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in the hall we saw that one of the tall chimneys had fallen through the roof and down through the three-floor single rooms of the building to the basement. Fortunately none of the girls occupying these rooms were injured, though one of the similar chimneys at Encina Hall killed the student who was the waiter at our table in the Roble Hall dining room. He was a well-liked young junior student.

Muriel and I and other girls on our floor helped the girl occupying the single room opposite ours struggle up the sloping floor. Many quakes occurred afterwards for several days. Students from Encina and other halls rushed over, including Oscar, to see if we are O.K.

The only other casualty was the engineer at the University heating plant. After rushing out of the building he returned to shut off something, and as he got out of the building again the tall chimney of the plant fell on him and crushed him. Since the San Andreas fault is only three and half miles from the University it did a lot of damage to the newer buildings (not to the Quad) but to the new library and chemistry buildings, the entry gates to the street leading up to the University, the 100 ft. high arch leading into the main area (inner Quad as it was called) and to the steeple and front of the church, or chapel as we called it. The chapel (it had a beautiful interior) had been dedicated just the Sunday before when a huge crowd attended the services. Had the quake occurred at that time hundreds of people would have been killed for the tall steeple fell down into the central part of the chapel destroying the altar backed by statues of Jesus and his twelve apostles as well. It is strange but the severest quakes in California during my lifetime have always occurred early in the morning about daylight or in the early evening about sunset time.

Early after the 1906 quake occurred, Dr. Branner, head of the geology department, took a bunch of his students out to the fault to observe the movements it had made in roads, fences, etc. They traced the fault thus for quite a distance. The store fronts on the main street in Palo Alto were almost all shaken from the buildings and fell into the street. The students at Roble Hall, and I expect at Encina Hall also, slept on the lawn for several nights as the quakes continued. Oscar and I were very fortunate after the third night, for earlier in the year Charlotte Suit's mother had moved to Palo Alto, and, as her house was not damaged, she invited Muriel, Oscar and me to stay with her and Charlotte and Clarence until we could get down to our homes in Santa Monica. This took time for the Southern Pacific trains were not running for fully a week after the quake. Meanwhile the Suit's house was definitely crowded. Mail somehow got through, and the first letter from my mother said, "Have you heard of the terrible quake?" Evidently, as usual, she hadn't read the Southern California