Earthquake Damage Mt. Carmel, Illinois

Photos by: Mary Seid

Map of southeastern Illinois showing the location of Mt. Carmel and the other cities where damage was sustained from the earthquake. Berry School, 1904, Mt. Carmel, Illinois. Damage to the school was to brick A-frame's front and back. Bricks litter the ground from the 1904 Berry School in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. Bricks and the wooden frame of the 1904 Berry School, Mt. Carmel, Illinois, were jarred loose. Patty Morland who lives next to the old school said, "It sounded like a train coming through my living room."
The old mortor of the 1904 Berry School, Mt. Carmel, Illinois, vibrated out leaving a crack down the wall. A brick chimmey collapsed on the 1904 Berry School, Mt. Carmel, Illinois. A wider view of the 1904 Berry School, Mt. Carmel, Illinois, shows the collapsed chimmey, bricks missing from the wall, and bricks missing from the a-frame. Bricks from the top of a building in downtown Mt. Carmel, Illinois, fell back onto the roof.
A tombstone in the Sandhill Cemetary, Ash and W. 3rd St., Mt. Carmel, Illinois, shifted down gradient with respect to its base. A tombstone in the Sandhill Cemetary, Ash and W. 3rd St., Mt. Carmel, Illinois, rotated counter clockwise with respect to a base with a peg. Some tombstones showed movement to the northwest or had a northwest shift in the Sandhill Cemetary on Ash and W. 3rd St, Mt. Carmel, Illinois. Another monument in the Sandhill Cemetary on Ash and W. 3rd St., Mt. Carmel, Illinois, showed a northwest shift. Most tombstones showed no signs of movement.
A porch roof flipped off a house in the 700 block of West 4th St., Mt. Carmel, Illinois.


Updated 09/09/09 SLD

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