The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-18
EARTHQUAKE.
We Have a Sensation IN this City
and Vicinity.

There is 10 longer ang doub! Of il
ne have had q violation of earth
quake. 4 few persons in this cit
s,outly declared on Thursday nigh
that they had been aroused by aI
earthquake shock; while others, who
had been awake, as siouily denied the
statement, and ridiculed 1t heartily.
But on Friday morning persons hT-
ing in different portions of the city
announced the shaking they received,
and those EhO had not felt ii gradu-
ally began to think they had been re-
marksbly dull, but we're positive they
had not noticed 1t. However, testi-
mony not to be questioned, is to the
effect that about 10 O'Clock on Thurs
day night, or few minutes after, s
shock OF earthquake was felt. In
some houses il ratified dishes, shook
beds and banged doors; while in
Others it was sufficiently observable 10
arouse persons soundly asleep. How
long it lasted is unEnowp, as no one
seems to have had sufficient presence
OF mind to note the time. 1. is pretty
certain, howsvsr, that the esrtn
quiYered little first, in a second
after there wAs pretty hard shock,
and a second later one s.ill harder,
and then al subsidized. Persons who
felt il the keenest assert that
the sensation it produced at first
was like that one feels from
an electric shock, while some
it turned quite sick. It's course ia
not knowD, bat those who felt il
state that it seemed to run from the
southwest 10 northeast. Il vas not
felt on Main street at all, and appears
to have been confined TO that portion
OF the city running from the north
east corner to the southwest corner,
the other portion missing it entirely. |
1t was all the talk on the streets, and |
those who ridiculed the idea in the |
morning gradually came to admit |
the fact towards evening, as there |
was plenty of the most vsIacious testi-
mony. No damage was done, but
IN one house a short distance from
the Theatre it raised ths ends OF the
flooring until it looked just as if
it we're warped.
It was also fel. at Alta. Bingham,
Sandy, West jordan, ToqueIvllle, |
South Cottonwood and other settle
ments south of this city. At Alta a
gentleman there states that 1t shook
the houses so roughly that those
aeleap were aIaked; windows and
iishes ratified, doors banged,
Ind it seemed "a though the walls
we're falling. This was also about
10 o'clock, while there and in ether
places mentioned q second shock was
eIt about half an hour later, though
much lighter. 10 these places also,
be shocks were preceded by low
noise. not at all unlike dis
ant thunder, excepting that il
,ouid be felt the rambling was IN
he earth. Ia South Cottonwood
t was probsblymore severe than any
where else. There thu inhabitants
gere nearly all in bed, eDd it was 60
leavy that many ran out OF their
louses in their night clothes. into the
treets and into other houses.
At Provo, also, the sensation vas
manifest. One young gen
lemsn, just up from there, states |
hat it was difficult to maintain ones
eet while it lasted. L seemed as
hough the walls Of buildings would
all on the citizens; the windows
appeared ss if they would fall in; the
abies, chsi-s aud beds shook and
he dishes ratified very heavily. At
Provo two shocks were felt, one about
o'clock. The first shock was felt at
he came time in ell the places meL.
Toned.
So lar as has been ssce1tained none
# the settlement north OF this city
the favored shake; and
nus Ogden snffers another injustice
which her good people will yet resent.