The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-04
DO M Il S TIC.
From the Columbian New Haven't Register
WORE ABOUT THE EARTHQUAKE.

Ii would seem from the reports, that the earth
quake Of Sunday evening was more severely felt In
the southern part Of Fairfield county, in this State,
than in the vicinity Of New York city. The Nor
walk Banner says that the shock was felt IN Dan
bury, Ridgefeld, Redding, Weston, Trumbu New
Milford, Newton, New Canaan, Westport, SIAM
ford, Greenwich, and Bridgeport! In Norwalk, at
the time of the shock, not breath of air STIR
ring and the noise was like that of heavy thunder,
followed instantly by second, accompanied by
heavy rumbling sound which lasted nearly half a
minute causing the earth shake; houses and their
contents violently to tremble; and, in some parts of
the town, stone fences to fall to the ground an3he
people who had assembled for worship in the con-
gregationa church rushed out in great alarm, sup
posing that the building was about to fall. Some
persons say that fpo, and others that three distinct
shocks were perceptible In two or three instances,
the female portion of families tainted through feat
In Westport the conclusion was so great, that it
caused one ofthe church bells to strike co on three
tin,esi In Weston several stone fences partly
thrown down. In Bridgeport, says the Farmer, a
hoarse rumbling noise similar somewhat TO heavy
thunder, or the trundling of a thousand railroad
cars, very distinctly heard, accompanied by a
iremulous, vibrating motion, which seBsibly shook
the houses, and caused a rafting OF windows, look
ing glasses, crockery, stoyes;&c. The motion con-
tnued for about FIVE seconds. The editor says he
was sitting at his DESK and his wife had gone up
stairs to put the baby to-seep, when the explosion
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bed, he started to what the matter was and met
his wife coming down stairs, fearing some accident
had happened to him. This circumstance is mem
toned to show that the vibration WINS considerably
felt in that region. In Huntington, a clergyman
was reading at the desk, when his book was thrown
off the table. At Greenfield Hill milk-pans were
thrown down, and considerable CONSERVATION was
produced among the people. gentleman residing
there, mentions il az fact, perhaps connected with
this phenomenon, that on the Thursday evening pre-
vious, the springs and wells in that neghborhood
were all dry, for more than an hour and half :! the
water having apparently receded from them into the
earth II is great many years since such phe-
nomena have been observed in Connecticut.
We have since learned that the shock was felt in
most Of the towns Long Island, and at the same
time as in this Sate---quarter past six, p. m.
Capt Bill, of the schr. Alexander, who was sail
ing opposite Oyster Bay, Long Island 8 miles from
land, at quarter past 6, felt singular jarring mo-
ton of his vessel, as though she passed over some
solid substance in the water. The rurnbling noise
seemed to him in northerly direction.
Earthquakes usually take place in the months Of
October and November, and usually after a season
ofunusual heat and dryness. The great disaster at
Lisbon, in l755, occurred on the LIST November; and
beings persisted, was on the 26th October.
A correspondent of the Journal Of Commerce,
speaking of the recent earthquake and of tho nature
of the conyulsion, says:
81 notice in your journal, that some of those
who were out of doors pretended to say that the
shock was accompanied by brief electrical ereifa-
tion of the air; but of these appearances we could
get no confirmation from Others II is somewhat
remarkable that all accounts yet received of this
event, almost perfectly coincide to the time of the
occurrence, its continuance and the sounds attend
ing it, not excepting the electrical appearances
alluded TO in the above quotation. A friend of
mine, living in East Chester, describes the scene
follows: He was startled by an unusual sound,
while reading on Sunday evening, at precisely
quarter past six o'clock. His house, which is Of
stone was rocked by the violence Of the CONFUSION
Near his dwelling. are some large and precipitous
rocks, which, during the continuance Of the sound,
1.-TWO minutes) were surrounded with blue sui
phureous light. He describes the sound as similar
TO that which would be made by the rafting of at
least hundred carts over of our paved streets
His large Watchdog was SO terrified by the noise,
that he ran around the house as if mad. Others
living near the same location were much alarmed;
in some instances, their dwellings, were rocked most
violently. ! have been induced to enter into these
particulars, thinking they may be useful to the scien
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