The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-21
Yesterdays Earthquake
Effects in New York and Boston.
The Taking of Strasburg
Shut Up in Metz.
|AMaxiInilian and Napoleon.
sBaptism of a Royal Baby.
THE EARTHQUAKE.
Two Distinct shocks In New York Clty-POpu
lar Alarm Pupils aud Teachers leaving tht
Grbn

II lar Alarm Pupils and Teachers leaving the
Schools.
The New York Tribune to-day says
The earthquake manifested Itself in this city
r about IL 30 A. NJ, causing the widest excite
dment where the shocks were most severe. The
= &earth vibrated rapidly for about ten seconds
Xwhen the undulatlons ceased for an interval of
Fifteen seconds, occurring again. and continuing
q for about the same lcugth of time as before.
i The effects on those who felt the quivering of
= the earth under their feet were various; causing
some to believe that the end of all things earth
s. ly was near at hand. Mothers rushed from the
6 6densly-peopled tenements of the Tenth ward,
bearing their children in their arms and hur-
> ried up and down the streets in wild aud be-
8widered manner. Every article of household
h furniture was left behind, aud the saving of
their lives seemed all that the most fortunate
could hope for.
4 The shocks were noticed more distinctly in
the Sixth ward, although they were distinctly
sperceptble in the Tenth, Seventeenth Seventh,
Hand Fifth. Opinion seems to be greatly divided
the rumbling noise in the earth under
meath, some claiming that the rumbliug fol-
clowed, others that it preceded the unduating
motion of the EARTH and that it continued for
Halmost minute, at intervals of few seconds.
( After passing Park row, the wave-like roll
<seemed to follow the district situated between
Centre street, East Broadway, and Allen street,
until reaching the Seventeenth ward, it turned
= and crossed to Long Island.
Further up town Frank Leslies publishing house,
on Pearl street. was affected. The foreman OF the
composing room was making up form at the time,
and accused person standing near or shaking the
imposing stone The movement OF the building
being repeated all on the two upper stories rushed
down stairs, leaving hats and coats behind; some
their sticks full OF type to the pavement One is
ported to have carried down an empty brass galley,
! and another a mallet. The clock hanging in the
room stopped the hands pointing to '35 The
workmen on the fourth floor describe the sensation
as dls8greeable in the extreme, and many OF them
were sick for more than an hour afterward. The
acid was in some cases thrown out OF the batteries
! in the copper-plating room.
! Two artists in the front room of the buildinr
on the same floor were thrown from their seats.
The fist few who rushed down stairs and out at
the front door dlslodged a large sign which hung
over the door. Those behind, seeing this fall
thought it to be the beginning of the general
crash. The shock was not felt in the press
room. At the same moment the employees in
Rnssell's bookbindery, situated just opposite on
Pearl street, came hurrying out. Some of the
men in Frank Leslies building, who were seated
near windows, state that the shot-tower of the
New York Lead Company, situated near by,
sway ed perceptibly, much to their constema-
ton. AS no shot were casting no one was in
the tower.
! At Lord & Taylors, on Grand street, two
shocks were felt, each of about ten seconds
duration. On the fourth floor, in the rear,
where the women were at work, considerable
Pexcitement was occasioned. One woman, in
her confusion, ran to window, and jumped to
- distance OF about ten feet to the roof of an
3adjoiniLg shed, receiving, however, no serious
injury Another woman tainted four times in
succession. No shock was felt on the first or
second stories, but on the third men were
unable to write, and some were unable to stand.
One gentleman, who had been making pur-
chase, and was waiting for his change, ran from
\the third floor to the street, and would not re-
enter the building. The clock hanging on the
Hwall in the rear building was stopped at exactly
1112.
At the public school on Fourteenth street,
near Second avenue, there were 1900 children.
The scenes in the different school-rooms were
pitiful. Children were screaming and rushing
a and & in, will ht1tf fF1a a
short time the whole number, teachers and
pupils, were marched out of the school building
into the street. Ing Grammar School No. 49,
also situated on East Fourteenth street, they
barely escaped serious panic. The Principal
Mr.. William Smeaton, who was seated at his
desk in the boys department at the time, per
Nceiving that the house was shaking, at once
ordered the BOYS to leave, which they did with
Nsame time sent to the girls department request
ing the Principal to dismiss the girls at once
They went into the street without any idea o
the cause of their dismissal, leaving coats ant
hats behind.
The Shock In BostcuIGranite Building
A Boston despatch to the New York Time
says
In the Court House steady vibration wa
perceptible to every person within its walls
The Flynt dressmaking case was in the progres
in the.Superior Courtroom, and the reporters a
first accused each other of jogging the table
and then resumed their writing. The shaking
continuing, they looked at each others leg
under the table very suspiciously, and agail
turned their attention to their pencils. Tn
vibration not yet ceasing, they mad
n third investigation, when one remarked
at is an earthquake" Simultaneous.
all the people in Court rose to their feet, ant
some twenty or thirty left the room. Peopl
went out also from other courts in the edifce
The vibration in the Superior Court room is sa
to have lasted full sixty seconds, and felt pre-
cisely as if some one was sitting against the
table and violently shaking their knees. 1t di
not seem to be divided into distinct shocks
hrobably the height and make of the eddie
having the effect of springs. In one of tn
oldest stores on Merchants row, the shakin
in the upper stories was very Violen
the granite coping over the street doc
was cracked in two places and som
pieces fell out of free-stone block upon th
sidewalk. The store of Isaac Fenno 81 Co., o
Franklin street, was also alarmingly shaker
and lot of sewing girls rushed into the stree
thinking the block was going to fall The shoe
was severely felt at the Suffolk County Jail, O
Charles street, and produced a good deal
fright among the inmates. Unpleasant sens
tions were also strongly experienced by the il
mates of the State House. the City Hall builC
ing, the Quincy Market, and the Studio Built
klDg on fremont street, aud the shipping in IL
Dor was cOnsiderbly affected causing gre
Meut along the whaTyes.
ehOck was quite severely felt In the v