HOW IF YOU SEE THE HOUSE BEGIN TO FALL SIDEWAY ? This is Mr.West's experience. Share

I had just got into bed about half past eleven when I felt the tremor. The bed started to tremble and I noticed the electric light,which hung from the ceiling, was swaying.

Then I got out of bed quickly and went to look out of the window. As I looked I saw the house opposite begin to fall sideways. Then I was realized what was happening, I look my dressing gown and rushed out into the garden.

I was alone in the house. My wife and children had gone to my mother-in-law.

For three or four minutes, I heard a terrible noise of walls falling down, and people screaming, and clouds of dust in the air. Then, the trembling stopped.

There were about fifty persons had been killed and more than two hundred injured. The damage to property was considerable, and some three hundred houses would have to be complitely rebuilt.