New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-12
The EARTHQUAKE OUT WEST.


Frcs 7As ST. Losa Ds-e~vuf Oct O.
uaose deep slunbes which ever preoeds
preaching day, by an earthquake such y
has seldom, II ever before, visited the Unissd
States. We are yet unsdvised Of the eK.ssk
Of coil over which il hiss exercised its rage, ara
Of the intensity Of it's violence in other Localities
Rumois prevailed in the streets yesterday OF dls<s-
teIs occasioned BY il to various cities along the lower
Mississippi, which were Of course discred.sed - Ne
telegraph, Up 10 a late hour, gave u no informa-
ton of any such misfortune. These reports probably
grew entuey out Of those prior reasonirgs which
are so apt to mslea and dupe the Of meu. evea
when tbey PRIDE themselves on strict adherence .
the laws Of evidence and experience. Over tho 81
Joining regions of Illinois, and those portions Of the
State Wing contiguous to 81. Louis il Is certain that
the mn oton not less than il vas in this
city. In Illinois il was accompanied by tempestuous
sky and electrical phenomena of an unusual character;
while with Us il was preceded by freaks Of electricity
yarously described as vivid flashes Of lightning aad
a. the decent of binding meteoric ball from the
heavens.
The interval between the two shocks, the FIRST q
which occurred st about Al O'clock was one OF pain
full suspe nse TO such ss had aroused themselves to
full consciousness Of the nature of the danger and who
aGverted TO the fact that ordinarily at least IN the
earthquakes Ct the tropics the violence Of the convu
stone succeedirg the frst, of which there are
commonly two, was that Of progress nearly
eouaing geometricsl ratio. The staunchest houses
syaytd 10 ard fro with undulstory motion very
much resembling that Of a ship ls5oring under ~
srgry sea row seeming to stop stiu snd bid defiance
10 the tyrapt waves, ard anon bounding forwnN
quiverug in every plank and mpartng to the voysger
that in, fable sensation which is TO the mind what Sea-
sickness is 10 the body The rafting Of windows TIE
displacement of furniture; the cleaning Of lights from
bed rooms which sudc eny Illuminated the pitch DARK
which prevailed the wild terror OF some, and Tie
bewldern, ut of others whom the threatening pheno-
ueIon had startled from their dreams, formed scene
n ore easily imagined than described. The second
shock took psce sbOu, Eve minutes after the first, bat
was of biIei duration and inferior violence.
From The Tafeiligencev, Oct 9.
Two very severe shocks of earthquake werc
experienced In ST. Louis and vicinity, about o'clock
on Thursday morning. The 6rst was preceded by the
usual suberranean growl, Of avid import and signih
canoe. Then came the agitation Of the solid eerta,
and the quiverg Of s bosom, A. the thrces OF the
Z" Last Day" were on it, A lull followed the shock
which il universally admitted to have been the 80
veres elt in the Mississippi Valley since 1911, and
then in about minutes the subterraaean stoxm
again arose and roared beneath the rocks and hills.
sno brought second but slighter rocking OF the
earth.
large and brilliant meteor shot across the heavens,
from south 10 north, between the first ard second
shocks 1t was by various persons thirteen and
twenty lies wet of the city. Our teegraph.c dis
patches inform us that the earthquake very violent
IN central Illinois, shaking Gown chimnies and thresten-
irg houses.
We are informed by the officers Of the steamboat
Gladiator which arrived last evening" that che was
living Yesterday about 100 miles below St. Louis, and
that nothing was heard felt board OF her OF The
earthquake which created such sensation hero.