Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-01-27
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A NIGHT OF TERROR.
A Thrilling Description of the Recent Earth
quake at Agram.

A Thrilling Description of the Recent Earth
quake at Agram.
The eminent Viennese feuilletonist, DR..
Johannes Ziegler, visited Agram after the
first earthquake, and gives graphic account
of the second: when arrived at the Gro
attain capital" he writes, "fair Agram was
reposing TRANQUILITY, bathed in the bright
morning light, on the silver white Save.
The city great part of which lies in the
valley, whilst its suburbs fringe the spurs of
the surrounding hills, is surmounted by the
old, square, brown towers, the copper-clad
roofs of which glittered like gold in the
sunlight. The view from the railway sta
ton was charming--an ideal picture of
peace and rest. Presently my carriage
turned corner and entered the nica,
Agram's Corse.
What change! All the houses more or
less wrecked, some burst asunder crosswise
from roof to basement, window frames torn
from their fastenings and hanging loose,
the roofs rent by huge breaches inflicted
upon them by falling gables and chimney
stacks, tottering walls, house fronts exhib-
iting vast ragged edged gaps, through which
one could see into forsaken rooms; bent,
toppling balconies, looking as if they must
tumble with a crash from one moment to
another; masses of rubble and dust covered
the roadways and sidewalks; The tall tow
ers split apart on all their four sides, in long,
deep vertical rents, irving the great blocks
of sandstone asunder. l made my way to
hotel and engaged room. Suddenly my
ears were greeted with-an outburst of dis
NAL barks and piteous howls, emanating at
first from dogs in the neighboring court
yards, and then taken up by others at some
distance off.
''At the same moment it seemed to me
as if giant foot had stamped twice upon
the flooring of my room, hard behind me,
with such tremendous force that the whole
apartment groaned and its four walls waved,
giving forth a sharp, cracking sound. 1t
was thrilling moment, but ere 1 drew in
my head to cast terrified glance around
my room 1 noticed that the long street
seemed to undolate with wave-ike convul-
sion, and observed a thin cloud of dust
arising from the roofs and glimmering in
the moonlight. Sparrows, twittering in
alright, and pigeons, loudly tapping their
wings, flew straight upward in great num-
bers. One could hear, inside the wrecked
houses, the frightful yells of cats, and loud
cock crowings resounded from every yard
in the neighborhood. The air became
filed with an evil stencil.
The whole house in which l was lodging
shook-I could feel it distinctly, for was
resting my elbows on the window sill-dur-
ing several seconds after the violence of the
shock was past and an engraving, suspend
ed from nail ia the wall of my room, swung
backward and toward with Gathering noise.
In few seconds the Ilica was filled with
white spectral figures. 1t was a CHASTITY,
weird spectacle. I went out, in order to
see what was taking place in the town. The
earth continued to tremble slightly. ALI of
a sudden a second shock took place, not SO
violent as the first, but strong enough to
aggravate the terrible panic of the populace.
In every direction 1 could see people
wildly running along, only dimly visible
while fitting through the black shadows of
| the narrow streets, but conspicuous, owing
| to the whiteness of their nightdresses, when
| they fled across the roadway from one street
corner to another, where floods of moon
shine illumined the crossings. Everybody
kept to the middle of the roadway, and
crouched as they ran. The Jellachich- Platz
was absolutely cramme dwith these fugitives.
Some few took forcible possession of sew
eral facres, there stationed, in order TO stO"
! away children, in then. Others sought shell
ter in few booths that had been hastily
run up in the center of the square. But even
these rough refugees could only accommo-
date a very few of the terror stricken towns
folk. The vast majority, some 1000 in
number, were compelled to stretch their
limbs on hard, bare ground. On the Zriny-
Platz, which is laid out as an ornamental
garden, children we're lying huddled togeth-
er on the damp sward, as close as herrings
in barrel, pitiably whimpering, while their
mothers stood near not knowing what to do
for their little ones, and sobbing aloud from
sheer despair
Their misery was heartbreaking to con-
template. 1 went back to the Jellachich-
Platz where there is an enormous cafe.
That vast establishment was crowded with
human beings in the strangest dishabilles,
rich and poor, gentle and simple, all packed
together so tightly that they could scarcely
bulge, with no light save the glimmer of a
few stearine candles. Next the cafe stands
the hospital Of the Brethren of Mercy. Its
| inmates, invalids and maniacs, were furi-
ously shaking the window easements, sceam-
ing to be let out and making frantic efforts
to get between the window bars and Jump
into the street. Meanwhile the ground con-
tinued trembling without cessation, states
and rubble streamed down unintermittently
from the house roofs. In the center of the
square to were aloft the gilded equestrian
statue of Jellachich- Ban, glittering in the
moonlight and waving its bright sword
high above the beads of the multitude.
Still the ground shook under us. and now
and anon a fresh shock caused us to stagger
like drunken men.
After each successive shock all the cocks
crew Justify in endless varieties of pitch. Al
about oclock a. m. was heard terrible
sound, like long drawn subterranean growl
Immediately followed by frightful thumps
quiverings and oscillations, which lasted
for several seconds. Nothing more awful
could be imagined. Women uttered un-
earthly screams and fell fiat down on the
ground in commissions. The men rushed
frantically together into the middle of the
roadways. Chimney-pots crashed down
tiles ratified off the roof, dust clouds filled
the air, sparrows flew pipingabout, innumer,
able dogs howled. In the profound silence
that succeeded the throe of this last shock
all the terrified cocks suddenly set up theil
Growing again. Then the moon sank il
darkness, and all was over until daybreaL
of that fearsome morning