This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: …sess., 1900, p. 123. 8 Journal, 1899, and personal communication. 9 Camicia, L. S., and Glesener, Philip, reply to earthquake circular, 1908. i Seattle Daily Times, Sept. 21 and 29, 1899, reprinted in Weekly Times, Sept. 27 and Oct. 4, 18G9. A San Francisco paper, 1899; exact date of clipping unknown. - Explorations in and about Cook Inlet, 1899: Rept. 1023, 56th Cong., 1st sess., 1900, p. 715. 12 Sitka Alaskan, Nov. 4,1899. iy Record of II. S. Tibbey, submitted to the authors. i New York Evening Post, Sept, 26, 1899. Seattle Weekly Times, Oct. 4, 1899. On the day of the second heavy earthquake (September 10) the United States revenue cutter McCulloch 1 was off Unga Island and experienced quite a hard southeast storm with heavy cross swells. Capt. Coulson would not say that the storm was attributable to the shock, as such storms were customary at this time of year. Andrew Brown/ of Seattle, was on the steamer Alliance between Kodiak and Sitka during this earthquake, and reports the worst storm he had experienced in 25 years in the north Pacific Ocean. It seems probable that all these heavy storms, on this rather stormy coast and at a stormy time of the year (near the autumn equinox), have a purely accidental relationship to the seismic activity. They are mentioned because they have been commonly associated in the press and in the popular mind with these earthquakes. There is no reason for such association. Glacier Bay.–In the region near Muir Glacier the earthquakes were severely felt, according to Mr. Buschmann, the cannery superintendent at Bartlett Bay, in 1899. Unfortunately, no direct observation of the effects of the shocks upon the glaciers was made; but the observations by competent glaciologists before the shocks, and by other obs…
