New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-28
EARTUOUAKE PHENOMENA.

To the fdtfcrQ Ire " T. ifHTf"c
SIR: have read in this morning TRIBUNE Mr. Bayard
Tayors account OF the earthquakes felt in China in April
1853 and have noticed particularly the mention made OF
hairs being found protrudng from the earth the morning
succeeding the earthquake and that such the usual
effect of earthquakes in China In my vast collection OF
Earthquake Memoranda lone index page OF which send
YOU is record of the same phenomena attending an
earthquake at Chauban Siam, the 18Th of May 1879,
in the words following: First violent shock OF earth
quake was felt accompanied with tremendous noise and
"subterranean roarngs The doors and partitions OF the
"houses were cracked and strained" But more extra
ordinary than all, ii says
During the shock, there Spontaneously came out OF
the ground species OF human hairs, IN almost every
placein the b1aars in the roads in the fields aud the
most arid places. These hairs, which are pretty long,
stand upright and adhere strongly to the ground When
they are burned they twist like human hairs and have
burned smell which makes it TO be believed that they are
really hairs they all appeared IN the twnkng OF an eye
during the earthquake" 800
AT the time of the earthquakes in Siam in May 1sis,
the earth and its atmosphere in both the eastern and
western hemispheres, greatly disturbed At Louis
vlle Ky on the 10Th of that month, cloud of white
flies fell from the atmosphere at Mat place Inc account
is as follows .
them for a snow squal They were white and fell i'll
countless billions of billions 1t was wonderful vista
on truly wonderful o.,.
Ear;hquakes are OF annual between the 18th
and 18th of April and extensively affect the thin strata OF
breahabe atmosphere which moves over and upon the
earths crust.
II s from long continued and carefully recorded obser
vatons made with instruments connected with both the
earth and its atmosphere, that am enabled to determine
by observation the OF distant earhquakes-
like in China they produce hair from The ground 50 here
they produce storms hurricanes thunder ana light
ming killing ross and other phenomena.
Such the extraordinary condition OF the atmosphere
here between the 18th and 18th OF April OF the present
wear that on the morning of the 10Th OF that month adj
dressed three communications on the subject 10 three news
papers in Newiork viz The Jonrnaf Of Co"merce me
A. nd ~, IN WA nuhshai
in The Courier the morning Of the 2Oth, and IN Ihe
Herald the morning OF the 2lst 1t was not think,
published in The JGrrHal G Commerce. mat communca
ton was lengthy and embraced much detail have copied
the following applicable to the earthquakes IN CHINA;
IL have thus hastily thrown together the above memo,
randa TO show that the OF earthquakes ami
between the 18th and 18th OF April are not so
great wonder but the wsnder that people forget the
almost uniform occurrence of such yistatOns within the
cycle of DAYS named. These storms wnlch iurnshcd
the the ground were the result Oh eafti-
quakes, of which we may expect to hear, ~c.
On the 18th April in the morning. an earthquake was
felt at San Salvador Central America On the morning
of the l4h two shocks of earthquake were felt at san
Francisco and on the tth IN me evening tne cry OF oah
Salvador was wholly destroyed by an earthquake Meas
urng the degrees longitude the surface with the clock
time find the path OF the earthquakes and their near
connections In time. $3.50 -,
written and for sake of saving mental labor copy as fol-
lows
most fearful array of memoranda OF wonderful phenomena
within these six evenul days Earthquakes terrific thun-
der- fierce and most vivid ghnings blazing auroras tor
nadoes hurricanes of OF vast extent OF surface
and of unusual depth hail, rain and gales OF wind Killing
FROST all accompanied by equbrams OF temperature OF
such long continuance and such frequency OF occurrence
that il almost seemed that the earth its commissions had
ceased On single day the l4th four yes
SELF and that mysterious ocean current known 40
the Gulf Stream although far apart were struck by ght
nirg two were set fire, one, with It's cargo, consumed,
and part the cargo the other was thrown overheard
and the residue with the vessel sunk in shallow wa
ter, TO 1t from the flames 50,
On the 3th l4h and 18TH the ocean sweuned with ice
berps-it seemed as if the whole Arctic had broken Its
crystal fasenng the fountains OF the great deep were
broken up On the 10TH 18th and lcth the broad ocean
WAS sea of troubleits waves ran mountains high and
fierce and stormy winds swept It's surface az with bosom
of destruction hundreds went beneath the brny wave
10 rise no more until shall be dried up and the dead
raised in Judgment. In these three days wide spread
SHOWS maned the NORTH and of unusual depths while in
the south the 10 the fields OF vegetation
deyouring fame. What a marshalng Of the elements
human pride was hubled the rich landlord of San Saliva
dor was in seconds of time stripped Of all his wealth
the rich merchant and the prnce underwater could hard
" count up their losses fast they chronced by
the public journals and the opuen Louisiana planter
the morning OF the 18th, TO behold his vast crops IN
nrosuect one vast ruin" T.. MERRIAM.
York June n lSSi