9. I was then about 15 years of age and my home near Irvington. When the shock came I was alone in the house with my baby brother and my mother called to me to get the baby. I managed to get the child over my arm, face down, with a pillow on top, then falling and crawling I worked my way to the kitchen. My mother was on the ground, and every time she tried to get up she was thrown again. As I sat there I could see the ground in waves like the ocean. After the main shock I think we had a hundred shocks during the first 24 hours. Not a house was left with a chimney on it.-Y..-\"The piano was out of the room and the safe had broken through the wall. Intensity Hayward fault, San Leandro, Calif., 1869