Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-10-23

Another gentleman living within sixty
feet of the Pacific mills, AYERS that during
the noise just preceding the shock, the
loud din usually made by tho engine and
stones at the mill could no longer be heard.
Jhe course OF the noise seemed to him te be
from the southwestward. Immediately his
doors and windows were so violently shaken
that he ut first imagined burglars were en-
tering--an illusion also experienced by
IN my others.
A member of the night police on Sixteenth
and O'Fallon streets. was about returning
home when he was startled by the sound as
Of a heavy and prolonged explosion, and in
stantly felt himself being heaved by the
ground, aud nearly tripped from his feet
The concussion appeared to him to proceed
from the eastward, and as if it began on the
the Illinois shore and then crossing the riv-
er passed OF to the northward, rcverbera
ting like dealening thunder clap.
y watchman on franklin avenue and Six
teenth street states that with the noise he
felt the ground undulate with motion SO
long and heavy as caused him to stagg3r
several feet before recovering bis balance
The keeper of the calaboose was awaken
ed, as he ut one conceived, by the desrerate
and prOsrering Efforts OF the prisoners to
escape. lie imag ined that the walls were
being sundered, and that he distinctly heard
the doors being wrenched open. The illu-
sion was, Of course, transient.
At hotea on Third street thief was
engaged in extracting the sum of thirty
cents from boarder's pocket, when the
commoton SO agitated his conscience and
per on that he dropped the dimes and call
ell on the waking owner of them TO flee. for
the house was falling, He, of course. fled
\ g'ntlpman from Brdgeton, fourteen
miles irom this city, says that the shock
there was also excessively violent, anI that
the motion was an undulhtiong one. accom-
panied by vertical vibrations of the earth.
The river, of course. was not exempt
from the commoton. Waves several feet
hige are said to have suddenly risen and
dashed upon the banks, rece ling and again
returning
Mr. Smizor. fishing out on the Mercmec
river, states that between the shocks he
saw meteor as large as the full moon, and
very brilliant, shoot across the sky from
south to north, accompanied by roaring
cracking sound, and disappearing with a
loud explosion.
mikman, whose dairy is situated out
on the Olive street plankrOad, says that he
wasup at o clock, and felt slight shook
about that hour.
All over the city, Immediately after the
first shock, the windows and doors of thu
houses were thrown open, and great num-
bers of the people rushed into tho etroet.
The dogs barked and ran bowling away
from the rumbling as it approached. The
pendulums of many clocks were stopped.
and many citizens state that on going into
the air they found great difficulty in res
piration,
gentleman 10 Illinois who was return,
ing to st. Louis when some miles from the
ferry, reports that the earthquake was
accompanied with vivid lightning and loud
thunder, and that the animals were so
much alarmed that they added their lamen-
tations to those of the people, who were in
great terror, and believing that the day OF
doom was at hand, 1t appears from all
that We hear from our sister States, that
the shock came from the southern part.
which is highly probable.