The main altar was overthrown, several of the figures broken, the steeple toppled over and crashed to the ground, and the sacristy walls were badly cracked.

The padres' house as well as all the other buildings suffered.
One of the adjuncts to San Gabriel was _El Molino Viejo_,--the old mill.
Indeed there were _two_ old mills, the first one, however, built in Padre Zalvidea's time, in 1810 to 1812, being the one that now remains.
It is about two miles from the Mission.

It had to be abandoned on account of faulty location.

Being built on the hillside, its west main wall was the wall of the deep funnel-shaped cisterns which furnished the water head.

This made the interior damp.