Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-10-15

dents in Connection with 1t.
From the St. Louis Evening NeOs, of last Thurs
day, we copy the following account of an earth
quake in that vicinity:
ea About twenty minutes past o'clock this morn
ing, rather severe shock of earthquake was ex-
perienced in ST. Louis as also in the surrounding
Vicnitiea likewise for many miles on the Illinois
side Towards midnight of Yesterday moisture
began TO perVade the atmosphere, and finally some
what Of a dew formed. This did not increase
10 density until about halfpast two o'clock in the
morning, when fog began to gather over the city,
and superseded the dew. Il grew gradually thick
er and thicker, until about twenty minutes past
four, when Ito give the words Of officer McAeans
and felloW-oiicer who were sitting Third
street, between Poplar and Plum, in a doorway
they heard loud, rumbling noise. They jumped
up and had scarcely reached their feet before they
were amazed at the shaking Of the ground beneath
their feet, so that they could scarcely stand.
The windows Of the houses on both sides Of the
street clattered loudly in their frames, blinds few
Open aud out popped the heads of scores of peo-
pie n their night dre sses who occupied the houses
alarmed at the oscillation of their beds, windows
and furniture in their rooms, and the cry of ian
earthquake" broke the silence that otherwise reign
ed at this early hour of the morning. We NAV
state that tue evidences just narrated were expert
enced by people all the city. Upon compar-
ing all the accounts together it il apparent that the
shock proceeded from the southwest and so trav-
eled along. Parti' describe it coming up from
the river west. from which point it felt less Sc
we're. At AeFamac, and all points below the river
it was very acutely felt. Persons coming in from
there state that at the time of the shock the noise
Tesembled at one moment the rumbling induced by
steam eDdeavoring 10 escape through mutfled ap-
parstus, and at another though vehicles heavily
laden With muffled heels, were being drawn with
express speed over cobble stone road. The latter
sound heard in this city.
At Meramac it pitch dark at the time, and
the people very much alarmed and ran out of
Tho haT apiaa afr nail q
sulphur, and it is said upon good authority, that
sulphuric meteoric ball rolled about the streets in
this city, leaving wherever it went a most unpleas-
ant smell. In consequence of the early hour of
the morning, very little known of what the
outside effects were; but IN regard to the inside
they visible 10 many parts. Plaster has
fallen from the ceilings locked doors we're unlocked
and thro@ n open, bril- ks knocked down, beds and
furniture displaced. The Missouri Hotel and many
buildings in the vicinity, are described to US by
some OF the bOarders to have rocked very nearly
like a cradle, and a large number of them quickly
arose from their beads in alarm. Heads were pop
ped out of the windows and many persons went
into the street.
''FOur miles north from here, just before the
shock, it was very dark After the first shock, and
about eight minutes after that came the second
shock, which was felt all the city, but was
not so strong the rst although very perceptble,
when the moon shone out bright as This
is very strange phenomenon to be accounted for;
Ho" F" 10 'nAt Wits 1ne eHOCk Is IN progress udIh
ness so peculiar should prevail, and that sooner
had the shock been felt than il quickly disappears
and gives way to the slVery path of the moons
rays. 1t is very certain that there too Shocks
the first is stated by old ctizers of St. Louis have
been severe than any other which has
Cured since 1911, when the great earthquake
which destroyed Caracas, and other cities in Cen
trsl America, extended itself as near to St. Louis
as New Madrid, where the property all des-
troyed and large number OF lives lost. That
earthquake also did considerable damage to St.
Louis.