Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-05-30
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Between . aud 10 o'clock last evening
two heavy shoeks OF earthquake, sue
cecded by one or two lighter but dis
,iuc,ly ~pcrceptibls ones, were expert
encsd in this section. The fret shock
was at about twenty minutes pask .,
and the second ten minutes later. The
two principal shocks would be consid-
cred very stsong ones, even Tor San
Francisco. THIS Is our first earthquake
since the discovery Of the Comstoek,
aud the consequent settlement OF tue
country, although the Piutes make men
ton of a time some twelve or htteeu
years 2 when the earth ''got siok'
and the great land slide occurred ON tho
ives, side of Washoe Lake. San Fran
ciscans could hardly call it good "earth.
make weather" either yesterday or
las, night, for instead Of being hot,
close, still aud sultry, it was blustery
and cool. .
gPYEcrs At GOLD hill. .
Although the shocks were very strong
iv felt here, no particular damage was
done beyond the shaking down OF a few
patches Of plastering in some oil the
houses, and the cracking Of here and
there a brick wall or so. Al one resi-
dcnce q lady was seated playing the
piano at the time OF the first shock, and
4 kerosene lamp which was sitting upon
tho piano Was thrown to the floor.
Many people wore very much frightened,
aud some fainling was done among the
ladies in Que or two cases. People ey-
erywherc rushed forth from stores, ss-
looms, dwellings and other buildings TO
tho streets, and general CONSERVATION
and surprise prevailed. Wooden build
iugs cracked and ratified quite alarm
ingly; bedsteads on castors were moved,
Il small pile of barley in sacks at u store
down town, fell to the floor, and a coil
OF rope Mt tho Yellow Jacket works
moved itself = foot or two. Both shocks
we're fsl, very distinctly in the mines,
but not to any great depth. The work.
men in the lower levels heard n great
commotion above them, and thought
the old upper portions of the mines
were caviug. Little or no damage,
however, was really done, The miners
in the Yellow Jacket say they heard the
shaft ,imbers creak considerably. The
station keeper at the west drifts from
the Imperial Empire SHAFT, 900 feet be-
low the surface, fol. the shocks, but not
very strongly, while the men working
in tho drifts did not feel them at all.
AT VIRGINIA.
Pretty much the Same effects were OBJ
served a Virginia as in Gold Hin, only
the people being more wicked were con-
siderably more scared, and some Of the
four-story buildings rocked and cracked
about ut a fearful rate. The Odd Fell
lows if the the fourth story OF the Court
House ran out psll-mell, il full regalia,
down three flights of'stairs TO the street.
A similar exodus was made by the edi-
,oral fraternity and sundry visitors in
the Enterprise office, but tho printers, not
fearing the "devil, f" took tho thing with
much greater GOODNESS and equanimity.
Several brick walls were cracked a lit
tie, and more or less plastering ratified
down, but from u experience OF earth
quakes in California these were no very
'great shakes or near IS heavy as
some which have been experienced in
San Francisco, doing considerable dam
age in the way Of throwing down chin
neys, fire walls, coruices, etc.
AT rue OPERA HOUSE. rN
A general panic was created at Pipers'
Opera House when the first shock WAS
felt. which had hardly become allayed