El Paso.--At El Paso chairs moved, lights swayed, some persons left houses, and animals were disturbed. Guests in the upper stories of hotels were particularly disturbed bt the swaying motion. No actual damage to buildings seems to have occurred although some minor damage to adobe houses is reported. President J. B. Barry reports clock out of plumb. Mr. M.B. Arick who was on the sixteenth floor of a hotel at El Paso writes as follows: "My wife and I were awakened bt the tremor; the people in all the adjoining rooms were also awakened. The tremor was accompanied by a rumbling sound which we attributed to sash weights shaking. The hotel in the upper stories swayed over 2 feet from side to side, the direction of movement being apparently about northwest-southest. The chandeliers in the center of the room swung from side to side. A mirror suspended on the south wall swung in an arc which could be measured bt the scratches on the wall. The arc measured 6 feet. No objects in the hotel were damaged, and, except for a few dishes which were shaken from racks, no damage was reported in El Paso."

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