The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-03-04
TaR MOODUs NOISES.
Strange Sounds that sasa 90 Csns Frss
. Connecticut Hamlet.


Norwich, March 2.--The queer rumble and
Jar that were heard and felt In this city u. about
q quarter past 10 O'Clock on last Tuesday even
ing are generally accounted for on the theory
that an earthquake was the cause. But the
oldest residents here smile ut this eSpaha-
ton. Said one Of them TO the writer to-day:
This talk about earthquakes Is all nonsense:
the sound that was heard the other night was
simply one OF the Moodus noises. which have
not been heard before for n ycar or two" In
partial confirmation Of this theory ARE the Gu
rious facts that the noise heard on Tuesday
evening did not appear To roll along under tue
ground and did not provoke the reslins senea-
ton that is an accompaniment OF I'm earth
quake shock and that II was rather distant
boom. swelling heavily along above ground
and Earring the ntmos phere in ts march. Not
one in ten OF the persons on the streets that
night heard any sonnd or felt any Jar
Probably not over fftr persons suspected
there had been any. unusual "vent the night
before until they read the account in the morn
nnss. "sf mav H., I".!evei Is thai ,La sound was
heard Mt Intervals Of about an hour and L hrii
All night. One gcntI"man'l"scfitc, itas m" the
distant rel! Of ur"y 'nria-h over lr"itn
ground; TIRE io,.re'ncm - n,!",.h1 nYvd5
all describe 1t in eSactiy. VI. same terms. Ono
Of the "ilicers also saw the Ham ~ inete"r II.
says that ii appeared 20 b. ~ ipr.:cas street
lantern and rycrrjlnxly brilliant. falling in
fire aud smoke. and tint II wa. euGdrniy eAun-
yuished before il rsat' ed We t"ii2on. lady
who was rrtutnni; uuuc iruhwi thht IL
WAS full moon mil she rpt."d mat At Vas
flashing across the sky. IT, .ighL was equal 10
that OF u full mrou.
For over Il quarter Of century the strange
,Moodus noises " thtt my, titled the carry set.
heen heard mn'il winter hefors inst. ihey
nyo"mcd ont "gnig he.o: his'tlrtIy nudib!e III
ten mites WEES, of Ills civ ard nhont six miles
from the iitlr river hnm'"t 81 Moudus Al"
I'M? srN. Tie noises wore Grs, no'iccl in
| the early Intinn history ui The country about
il'r middle Gf TIE scyeniernth century. N2,9dus
vas, then n little. ,se,,"ncnt In the wo1as, on
| the bank Of the MooIus River Ut iis Junction
with the Connecticut. u Is Il brau,!tul yiilnrc
! II the Connc>ticut River. in the town Of East
llnddam. II Il tianked " Iona. sl2nins ,,i.s.
il G,,ysd to !. tho ISratory IN Villa tho.
! mysterious ihurd.r .iudnuiae,uscd and rolled
/ out over the surrounding ccun,ry icra distance
Of from fifteen To- twenty ,nii"s. The exact 'iu'e
on whic, the sounds were hrst araid Is NOT
known INT among the "ary Chronicles Of th',
! stat" ~ an uccount py u cieiSynian. VIII" lived
/ NJ Aloodus nbcht the mriie u tac latter hai
! Of til" seventeenth century. Il" wr"t" care.
I ful and detailed description OF III" n"''p@. No.
Iotuing 10 MIN me s4ul.,f were E.'fd Dos.
! distinctly after nsiItfail. They we!'ed up n II,
growing !ond.'r until tue ground seemed to hn
| sLnIen with the p"nlin.. shuut"r The cier4y
man pousiy ascribed The avn orship OF the
noses to, the dcvil, u.hrr accounts arp"ared
| aiterwar,!. About Inc MINI oi pc lieseht
I century the noises sltllen -tprpad ana were
not heard again for ncnrT n'ty wears. Then
, tney broke out again iben ccUscd ana We're
not noticed until. twp 'eis aso thcy We're
/ heard in New Londcn ana SHein II wac not
! many years al;o that AN old gent ictnnn Wts law
ing in Salem Who renemherea hcarin.s tntm in
his boylIood. Though the sound wn- borne
: over six mites OF hills ard valleys, ne said that
It was plainly audible. 1t WI, a dty boom that
4 flied all the air, and n its volume was 'oiuo-
thing like the roar 4 snri heard M ciStlace.
| In the early part Of this century in anthem
, tie history OF the Muodus nJlso Appeared
written ny n man Of glow ing fancy. II ascI ibrd
the noise to the growth OF q great cnrhuncle
under the crown Of the N ,o.lus Mountain for
/ it was the nature y! the gem as lon.. a. II Wls
/ imprisoned III the earth 70 unb psou It's is
content in groans and ruublings. The writer
then went on TO say that q icw years before an
English sailor. who Ind arrived in Moonus md
heard the sounds and who was familiar wi,
the legend Of the carbnncle. had gone 20 the
mountain one night and dug up the precious
! scone. Secretly he had sinugtlsi II nbourd his
vessel. and Til. ship sailed f"r England. In the
middle 81 the Atlantic the carbunrir eSpod rd.
I and the broken ship WIS enrli.i ia the bottom
OF the sea-. Alter acertn,n nulIper OF years, says
the story. Il new caibuncc VIII grow under the
mountain. and then the strange grnmbin,s
would arise again. ii IL the belief OF supersii-
tious Old people here that u now carhuuclc l.
growing under Mount Tom. and that the RUM
bic and lar Of last Tuesday evening viii 5e re-
peated tat intervals un,!l some vrnturesomo
J hand SarcS to uueartD he i'm sOleu stone.