The Yazoo Democrat., 1851-06-25
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NOTICE. aais ~ .l.isw
AT Jim Paskars, Grocery Il . oeioek On
Saturday next will expose an old sow. and !
passle Of pigs more or less---win appasrsas
the Law directto b1 dislasnt 1 Ior rent
+ .a l.'s JxxE SHORT. Constable.
THE EARTHQU AXE IN chill.
/ The. Nationsl Inlslligencer publishes lhe
following exiTacS tom q letter written by
Lieut.. j. GIliss, US. Navy. 10 6 friend 10
Washington. dated u. 8. n. Astronomical
Expedition, Santiago de- Chill, April sl22d
1881. We have already published an az.
count OF the earthquake in Chill, but there
q much in the narrative of Lieuts Gilisa
that 10 new. and very interesting. He says.
"You will no d0ub. be interested to learn
that We have escaped. uninjured, the most
severe earthquake which has been expert.
ehced in Central Chill since that Of 1922.
Il occurred on the morning Of the 9 = inst3
commencing q: s O'clodk mean time wit h
much violence, and afer It's usual warning
noise.
One Of The blind spells to which I have
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been occasionally snqject had left me with
severe headache. and / had not been long
asleep when the firsl strike startled me.
Il IL not easYtO collect ones faculties at such
a brief summons ;and though. by habit, such
Ipostion was (aken, as enabled me TO en-
brace in the aams vie vi my little mirror,
the pan OF water on the washstand, and
the opposite roofs, nearly One>haIfthe phe-
nomema had passed before the conscious
ness was fully restored. Ia the hops thai
we may sometime obtain such observations
elsewhere as viii enable Us 10 determine
tie velocity with which the earth moves,
each one has Immediate recourse 10 his
watch, noting the second at which ever,
phase occurs; and subsequently, comparing
the watch with ChrOnometer kept in our
residence. On this occasion, Lieut. Nc
Rae had sprung 10 the chronometer al
once, and escaped from his room with it.
For eighteen seconds tie motion was q vIo.
lent tremor of small amplitude. starting the.
walls and tiles, but breaking nothing. which
can only account for by the rapidly with
which the atoms in the surface Of the earth
| we're disturbed; for, if one may estimate by
! botily sens stions, the shaking during these
I aighisen seconds was certainly as great as
on the 9th of December, and yet the effects
were not hing like those then produced. As
| [ stood Watching the paintings on the paper
Of the opposite wall pass across the mirror,
an 1 the tiles in front dancing like ths waves
or a cross Sc a, there was sudden increase
IN the violence Of the earth storm, and the
chamber dOors'. bOlted aud locked, were
flung wide open, displaying the lille parIorI
illed with dust ana rubbish. At this. time
the shrieks Of the people in the street were
most Distressing, and TIE roar of the penl
up disturbing agent as it moved around
most Internal. As the ceiling over head
was cracking, and the tiles falling rapidly
IN the patio, could only find shelter under
The Intel Of the outside door; but at the mo-
ment of getting there, the wall swung away
far enough to show sky over head, at the
same lime pouring down a mass Of rubbish
which nearly blinded me-
| The motion was now one of oscillation rap.
I'd and abrupt, continuing for twenty five
seconds, after which the agitation gradual-
| ly subsidized, and at last measurabIy ceased.
I say measurably; for. like a leusely dra wn
cOro suddenly struck, The vibration of the
earth continued for nearly two hours after.
r
and We have the recorded times of eighteen
separate earthquakes between the grea,
shock and m dRight, besides host Of lesser
ones, and . similar vibration TO that in the
morning. Up to this date they have NOT
ce sed, there having been from one TO Ave,
" six shocks Of small violence every day,
keeping up the excitement and consternae
lion among all classes of society. !.
"On ascending Santa Lucia, Immediately
il was found that the rocky mass had been
broken across betwe en- the castle and the
observatory. leaving crevasse which Lieut.
McRae traced more than sixty feet The
lpiers supporting ihe meridian circle are com
posed OF three blocks, each secured togeIh
Ter bY YhYdfablic cement, and set with the
same tnatefiatoa base which rests on the
inalivs porphery. The joint to the upper
!. blocka of the west pier was opened, the
block, 40 doubt. rocked, and the whole pier
was probably moved TO the south, throwing
r all the micrdmelers outOf focus. No injury
/ was done In thea instrument, nonestO 8 the
v eqlaloFiaL nor was the clock stopped,
Though every other in the city was. Al the
II ouse a mountain barometer was thrown
: from the wsil and brJken. and The nSetcuFy
& tossed out ofa cup used as d cistsrn ofsthss
Standard tHasslef's conslrnclion.l until
: the surface was Ia inch below its rim
& Thsse are the only injuries We have Eaceiv.
} ID, though the necessity of moving from the
!. hOuse, on account Of ils unsafe condition,
.liwilld entail expense on us Enthusiastically 90
,lswsllas to the e1pedition, whose dimipishing
funds can bady. heari II. . .ss,s6 4
y s.Tn the vicinity the destruclion ot proper.
ty has heeil very great, no house having
escapsd wiehoulsfs rents il wallis lose q para
. psls, andtilss q very great .eAleuss Every
/ arci lnslho Calhedral has been sprppg, ane
llho hagstonaa aptlled rendering j probable