The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-03-26
ALARH AT BALD FOUNTAIN,
The Subterranean Iutterings OF
IN Earthquake.
Sixteen Days and Nights Of
Terror.
A Season Of Prayer.
From the New York Sun. 1


Knoxvills, Tenn, March 2O.-For Ii,
lass twenty days the Ereatese excitement hal
prevailed for diseance Of twenty-five mile,
around and near Bald Mountain. Thi
mountain u between Crooked Creek in Nc
Dowell county and Beoad river, The noun
tain also extending into Rutherford county
That part Of the range within Mcdowell
county = generally called Stone Mountain
The 6nt signs Of IN earthquake j. this Re
gioa were noticed On the 10th Of February.
They were what the people cali . terrible
numbering. the earth seeming to quive,
ffishtfally. Some persons describe it u
thunder gradually dying away in the distance
Others like the roaring of heavy artillery in
the distance. On the 18th Of February two
gentlemen on the higheet point of Bald
Mountain known - Harris View, which ID
aid 70 b next to Mt Mitchell in hight,
heard this noise. One of them says it al
frst reminded him Of the falling Of heavy
timber. Persons Who live on the mountain
Gdes and 1t the base heard the same noiee.
All think that the noise was in the mountain.
One man says when be was on one side Of
the mountain
The TkkkIBLE NOISE
was in the direction of the mountain, and
that on the opposite side the same indica-
lions were noticed. All feel satisfied that
The noise proceeded alone from this noun
tain. % the I'D of February the noise
W. terrible. Among the persons who live
on this mountain are Mr.. Camp, johnson
Elliott, Noah Elliott, widow Nanny, Geo.
Morgan, James Gilbert, and Others. These
and perbaps fifty others, say that the noun.
lain was actually shaking. II seemed as
though the entire mountain was giving way.
ID, and have wandered from there usual
range. Such was the alarm that at about IL
o'clock on the night of the 22d ult the PEG.
pie for miles around began to assemble at the
house of Mr.. Camp. Camp, having gone
10 the wood pile for wood, became 30 much
alarmed that he fell upon his knees and be-
gan TO pray aloud. Very soon
THE TERRIBLE QUAKING OF THE NOUN
was such that the great multitude engaged
IN prayer. At dsybreak on Monday, Geo.
Logan, . colored Baptist preacher, was cent
Tor in haste, and 20 impatient were the multi.
ude of his arrival that some Of them met
him on the road beseeching him to come and
pray and preach. The people thus asscm-
,led continued these devotions three days;
hen they moved . short distance to q
vacant house. the property of Harris Ell.
lott. On the third day, Billy Logan, q
white man and Baptist preacher, was sent
or. On March 8, J. n. Lumly, . Metho-
list minister in charge of Broad River Mis-
lion, was importuned to attend and preach.
He promptly complied with the request.
eye witness describes the scene - strange
nd extraordinary. The people come flock
ng in crowds Of fifteen and twenty. includ.
ng men, women and children, all in . ter.
.ible state Of fear, despair and penitence.
SIXTEEN DAYS AND NIGHTS OF PRAYER.
On the day Of Mr.. Lumly's preaching the
'ouse was literally packed. the preachers
,arely having room to stand. So eager we're
hey TO hear that many vent up the side of
be walls and crowded ON the jolsts above.
When the call was made for mourners the
'eopls rushed from all:parts of the house and
rom the outside, with frantic yells, and fell
% the floor and upon each other, all prsy-
ng and duplicating. These exercises con.
inued incessantly for sixteen days and nights
nth but little intefmision. During this
ime the people all lived in common. Cattle,
orses and hogs were turned to the woods,
nd the entire people within the range Of
his
AWFUL EXCITENENr
aye become impressed with the belief that
hey have but few more days to live.
bout one hundred have made profession Of
eligion. The closing scenes of this strange
,eeting srs represented "A peculiar and
onderfll. During most Of this period Of
xteen days the mountain had continued at
to present the same alarming i'm
but having prayed, shouted, sung
nd agonized for this long period, people
.parated with tho promise that all would
sturn and die il necessary. The awe-strick.
D countenances. the melancholy demeanor
I this vast multitude on the breaking up of
% devotiOns are undesirable.
A letter was received in this city to-day by
gentleman whose mother lives near Bald
saying that near the summit of
ut peak an area Of nearly an acre was agi-
ted BY subterranean upheavals and sink.
q, and that smoke and vspor issued from
e mountain.