Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-29
4 VIGOROUS SHAKE UP.
Nankton Was Stirred by q Lively Earth
-S"9 quake Last Night.

~uAs0h Waa Sttrre0 by y Lively EARTH
-S" quake Last Night.
An earthquake aroused many Of tho
sleeping people of Yankton at half pas,
twelve O'Clock last night aud louad II Few
OF the iste sitters up wide enough awake to
enable them to give something Of an account
OF the visitation. Captain Tim Barleigh.
says that heswas deeply absorbed in tie
latest literary work when the shock cauir
aud fora time he WIS not sure that the.
end OF all things had not arrived. Hes was
10 his q at his fathers residence, which
is a heavy walled brick building. II was
violently shaken from foundation to cor.
nice. the agitation lasting, about q minute
and a half. II was accompanied by the us-
Nal attendant @, of earthquakes-al
low rumbling sound, proceeding
from the bowels of the earth and
sounding like the distant roar Of q train Of
cars. Captains Billy Sims was also awake
and felt the jar and heard the grumble Of
the %upheaval. He first thought that a train
of cars was heading for his domicile. bat
quickly recognized the sound as one of
natures remarkable efforts. Msjor and Mrs.
Hanson, living a couple Of miles below town,
were awake and heard the rnmbling
and the rattle Of their crockery and felt the
swaying Of their house. They both made
up their minds on the spot that an earth
quake had struck them. Will Lower was
medita,ing in his little bed when the shock
came, and he says he Immediately con.
cluded that the up country stage was
rolling by his house to pick up William
Kramer, who has to get up early to send
out express matter. He changed his opin-
ion, however, as the shaking became more
vigorous, and then discovered that it was
too early for the stage. George
Peck, night clerk at the Merchants, was at
first under the iml ression that some nervous
boarder was dragging q trunk through the
upper haiis Of The hotel and occasionally
hating TO drop it down q flieh, of stairs.
Will Storey. who rooms in P~ennington's
block, s,st-s that the cover Of his stove
danced a lively jig for several seconds be.
fore he tumb!ed to the racket. bu: that as
soon as he got around to himself he msdeup
bis mind that he was attacked by an earth
quake. L. NJ. Purdy was awakened by the
shock. He lives int frame building and
was the most extensively shaken up man We
have interviewed. All the glassware in his
house and in his drug store underne sth
danced to the music of the internal thun.
ders and for u time he made up his mind
that Yankton was called for by the powers
below. These are a few Of the experiences
of our people and they are sufficient to
prove conclusiyeiy that We had a lively
shaking up last night. The only outside
point we have heard from is Fort Sully and
the operator there reports an earthquake
about three o'clock this morning, but he
may be mistaken in regard to the time.
Vermillion. Elk Point and Sioux CITY re-
port no earthquake. The evidence goes to
show that last nights visitation was much
more severe than the earthquake which
occurred W years ago last month, when all
OF Southern Dakota was affected.