| The Olympia Pioneer Democrat says "although no damage was done that we are aware of, buildings and their loose contents were considerably shaken, and some of our more nervous neighbors no little alarmed." George Gibbs (1874) gives further information : "A very distinct shock was noticed at Olympia on the 2nd of April, 1859, at 2:30 A. M. Mr. James Tilton, Surveyor General of the Territory, describes its force as about equal to the the effect of a sixty-mile-an-hour gale upon a frame house. The crockery rattled, and many persons were awakened. There was but one shock, which lasted eight or ten seconds. The night was calm, and thr tremor well defined, undulatory, and suggestive of the motion of a ship at sea. A lady living in Olympia informed me that a pivot glass in her bedroom was made to swing so much as to attract her notice. The direction was S.W." Townley and Allen do not list this event. |
