying only small wages.