The Brookdale – Santa Cruz Sentinel mutation revealed

When you are cut off from all sources of news, the world becomes a mysterious place. It was just a moment after the turn of the century, when the Brookdale Country Resort was shook by major BOOM at 5 in the morning. It was reasonable to conclude that there had been an explosion in the gunpowder works, which are the site of the Garden of Heaven today. However, the vibration seemed to lengthen and intensify, emptying the shelves and turning the furniture, so people thought it was a chain reaction to the explosions, creating several cascading effects.

Most of the cabins were flimsy, little things sitting on the ground without foundations, tumbling like a ship in a storm. If that didn’t fill one with dread, the noise of broken windows and smashed chimneys convinced people to flee to the streets in their nightwear. Chimneys fell in yards or through rooftops. The first event of strong vibration seemed to be around two to three minutes. But there were later aftershocks, so many people stopped counting and were afraid to return to their rooms. With one-tenth of the chimneys gone or unbalanced, fewer people can cook breakfast, so it’s cold, or at a later meal.

Several water tanks have been overturned. Most of them were collecting water straight from the streams, only to discover that Clear Creek didn’t live up to its name, and in fact all of the local streams were muddy and getting bigger in size.

After heavy industry and timber factories polluted the San Lorenzo River, regulations enacted at the turn of the century reduced river flooding, and fish hatchery in Brookdale helped restore fish numbers. (Contributed)

At the fish hatchery, small tidal waves into the ponds that carried small fish tossed thousands to the ground. Supervisor Frank Shipley helped his assistant throw water at them while sweeping them in their dust pans, then tossing them into their troughs. He managed to save most of them.

The first business was to find out if all of the neighbors had been rounded up, whether anyone had been injured or trapped, and to inquire if anyone had recently left town. Being such a small community, everyone seemed to be counted, and nobody was seriously injured. At the same time, they checked to make sure no lanterns were lit that morning, or that the fire was left unattended. The Brookdale Store had broken bottles and toppled canned goods, but with a little cleaning, it seemed like they could save enough for resale.

Telephone and telegraph wires are disrupted, courier service and newspapers are disrupted, and roads are closed due to landslides. Without news, it was debated whether this was a chain blast, but the consensus finally settled on an earthquake, one soon to be determined 1906 – a month and a half later, a powerful explosion occurred at Powderworks, which killed two factors.

Rumors spread throughout the day, some true and some wrong, of what was happening outside the San Lorenzo Valley. Some have gone to Boulder Creek in search of the news, only to find that city seems isolated. Down Main Street, the shops on the mountain side of the street were exposed to shattered windows, but not on the river bank of the street. East across the river, a barren hillside patch appears where part of the mountain has fallen into the San Lorenzo River. Then at around 11 a.m., news reached town of a devastating landslide on Isaiah Hartman’s land in Deer Creek.

Just minutes after the initial shock, workers at John & Louis Hoffman’s pallet mill heard a clank from afar. At the foot of a mountain a quarter of a mile away, they could see an avalanche pushing hundreds of redwood trees down the hill ahead. Canyon filled with debris 100 feet deep, and it seemed too far to reach the factory. But the roar intensified, and a 60-foot wall of rocks, trees and debris headed towards the mill, destroying buildings in its path. 29-year-old James Dollar ran to warn the women at the cooking house, and a tree killed him at the doorstep. The chef, Mrs. Kennedy of San Francisco, and her daughter ran outside, and two trees fell in place. Yet they emerged unscathed between the branches. In the logging room behind the factory, Paul Connick and FM Franklin ran out of their cabin to see a group of redwoods tumbling towards them. Connick eventually crawled out of the deciduous trees, but Franklin was killed.

Smoke and fire

Around the same time, dark smoke rose over the mountain from the northwest, spreading smoke and ash, and it was calculated that the Pescadero Forest was burning, above the San Mateo county line. From its scale, there were concerns if the forest fire was not stopped, it could spread to the forests of San Vicente and then Big Bassin Redwood State Park, at which point it would threaten Boulder Creek and Brookdale. While the dry season was still a month away, April was unappropriately hot, which worsened the firefighting conditions.

