New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-16
AN EXPLOSION, IN EARTHQUAKE OR
METEOR.

Everybody who WAS not in profound slambeY mus
marx able ard thuf far my a. has,
curmg lorg psriod Of Ii re, tramp red IN taa %
Of country
At sbo a. .evep o'eloek, while the sly Vas perfectly
clouol.ss while hardly q bceSh Of air ~,s stirring,
While rot . sir gle INDICATION prevailed Of . neural
c. muoiiop Of al tsrt shAiever taero - terrible,
shocking de,opstrg report acco ppspiet, appNeety,
b, two Il arp ecboes II ss If IN, sund h,d come
rtm the sk,-but there we've no cL'uhs, DOC single
indication Of toe psev.lesce Of cleo rcfy aod tbs;
tlsps,ior could not b. ertAired The fofc< OF the
conclusion great tha bous>s serr ehakeo; hAs
p.Isups wskus in the syeet felt the sround viorsse
IN crrr ca, tb.u; that wbo nad Just coI need
wolk upon buidn gs iDst Icus~y droppeo their tooi,
ara ooktd TO see hs; the n,tfeI that htte chL-
d'-r frightened, ana asksd u.any strange qaes-
tcns Of their psrepts
Nhat could b. the explsra ion OF this wonderful
phruon.poui Every booy sskeJ-nobody answered.
Son. al heard eamboat n.rs burst scd the nois
Was "eaartfy the sSpe. Others re nemoofei n
dreacfu ca.ualty at the Ida Hu percussion cap fac
tow and were i-arfnl that IL 'S been repeated.
OILERS collect. tina, vt Sebas htc k aud B-oning
& are pos del. mills which have been blown n
,i.nt times, spd expected - hear dresifd story
s',n from some point. 80 fsr a. we can learn, Az
these suru see incorrect No boiler has been burst
in hi, vicinity TIE ida Hill percussion cap factory
h., net bee destroyed despi unors to he contrary
The Schsghticoke ana Bennington powder mills are
in operation, and DO oseter hss occurred a. either
toilt The pcussion was he >rc Schsghticoke -
plainly at this point, and u p.ops there Supposed
/ the Remington works ~eie ho~nu At Bonn ng-
ton which thirty two pies from here, II was no lsss
distinct. and there the conclusion sas that Scaasht
coke a. the point whence Il pr CO ded. At Eagle
Bridge, IT vas forcibls enough 10 sr the lights Of
widows and shake the sea,s On the down ualo OF
c,rs. Aud south. At Greeubush he people ran in
tocts TO the docks suppo~hg some steamboat on The
Albany side Of the rner bad burst Is boiler. At
Schodack meo who ~tre at ", rk Ia the fields heard
the report aud fell the shock with great d-tinctness
At Abba folks much startled, aud turned their
cl,vO ard Jsg l.el Indicate
It's cause.
About 10 cock rumors prevailed ths the magazine
at the Wserviiet A,s, nal had exploded and % men
were killed. There was en- ugh probability IN this
sfatsutn excite at eDton sid insure belief IN the
II ipds Of mary. The consequence WA an immediate
rush in the direction Of tn. ferries. Many we're led up
the hill TO witt the RUNS If the PERCUSSION factory
which BY the way is small building, entirely iso-
lated from Any other structure. Some ~ere induced 70
wa d, to the steamboat docs, by being told thx
is boiler exploded shie rountlng 10 &C the dock.
One veg gave hus opini,n that the news OF the
recent Hard ard So combat at of our hotels had
inst r. aehed Washington and the cradle President
hsd "bo~ed up" Others suggested that perhaps
Gov Nlses united Vlrsiuia" bad Collapsed.
Fourteen segons laden with po vder hat BEEN started
ont from the Sch agtook- ~orhs ih's morning. When
the napsseis Of these mills learned th an explosion
had not they the outset supposed, taken place IN
nnn eton, they conc GUIDED that the powder On inc
pursut Of them The fourteen teams arrived saefy IN
iowu during the forenoon, hostver.
So lie my stery renamed urexplAned h'u eVnrnuy
ipexpi able But a.. theory Al hand backed up
hy pt, sopal obs.rvst,r. We do not sumo to say !,
~ correct, simply give It as We get and bsve
scientific to explain dispose OF "A they zee W.
