1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

548 THE SCROLL.flocking from houses and gathering in groups surveying thewrecks and wondering if it were all over. For several nightsnone ventured to sleep indoors and "fraternity row" presenteda picturesque sight at "taps" and at "reveille."While the university has suffered a severe financial loss yetthe situation is not hopeless. Fortunately our working plantwas the least injured. The old buildings, the inner quadrangle,were uninjured, the damage being confined entirely to thenew structures of the outer quadrangle and to the showbuildings." The Memorial Church, erected by Mrs. Stanfordout. of her personal fortune, as a memorial to her husband,is practically demolished, the tower crashing throughthe roof, carrying Ijoth galleries down and completely wreckingthe interior of the church.The Memorial Arch, which was one hundred feet high andninety feet wide, was broken off within fifteen feet of the top.From that point nearly to the base on either side it was splitapart, large stones being broken in pieces.The new wings of the Museum were shattered and manyrare and valuable collections have been lost. The new libraryand new gymnasium were completely wrecked.. Fortunately,neither of these buildings had been occupied, the interiorfinishings not being completed. The gateway at theentrance to the university was lei?eled to the ground. EncinaHall, the boys' dormitory, was badly shattered, the greatestdamage resulting from falling chimneys. One of thesecarrying ten tons of rock crashed through the roof, cuttingout the space of one room as though it had been cut with asaw, and then carried every room below in the same manner,ending only when it had reached the basement. Strange asit may seem, the men on the fourth floor were found at thebottom of the heap and stranger still, only one of the eightmen in these rooms was 'Killed.Our first impression was that our own house would be condemned.It is the old mission style of architecture with out-'side plastered walls. The plaster inside and out was completelydemolished, the fire-place in the smoking room iscondemned and will have to be rebuilt. All chimneys aregone,and one, in falling, crashed through the room andlanded in the smoking room on the first floor. The rear ofthe house is decidedly out of plumb. In fact, t?he entirehouse settled more or less in the' first few days following theearthquake. A competent engineer has investigated the houseand reports that the building is safe and can be repaired at a