The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-26
EARTHQUAKE.
Cause of the COmmOtiOn In GermuHy-siiIr:u 1
the Cities.

the Cities. "
From a North German Correspondent.
We now learn that the shocks OF earthquake of the
Both and 31st OF October were most distinctly felt at
Frankfort Weisbaden, Darmstadt, Mayence, Onen-
scribes the shock OF the 31st of October in Frank
fort, as follows:-"At twenty-sX minutes past
O'Clock experienced shock of such severity that
every object in the room began to oscillate in
strange and alarming manner This continued for
three four seconds the direction being from east
to west. The house was shaken to its very
foundation" The writer of this letter adds that
he tottered on his chair before the secretary
at which he was sitting The movement as well
as he could judge, was undulatory. The shock
far surpassed in violence anything OF the kind pre-
vously experienced in that part OF Germany We
find in another communication from Frankfort
give OF us were sitting at a round table in the
second-stOry OF the house, when something like
electric shock seemed to pass through us all simu-
taneOusly AT the same moment our chairs and the
ground under our feet began TO oscillate in an in
comprehensive manner; the windows OF the new
solid stone house clicked il struck by sudden
blast from without, and the doors creaked as If
more distant door on the same floor had been closed
by some one with violent clash. There was, how
ever neither wind outside nor any person in the ad
joining room. After giving vent to our astonishment
and alright in cry uttered in unison, observed
that the lustTe in the middle OF the room swing
ing like slow pendulum. In Russelsheim and
Schwanheim several chimneys were overturned by
On the ist inst. another shock of earthquake was
felt at Frankfort, and Is described by cOrrespon-
dent OF the Cologne Gazette, In letter dated I'd of
November, in the following terms The inhabitants
OF Frankfort and its nelghborhood were startled
more serious than any Of the preceding. Your cor
respondent will not easily forget the feeling OF
ror with which he awoke from sleep, nor the sensa-
ton of giddikess with which he was suddenly seized.
Theshaking was violent that the furniture rocked
and have heard that in a house on the May
ence road the plaster of the ceiling fell and the
terrified Inmates sprang out OF their BEDS believing
| the house was about to fall, and hastily struck
| light.
The grand focus OF the subterranean commotion
appears, however, to have been Gross-Gerau, be-
tween AIayence and Darmstadt, as We learn by the
| following interesting details in the FrankfarteT lei
| tung:-''The numerous shocks OF earthquake to
which Gross-Gerau has been exposed for the last
six DAYS are beginning TO assume alarming char
acter Since the night OF the Goth to the 27th Octo
| ber in which the first gentle heaving was percept-
BILE not less than 200 Shocks seven OF them Violent
| accompanied by subterraAeous thunder, have been
| experienced. On the goth the unduations were
| frequent, but more curious than disquleting On
the evening Of the 80th however, violent shock was
felt at O'Clock, which repeated at hal-past IL
and again at O'Clock In the morning. On the 31st two
| severe shocks occurred at quarter part IL and q
quarter TO respectively, and third at twenty