CE: We’ve had some interesting stories from other people we’ve talked to yesterday and today about the 1906 earthquake. Where were you on that morning?
WL: I was in San Rafael, sound asleep when I was pretty near shaken out of bed and when I got up, the chandelier was swinging around and so on. I looked out the window and I could see other people running out, so I headed downstairs and followed them out. Ethel was out here in San Anselmo and, at that time, the seminary was very badly damaged by the quake, being a stone building without any reinforcing. The big tower in Scott Hall went off, most of it through the roof. And there was a terrible mess.
CE: Was anybody injured as a result of that, at the seminary, Warren?
WL: The building was full of students. I say “full,” but it wasn’t full in those days because there was small enrollment. Those that were in there came running out through the stones and none of them got hit. And the stones were huge things, some of them as big as this desk.