John p. Ball County Cleik, assures Us that the
nose head thu suit Of AL explosion Of meteor
in the ky. MFR. Ball resides in Pts,own, IN this
couuy, and is peri city honorable aud rel,ble eeo-
fler ar He informs tina. be bad just finished bic
break last, sud vas sta dig in sd or ya'd When hs
observed a brt ht high 10 soutberiy direction from
bis house over the town Of q sFon, and descending
very rapidly to the gronrd in north-westerly
course This was sbont 7:20 a. M. Mr Ball last
saw it when about baf a nio shove the e1tn,
when it disappeared, and in moment or moro
he heard the expiOsh D. IL was very Loud, and
resembed thunder. He had previously called biz fam
lily to the meteor and they all observed the hight
three sepa At. explosions one mach louder than
the oihersand 10 supper Of her atement, Mr.. Ban
ssys lie three dis ct clouds ofsnOk- IN tho track
of The meteor, which appeared 10 DO mile or more
spar. The smoke visible for some time, but was
e. ally Lost to eight. The me.eOr appe AIRED Tn be at
oi,tatc. of about t~ent, miles from Mr. Ball residence
AMI io'ked hbe a lsIge-szsd sky rocket
II has b. settled that a meteor does explode,
We believe. If it does, fail to by what pOssi-
bity il uld produce three ports Such bodies
not generally sTged the revolver Pfiaciplc. But
il uete OF could xpode and three reports,
readers judge as wel as We can what must have
been the iDmeny VI its volume and The force Of tho
explosions 70 make the. reports distinctly be for
distance off,rty o. fifty mites in a'y direction. We
IL would reqare larger stone tnsn that was repre-
scented to have been 10 csnre this phenomenon. We
coufers We puzzled. We iocline TO the opinion
that this section Of country hiss experiences slight
sh. cb Of eait' quake gtrilsmsa from Venezuela,
where snch occurrences common, says that tbio
WIS hir immediate conclu.ou. 10 every way, accord
to bic opinion, the shock iesenbed that produced
by an earthquake
To pendent who suggests the theory that tho
noire sthuder-clsp The Troy Times says:
There are various arguments against the idea that
TO us prevent its eLtersiLm-nf. Eccentric a. cleo
tricy undoubtedly u.s. we have never heard OF
explosion where there Sas no collection, ant-ne~s-
papers TO the contrary observation-disclosures arc
yet 10 bsieve that there be c0lIec ions re-
qurirg that distribution in equilibrium manifested
by thund.r.shOcks IN an entirely clear and cloud
less sky. A gain, the force Of the shock wM such
ihst 1t was heard for distance OF fifty miles. Our
correspondent can reason with hInref how grea,
then 10 mnst have been that par icalar 10
c,hry where the discharge be supposes occurred. It
was accom- PANIED by peculiar yibatory motion Of the
eartt. We do not bel7ve this could have proceeded
fir III ihUDcer.csp, snd especially from shock at
dlr'al &c Of come miles For these ard other ressOns
we col ude that our correspondent is wrong, and in
eli to the opiLD that the pneDoInenon resulting om
ID, sigb, shock Of earthquake which sapposlng such
Ia lave been the Gaze, sopId have been equally
noc. able at Scbodack and At BenDins ton, whereas
concus-ion esubg fom electrical rne.eOric ex
pc 81 D-sdmttiIg the sst to be posslblewould have
b.. 70 limited its e1ec~, and le-s 10 proportion
10 The rglsTe OI tue uslh GbVeIeeu INC sOuno.
TIE Abany Argps Of August 3fsys:
I'VE are inclined TO think that il wss gentle earth
quake Although We cannot learn that Il vas felt in
this city, have been s.,nred by two or three sab
,orbers from the towns Of Cumberland and Ne Scot
lard who in our coun,il room yesterday, that
the pheromspoD experienced IN these vicihi-
tee soon after OclS k On Thursday morning. Toe
heavy. ruo bling ound and vibration Of the earth con-
tpue6 they say, for Two three minutes. protesting
o the south west and dying away On the north sssl
When they g.ve US this information, they we're igno-
rsnt that any such thing had bel experienced any
where else"