News: Local Woman In West Coast Earthquake 1949

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Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt <melissa@grandtfamily.com>
Date: 7/10/2009 at 20:29:51

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Williamsburg Journal-Tribune and Williamsburg Shopper, Consolidated; Williamsburg (Iowa Co.), Iowa, 21 April 1949.

LOCAL WOMAN IN WEST COAST EARTHQUAKE
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Mrs. Carl Querl Visiting Son In Washington Has Experience Novel To Her
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It was a thrilling and unusual experience for Mrs. Carl Querl of this city to be in the west region of the country April 8 when an earthquake visited Washington.

She is there visiting her son, Clifford Querl, and wife at Kent in that state. It was at 1 p.m. on the day of the quake that she and her daughter-in-law had finished papering the ceiling of the dining room when the earthquake developed.

The tremor shook the house, frightened the two children, tore the paper off the celing. The chairs in which the children were sitting rocked so from the shaking of the floor that they cried.

Dishes on the shelf of the stove were knocked onto the stove and the stove was moved from its position. The stove pipe was shaken loose. The chandeliers swayed to and fro.

The table lamp was knocked to the floor and the pictures fell from the walls. The dishes in the cupboard rattled. Mrs. Querl and daughter-in-law felt like persons doing the rhumba.

Her son reported on his arrival home that bricks were sheken loose from chimneys, some buildings were wrecked and several persons were injured in Kent.

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