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to Mr. J. G. Chamberlain had all the chimneys but one dis-
lodged, and one of the end houses had lost its gable, leaving
the interior exposed. At the gas works the greater part of
the circular brick shaft was thrown down.
In the neighbourhood of the Quay the following cases
of damage were noted :—Trinity House and adjoining premises
(occupied by Messrs. George Harvey and Son and Mr.
Bartlett), chimneys thrown through roof into interior, house
unroofed, gable thrown down, walls cracked and much of the
brickwork thrown down from the upper portions of the walls
beneath the roof. At the rear of these premises Mr. D. Ham's
yard was filled with wreckage ; the owner was in the yard at
the time and compared the sound to " the rush of a train
underground." Quay House; all chimneys down. Mr. H. T.
Cuthbert, yacht decorator; chimneys fallen through roof,
walls cracked, two panes of glass in a window broken; the
house temporarily abandoned.
Near Anchor Corner much damage was sustained by Mr.
Juby and Mr. Moore, three chimneys at the latter premises
breaking through the roof, and some of the masonry knocking
down and severely bruising Mr. Moore's son, who was in the
garden at the time. Two or three other cases of slight per-
sonal injury are reported to have occurred in the village. In
Bath Street a house occupied by Mr. J. Barr was stripped of
its chimney and the whole gable thrown down. Many houses
in Brook Street were unroofed and otherwise damaged. Mr.
W. H. Bird, of Buckhurst Hill, who visited the earthquake
district the day after the shock, informed me that at
Wivenhoe he observed a terrace of eight or ten houses,
running E. and W., in which not a single chimney was left
standing ; all had been broken off level with the roof and had
fallen towards the N. At the back of the Quay we noticed a
row of four small cottages, which had lost their chimneys in
a somewhat remarkable manner. The cottages were in a
line N.E. and S.W., a low, slate-roofed outhouse projecting
from the end of each cottage in a north-westerly direction.
The chimney at the end of the roof, just over the outhouse,
had in each cottage been thrown down, falling nearly on to