An emergency evacuation plan was needed. The South Pacific was providing free rail transportation to earthquake victims all over the Central Coast. While track conditions were not good outside of Watsonville, and collapsing tunnels cut the road to Los Gatos, the rail service between Boulder Creek and Santa Cruz was cut from four trains a day in each direction to three.

But a message was soon received that the fire was far from what they had thought, not even in San Mateo County. The terrible realization finally realized that it was the Paris of the West, San Francisco, that was on fire. Even 80 miles down the road, smoke from the San Francisco fire sometimes obscured the sun in Brookdale, or turned it into a bright red fireball in the fog. On the first two nights, the northwestern part of the sky in Brookdale lit a frightening red, reflecting the Great San Francisco fire. Many Brookdale residents with ties to the Bay area were horrified by the scene.

At around 2:30 in the afternoon of the first day, there were two heavy aftershocks, raising fears that the worst was far from over. Several light shocks lasted for several days afterward. All sawmills were closed after the earthquake, and within three days, all damaged chimneys were removed. The stores were able to salvage the merchandise they could buy, which was quickly purchased resulting in shortages, as people were worried that it would be some time before they were resupplied. IT Bloom returned to Boulder Creek the day after the earthquake. He was in a hotel in San Jose when the earthquake struck. The hotel collapsed, killing those in the adjacent rooms, but Plum was unharmed, and he joined a rescue team trapped around San Jose.

Rail freight

The earthquake caused an increase in demand for local raw materials, products, and manufactured goods. But San Lorenzo Valley suppliers complained that it now takes 10 days to two weeks to ship goods to the San Francisco Bay Area. With the Los Gatos route banned, passengers who left San Francisco at 7 a.m. did not reach Santa Cruz until 1:30 or 2:30 p.m. With the Pagaro River Bridge repaired, San Francisco is now 135 miles by rail instead of 81. For Shippers in the San Lorenzo Valley, the longest route required to move all cargo in a Santa Cruz warehouse from narrow carts to wide carriages. In addition, the earthquake caused a shortage of railroad cars in central California, so Santa Cruz used only 30 cars a day, when it actually needed six times that number.

The South Pacific kept freight rates to Santa Cruz the same for the longer Watsonville route. Meanwhile, it was having trouble opening two miles of tunnels at the summit, which continued to be refilled with debris. Likewise, two railroad scales were obstructing explosive shipments to San Francisco, which was in desperate need of demolishing construction hazards. So an emergency order was issued to convert the narrow gauge into wide scale until the powder works. Since the line really needed significant reconstruction, the South Pacific converted the entire mountain line to a standard scale.

Judge Logan

Brookdale resident Judge Logan wrote (paraphrased): It was once believed that the best use of cleared mountain lands of trees was fruit culture, making it a center for fruit production in the state. Summer homes were hardly a market, until the turn of the century saw an explosion of demand, mostly from city dwellers looking for a healthy alternative to unhealthy urban conditions. The San Lorenzo Valley has drawn attention for its attractive forests, crystal clear waters, warm dry air, diversions such as hunting, fishing, hiking, swimming, horseback riding, etc., and being only a few hours away from San Francisco by train.

But we must not just promote these attractions, we must preserve them. We must protect the forest by removing shrubs and litter that may contribute to a forest fire. We stopped the pollution of the river, reconstituted fish populations, and made this valley a mecca for fishermen in the west. We must voluntarily ban our depleted sardines, which are a food source for salmon, to allow it to return. Just as Santa Cruz has transformed itself into the only beach resort in Northern California, San Lorenzo Valley should also embody the natural and rustic qualities that will make us the preferred mountain resort on the coast.

Ross Eric Gibson is a former history columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Sentinel.

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