The Richmond palladium., 1874-12-23
From the New York Times.
The Recent Shake-It made things
Pretty Lively along the Hudson.

The Recent ShAke-1t made things
Pretty Lively aleng the Hudson.
A few days ago portions of Long
Island and Westchester county were
visited by an earthquake, which
greatly excited the people of those
localities. On that occasion the shock
was first noticed in the neighborhood
of Flushing, Whitestone and that
vicinity. Its course appeared to be
thence across or under Long Island
Sound to the Westchester shore, vis-
iting Mount Vernon, New Rochelle,
Mamaroneck, and Rye, thence wester-
ly to Tarrytown and vicinity. The
shock was most perceptibly felt at
Mount Vernon, East Chester, and
vicinity.
At 1890 o'clock on Thursday night,
Mount Vernon, East Chester, New
Rochelle, Mamaroneck, Rye and other
places experienced another and more
severe shock of earthquake than the
former one, and its effects we're more
widely felt on the line of the New
Haven railroad. The residents of
Greenwich, Cos Cob, Riverside, and
Stamford, Conn.,, were startled and
alarmed by the swaying of their dwell
ings and the rattling Of their windows,
glassware, crockery, etc.
At Mount Vernon the shock was
quite severe, the first indication of the
earthquake was violent shock, ap-
parently occasioned by something of
great body and weight falling upon
the roof or floor of an adjoining build
ing, which caused the houses to SWAY
and rock The crash was followed
by rumbling noise, as if produced
by some heavily laden vehicle passing
over a rough ana hard frozen road
the vibrations and noise lasting from
five to eight minutes. In many in
stances, persons who had retired to
rest were aroused from their slumbers
by the shock, and sprang from their
beds in the utmost alarm, not know
what to do for their safety, fearing
that some sad calamity would befall
them before they could escape, while
some who had just returned from the
city precipitately fed into the streets
in expectation of witnessing the effects
of a terrible explosion of nitro -glycer.
inc or gunpowder, by burglarous at.
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board OF some vessel in the sound.
From this neighborhOod the shock
diverged to all directions, extending
in southwest direction to William,
Bridge, Fordham, Spuyten Duyvil
fremont and Mount Hope; westerly
to Yonkers and Hastings; northwest
erly to Bronxville, Tuckahoe, Scars
dale, White Plains, Greenburg ano
Tarrytown. and other places along the
Hudson River. Along the line Of the
Harlem railroad, north of White
Plains, the shock was very severe
The residents of ofKenscico, Unionville
;. Pleasantville. Chappaqua, Noun
Kisco, Bedford and Katonah wer,
greatly alarmed by the shock.
A resident of Sing Sing states tha
precisely at 1890 A. NJ. he distinctl,
felt the shock while lying in bed, thu
sensation resembling the rocking t.
and fro OF the house. Similar sensa
tions were felt at Peekskill. larry
town, Scarboro, Irvington, Hasting
and Yonkers DR.. Holden, of Scar
boro, while putting his horse in tn,
stable, experienced a strong shock
and his fowls in the barn became 81
frightened that they left their roosts
In a new house, three quarters of
mile from Sing Sing, portions Of tn
kitchen walls were thrown down b,
the shock.