New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-30
PARTICULARS OF THE BALTIMORE
EARTHQUAKE.

We End the following account Of the late earth
Quake. In TIE Baltimore american Of June p:
AT about Is minutes past l2oolock yesterday NOM
ing our citizens aroused from their sum ,ers ~
appars nj explosion and rumbhng nose which -
by supposed 10 be explosion OF poWder nii'
magazine and by others 10 have bern the eieot of
an earthquake. Anxious inquiry was made IN al a.
rectous in The morning. but it was soon ssc6taineo
that the powdei-mills, both ON tie Liberty koad
known as Janeson's and those of Messrs. Beatty on
the Susquehanna Railroad were ell in good order and
that the shaking Of The earth proceeded from explo-
sion In nh hitter magazine than those constructed by
human agency. We since learn that Jamesons mills
on the Liberty Road arc owned by Mcssrs. VIM. Ma-
son 4 Sons and that they are not manufac urng
At York, Pa, we learn from passengers who casno
down Yesterday the shock was truly stsrting rousing
tho whole population, aud creating such excitement
I'm, but few were willing 10 retire again for the ht
TIE shock and rumbng noise thettoo Tcd H. causing
SHAKING Of furniture and rafting of windows IL said
TO have lasted full 20 seconds.
In all sections of he city the sensation was equally
distinct and unmislhkably appalling, and we have
moi y I'M but few who were not aroused from their
sheen by the coucussOn and mccarthy nose that fol-
LOWED the shock which vaFousy estimated 20 have
lasted from 70 10 20 seconds The night was ex-
oessively warm and the atmosphere thick and murSy
On Madison nv and at Mount Nernon-placS me
shock Is represented have been very severe instant
y Iousing the soundest sleepers and apparently Jarg
tie houses 10 their very foundations. On Fen foif
the vibration also very sharp and IN some instan-
the people ran into the streets IN Their niSN
clothing, whie glasses are said 10 have bcea broke1
in some ofhc windows. But we have heard from ey-
cry part Of the city, that IL distinctly felt in all d.
ieciions, causing more or less alarm
We learn that persons on boats and steamers coming
up the bay and riycr felt the shock very distinctly.
and that the surrounding water was not ony greatly
ai;aed but hat the tsh even jumped up In the wa
ter apparently frightened out OF their element
Tie plaster on the ceilings OF some dwellings In Wat
so-st. ie,ween lli,; and Exeter-sts was almost en.
trCly Knocked of by the conclusion
Ii. u WA. NarN FONT.
created good deal OF aorm among the inhabitanis.
At the corner of Alice Anna and Ann es, the houses
seemed TO BE moving TO the nOrthward, the motion
beins uuduating, Ike that of vessel IN sea way
The windows la The houses were shaken and many OF
the people left their promises fearful that IL would De
followed by another and more severe convulslon AZ
the corner OF Exeter and Granby-ss 1t is SAID bed
stead was moved several inches from its position.
On Funmount H the shock was also scnsibly felt
and more so in the neghborhood OF Madison-square,
where tie people we've much alarmed
AT Mount Washington few miles from the city.
the shock WIS like the explosion of heavy armament,
followed by a rumblng of distant thunder. The mn
preston at first that the powder-m ia that W
ciuity had exploded. At the residence OF Mr.. X r.
Griffith, near Woodbury. the whole family were
| aroused but il was supposed TO be explosion aud
attracted no further notice. The operatives at w ssh
! ineton Factory however generally aroused and
| much alarmed.
A rumor was current through the city yesterday AZ
! teInoon that house had been thrown down in the
western section of tho city but such was not the cisc,
nor was the shock sufficient TOR anything OF the kind
/ Neleam from gentleman residing on the billen
road about six miles from the city that the shock was
iplt there with severity bringing everybody out, the
| IMPRESSION prevailing that there had been an awful
explosion of some description in the city, many perso ~
saddg their horses and coming 10 town to learn tha
extent of the supposed catastrophe.
| Al Washington City we learn that the shock was
not felt and persons from along the line of the Bait
moro md Washington Rairoad, within sevon "a
twelve miles of the city, say that nothing was heard
| I,Lf MI Now York the phenomena
not observed nor have we heard of from any more
| fiatopt pont