, 1870-06-30
NEW YORK SHAKEN BY AN
EARTHQUAKE.
All About tho Ekunbtin- ti>ifn:ft-
When md How IL C1lluc, snti the
Extcuf md I1ry-.s1fEon oil the D1ct1-
lntions - Subsequent shock IN
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Extcrt and I,eS.sstIon OF th, n.ctl-
lutiops Subsequent shock IN
DtooAlyn.
From The Se,e York Herald, Jurt ss
Tie rrceen. will he the first intelligence to
most Of the people living On New York lsIaad
that on Saturday evening last We we're visited
b an earthquake: It = .aa sts-toap 5-.p sea,S .n5
shaking by one of these unusual and startling
pbeuo1nepn. but that ehock was so extended,
and the OSCILLATION Of the earth 80 vel defined
ns to leave NO doubt Of its reality. In the lat
ter case. however, there We1s cry wanting & these &sz
being confined mainly to thelfze;st-
Fourteenth f street, and its duration 50
brief that thousands, though feeling the shock
and he azinS the report or rnmblins noise ae-
eompanying it, did not for moment suspect
it WIS an earthquake, but some gunpowdet, OK
Gas, or elyce1iue, or fireworks explosion, and
thus onfy gave transitory heed to ii. It Is
positive now that It was genuine earthquake,
and the proofs Of this startling fact are many
have already al1uded to, OF thousands feeling
Tho shock, there is nothing else to which the
sbock can be possibly attributed, and grow
ine comparison Of notes by those experiencing
its effects clears the subject Of any shadow Of
doubt rs to the real case, which w.s nothing
else than genuine, Simon pure. origins!
earthon,Eaa M ~ Thunder .stnrnns, hur1icaues.
and cycinnes Tbe nrecnrsor Of fhls wna
sudden rise Of the thermometer.
the thermnmetar sfor.7 III et5rh+y-nine aerraaa.
It was hot sntocsti,,<- +he r. };ke tF,c hot air
Of 4 fnznace-nothinr e1ectric or giving in
it. Scarcely q breath stirred the air. Tho
Women, With fans bnsv in motion at on thn
doorsteps anil in the gindoNa. Man who ha3
rntnrued from their dav "A wnrk hi ;ust f1,-
isted their suppets md sat smoking their
evening pipes. Suddenly tho Thermometer
gave an upward Jump OF four degrees. mai
ing tie children psat mora visibiys Gyinr :
liSelier motion tosthe fans, and makinC uaoro
letlar.,ic the whiffs Of smoke from the pipes.
4 moment following this upward leap Of the
thermometer there came quick, rapid shock
sudden lightning Hash on dark summers
night, it quickly c1me N quickly wtnt- Chill
d1en were I'll Ehtsned: the women dropped
their faEs: the men started to their feet.
..What,s thats. called ont the children
women.
whats tbat:- anriousIy echoed the puen.
!. An explosion; it must be- m EXPLOSION. n
rose from hundreds OF 1oiees.
"The house ehook," :" said one
~ felt the earth tremb1e," said another.
There was rush to the housetops. all wun-
| de1ing what i. meant.
What we hnyedeac1ibed was general through
out the eastern part Of the city, and particu-
la1ly in the Thirteenth Ward. Soma turned
their eyes IN the direction Of the Eas WORKS,
in Twenty y-ftst street, and some toward He'll
Gate, and some looked toward the inn works
along Dry Dock, thinking some Of their huge
steam engines might have exploded some
thought II might be ono OF the monster en-
gines in the Hecker Flour Mills, and some
thought the magazine at the brooklyn Navy
Yard might have exploded Tbs slock was
ssc1ibed to = variety Of causes, but in vain
the myriad eyes looked for rising clouds Of
smoke 8nd leaping flames OF fire and othsr
tokens Of an explosion Of the gigantic charac-
ter this was assumed to be- While al vera
wondering, and very few at the time suppoa-
ing they had Just undergone the novel se1sa-
ton Of m earthquake shock, which, with q lit
tie more force, might have rent into countless
aeams the tock-nbbed granite ct our island
foundation, and topp1ed over houses and
swallowed up in lis huge assures buildings and
people and everything, and left no one to tell
the tale Of cur city thus deeply and iErevoc-
ably engulfed info the rumb1ing and irate
bowele Of the neither earth, the thermometer
went down again, falling eeven degrees in
abort space Of time. The direction Of the Vi
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