The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-24

.nas event was celebrated on the day OIL the
The, rumbling, of course
reused him, and he sauntered out to Gam.
ble's Hill, where be meta pumber of young
men. .WelI,0 said he, "this is my birth.
day. ] am seventy years old to-day, but
never saw a parcelof men out befHe hunting
for an earthquake"
In the same part of the city young lady,
q member Of an extensive family, after
having recovered from her alarm and The
tears were wiped away, said. In the course oi
the conversation With the family, "Well,
put all my money and jewelry In my pocket,
where is would be SAFE"
At night the newspaper men generally
congregate in the Office of the Associated
Press, and there discuss the occurrences o!
the day and the news Of the country. While
three or four were talking the shock came.
One Of them uttered an exclamation that the
engineer at the Dispatch had allowed the
engiDe.governor to fy of, and declared II
ne didn't make haste and stop the engine
the boiler would burst.
.One of the members of khe General AS
sembly, whe was at one Of the uptown ho-
tells, ran down stairs and into the street,
where he emphatically declared that he
could stand the smallpox; "but can't
stand this" said he, oil my clothes are up
stairs" His condition need not be further
described.
A well.knowu citizen who resides on
Broad street reports that the curtains at his
out of their places.
Several psnes of window-glass In Mr.. J
T.. Ege's house, on Broad street near Mayo
we're broken.
Mr.. Shelton says that he heard the rum
bling in nortbeasterly direction for quar-,
ter of q mile after it passed the city. II
seemed to him to come from southwesterly
direction and pass away in a northeasterly
direction.
HOUSES INJURED-IECIDEETS.
A son Of gentleman who lives on Mair
street near Fourth was sitting in rocking
chair reading, and his father was startled BY
the quake, and, turning, saw the chair vic
lently rocked back and forth.
On Church Hill-or, rather, in the extreme
eastern end of the city-a young gentleman
was going up to his room, when the very
steps trembled beneath him so violently be
thought the house was giving way.
A number of bricks were knocked off o.
one of Mr.. John Gordon's chimneys. and of
OF a chimney on one of S. B. Ragland':
houses.
Something very funny is said about gen
tleman about twenty-five years Of age. Ht
was sleeping In an adjoining room to that o
his mother when the shock was felt. and h'
was so much alarmed that he jumped up
and returning to first principles ran into tht
next room and got in bed with his mother
The plastering In the back porch of Cap
tain Capers's residence, No. 621 Tenth street
north of Leigh street. was shaken out, while
the corner OF one of Mr.. Garret r. Watson
chimneys was knocked of.
A gentleman living near the corner o
Twenty.eighth and Broad streets states tha
the earthquake actually locked his room
door. 1t had never been locked at night be
fore, and having occasion to 60 out, b
found much to his establishment that 1t wa
locked! ...
Some old soldiers described the sound a!
very similar to the noise made by the passag
of heavy train Of army wagons. MI
Stephen Putney remarked yesterday that h
remembered very distinctly the impression
made upon his mind the morning that Ger
eral Lee attcked the enemy before Richmond
the terrible rattling Of the windows and tn
shaking of the houses, but that was not TO D.
compared to the effect on him OF the earth
quake.
eLEEPERs DISTURBED.
Mr.. N.col, who lives on Broad street, wa
aroused from quiet sleep, and thought tha
his house was being robbed. He seized hi
gun and rushed into the passage, ready Z
shoot the first maR he saw. He soon foun'
his mistake, however. and then endea
fn foHu VI
fright.
At Mr.. Fl. W. Lubbock's residence, Nc
732 north Fourth street, stove was upset II
one of the sleepipg-rooms, Mr.. Lubbock wa
thrown from the side Of his bed, and tn
house seemed to rock from side to side.
A very interesting incident is related by
Young gentleman (and he vouches for it
trutb1 who was one of party of FIVE VIII
were engaged in playing bluff somewhere il
the neighborhood of Fourth street. He state
that one of the party was losing very heav
ily: the thing had become rather monot
onous, and suddenly he exclaimed. ooh,
wish an earthquake would shake the cara
we'll" A moment more shock dld come
sure enough. His wish was gratlhed, Du
the party broke up in dlsmay.
THOUGHT AN ENGINE had EXPLODED.
A gentleman living almost immediatel.
over the Church. Hill tunnel stated yesterda.
that his first idea after being awakened b!
the rumbIiug noise, and hearing the rattlinE
of the windows and doors, was that an en-
CINE bad exploded in the tunnel. Finding
however, that the house stood firm, ate
lying awake awhile, and hearing no unusua
noise in the street, he concluded that it va
an explosion of either locomotive or steam
boat boiler. Several others of bis household
were awakened, and wondered much at th'
strange sounds and unwonted rattling Of tht
doors and windows, but concluded that
heayily-laden train was passing through th'
tunnel.
THE DOCK AND RIVER.
The ewater in the dock and river wa!
greatly disturbed. 10 the dock waves dashed
quite high and angrily against the wharves
Mr.. Hopkins, the keeper at the ship-locks
thought that the lock.gates had been swep
away. On the river at Rockets the wave:
suddenly rose several feet, and one OF
two of the tug. boats, schooner, and 9
sloop parted their cables and drifted down
below the Sylvester's wharf.
Our marine reporter states that in conver
sation with Mr.. George T. Watson, second
engineer Of the D. A. Arnold, he was in
formed that Mr.. Arnold was asleep in his
cabin at the time of the visitation. When he
retired for the night he locked his door, but
when he was aroused it was wide open:
there was tremendous j:rk to the tug as
though she was settling. He ran on deck,
and there met one of the crew, deaf and
dumb man, who was making signs to him
that the tug had been run into. They went
on board coal barge, looked around there
satisfied themselves that everything was O.
f., and then returned.
The mate of the Wyanoke, and the engi'
neer of the tug Olive Branch, MIR. ". 81
Watson, were at City Point, where they fell
the shock distinctly.
A watchmap on one of the dredges In the
river and other nersuns ON the line of the