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4/ the series of quakes very well
though many stores & houses in
Palo Alto had not. After a few
days she invited us to stay with
her until we could get transportation
to So. Calif. This took
over a week before the rail-road
tracks were straightened
and otherwise repaired.

Imediately after the main
quake, Dr Branner, head of the
Geology Dept. at Stanford, gathered
up some of his students and they
went out to trace the fault
movement by noting the way
the fences, roads, etc were
displaced out of line. The San
Andreas fault, we were told,
goes northwest 3 1/2 miles from
the University buildings whereas
it lies 50 miles from the main
part of San Francisco as it was
in that year. Dr. Branner and his
students found some places also
where the ground had even been
split open for some feet.

The University closed that
day, of course, until the following
September. We were able finally to get
a train ride to San Jose and then
took another train to Los Angeles.

Grace L. Crawford.