Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-12

caused the late anu u large
body left the region of Visalia for the
north, a heap of it went up In that
cloud.
The same phenomenon was observed
in this city, though not in as vivid ade-
gree.-Ed Chronicle.
AWFUL PHENOMENA.
From the san Francisco Bulletin, April 81
People living at Independence, at
points where they could see plainly the
sides of the mountains on either hand,
told him that at every succeeding shock
they could plainly see in a hundred
places at once, bursting from the rifted
roeks great sheets of flame, apparently
thirty or fifty feet in length, and which
would coil and lap about a moment and
then disappear. He says these flames
could not have been caused by friction of
rocks or boulders coming down the
mountains, for in his WI neighborhood
there were plenty of these, but no fire
visible. In N place he saw an i'm
mense ledge or drift of whitened and
broken rocks forced out Ofthe mountains
and fall like an immense dump from
some mining tunnel down its side.
When daylight came the entire valley
south of Independence and toward Long
Pine was filled with smoke and dust,
and in places, people said, the fumes of
sulphur were almost s~uffocating. The
clouds of smoke extended from Fish
Springs south as far as the eye could
reach.
Numerous springs We're dried up in
stantly, and others broke out in other
places, while the flow of water was
greatly increased. In one little stream
three or four inches deep, the water was
thrown upward to the hight Of two or
three feet over foot bridges. A man had
several RATS moored in the river near
independence laden with lumber, and
each one was thrown on the banks high
and dry. Mr.. Diggins saw springs OF.
water forced out of the mountains where
before the rocks had been as dry as a
pOwder-house. From the time of the
first shock till daylight, the noises and
shocks We're ineessant.
South of Fish Springs slough the wa
ter was spouted out of the ground in
many places, and there were still to be
seen large pools when the stage passed.
Here, also, ridges of ground from eight
TO ten feet in hight were raised up across
the road. At Big Pine the heavy din
ing-table, with all it contained, was
overturned, and five shocks were ex-
perienced while the passengers were
eating breakfast. Between Fish Springs
and Bishop creek, where formerly was a
desert place, there now gushes forth a
stream of water large enough to turn a
mill. In other places streams and
springs are dried up, and, in fact, the
whole country turned t~opsy-turvy. At
Hot Springs, while severe shocks were
felt on the surface, the men in the mines
two hundred feet deep felt nothing of
them. We have been told of many
other circumstances in connection with
this great earthquake, but have not
room to mention them.
FROM AN EYEWITNESS.
From the san Francisco correspondent of the
New York WOrld.l
Others have told me of the sights they
witnessed. There seems to be but little
variation in them. They are all sicken-
ing and horrifying. wish l had never
talked with one ofthese H'eye-Witnesses.''
Ayoung husband had been sitting at his
Preside with his wife. He intended to
in the morning for this city, and
the two were making the most of the
last time they would be together prob
ably for several months; the candle had
burned out and they were seated close tA
the open fireplace, the wife holding in
her arms a child ola few months. After
the shock, the husband was found on
his face dead, a beam across his neck,
in falling had nearly severed his
head from the trunk; and the mother
so frightfully burned by the fire
brands that she could not have lived
many minutes, and the infant was
lifeless nearly a rod
A family of seven persons
on the outskirts of Visalia who
were sound asleep, were sunk, house and
all, some two or three feet below the sur
face of the ground. All were rescued,
however, alive, except a baby which
was burned to death by coming in con-
tact with a stove. A mother was nur-
a sick child, q girl of fourteen OF
fifteen, who had been taken the day be-
fore with chills and fever. After the
shock neither could be found, the ruins
Of the house itself being swallowed up
In the enormous fissure which had been
made in the earth. This fssure ran
the ground of afarmer, who feel
some presentment of disaster, In
what form he knew not, went out about
one O'clock to see his stock. An unruly
colt had broken loose from his
and the owner was chasing him
about the lot when the shock came. The
colt disappeared, but the farmer has O
lrst-olass drain across a forty-acTe farm.
These incidents of the catastrophe are but
few examples of many Others, Had the
been densely populated they
would have been multiplied by hun
ireds. As it, is there are enough of
hem. To hear those who witnessed
hem relate their experiences Is Ike :
a romance, but they are facts,
md such facts as these unfortunately are l
arely met with, The rumors of vol .
anio eruption have proved groundless, !
hough many were at first disposed to
redit them. The psepie throughout
he district so violently convulsed have
most of them relatives or intimate ac- :
~.uaintances here. and the d~esolatton
hat has visited the country is indicated a
y the grief stamped ON many faces :
then any question relative to the dis
ster is asked them or anyallusion made {
D the subject. :
@ ny Telegraph.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1l.-Shocks in
nyo county continue, with loud reports, :
5 Of cannon, proceeding from the sum-
nit of Mount Breckenridge. Since the
rst shock, which wasfelt from Oregon
Central America, the disturbances {
ave been purely local and not felt west i
f the Sierra Nevada or out of Inyo
!
KANSAS.