Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-09-07

charge OF artillery In the direclio.. 80. &c
Mountain Pass in Taylor ro,., "
Twenty years ago, the Fam so,,nds
were heard in tie san-,s directi,n o onss
tinuing at inter'-als for two DAYS ~
scouV wa sent out BY Capt. lin
1aiia" 10 ascertain the carse hut
W y returned as wise as when thew
started.
Brentwood Bdhner: On last Mon
day from aboro 10 O'clock a. IN. until
p. III. our citizens heard sounds ne Of
distant thunder, or the sullen roar of
artiller:'. This was more especiallv
noticeable from twelve TO one O'Clock
Some supposed 1t was some one blast
ing Ia the vicinity of Brownwool.
many thought, upon first hearing. that
IL was thunder. but We're soon convinced
OF their mistake, as there were no
clouds visible. In the evening the
operator here received a telegram from
the operator at Williams Ranch saw.
ing that II had been heard at that
place, and iuquiring us to the reason
OF 1t, they surprising that Brentwood
had received some good news and
| were firing of anvils. The stage
driver from Cisco, upon his arrival at
sundowu, said that he first heard the
! reports short distance this side of
Cisco snd that he had continued to
hear them plainly for thirty miles.
| "A telegram was sent to Coleman
City making inquiry ia reference to
/ the matter, and the answer received
that, the reports were heard there, and
they supposed that it was Abilene cele-
brating her anniversary, by firing of
! cannons. This may possibly be the
correct explanation, but it is hardly
! probable that cauuom shots, and es-
, pecial!y any canuon that could be had
at Abilene could be heard at so great a
I distance.
1 Major Don Trent, of Williams
/ Rancne. heard ,he reports very dis.
1 tinctly from Honna vally, on the Cot
/ orado river, from there To where the
stage driver heard them in Eastland
/ cou y is at least twenty miles. They
were on tie line OF Brown and Co
inanche, and from there to Coleman
I City forty-fiVe miles, so the reports
were heard over territory of forty
five by eighty miles.
wills Point special: Considerable
| talk IS going on concerning reports
heard on last Monday, and great
many opinilms are expressed as to
what it was Some think lit was can
nonading ia Arkansas and some think
it volcanic eruptions somewhere,
while some 0hink it was isabrel's horn
and are beginning to hunt their
/ holes.
Stephenvil!le EMPIRE: Mr.. Riddle Of
| Stephens cennty tellsit on the streets
| of Stephen vile that the people of his
county heard fifty odd distinct reports
| resembling 'cannons, IN II direction
north Of their county. Perhaps this
was the sane noise our people heaCd
! last Mouday, which was attributed to
blasting in the quarries az De Leon.
Crockett hGtiOn. On last Monday,
I from II O'Clock a. IN. dlntil about s
O'Clock p. m. "a strange and most ua-
/ accountable noise was heard over Il
I large space OF our county. 1t is de-
/ scribed as sounding as if three CAR
mons, ou.a much larger thal the Others,
were rapidly beaded and discharged
/ The noise was heard in Crockett and
/ is reported from the south and north,
a distance of tlinty miles. Those south
of us thought it MAS the shooting Of
/ cannons ia Crockett. But iE Crockett
/ it came from the north. Several gen
tlemen living north of us. say twelve
| or ii teen miles, came to town and said
]
| accounts, the noise was a loud tiff, en-
miles south of Crockett Us at Crockett,
/ or fifteen miles north Of Crockett. All
agree in likeai8g il to the rapid dis
charge of heavy artillery. Since
/ writing the above we learn that this
| strange noise was NOTE cd in other por-
/ tons of the county than those ihdi-
I &C tied, and AL concur in giving th4 To-
cation of the origin of sound north of
them.
4 Seymour Cresset: A noise as of dis
{ t9nt thunder was heard in the north
vest at different times between ten
! o'clock a m and two O'Clock p. m. on
| MoEd ~ the 9th. A rumor came in
LATER that it was the report of cannons,
there being an engagement on the
Pease river OF United States troops
with 400 Comanche lndiens,
There have no doubt been other
notices which have escaped our atten-
ton but the above will show c0nclu-
sively that these strange sounds were
distinctly heard, or might have been
heard, all over the state.
We do not propose to offer any eX-
PLANTATION Evidently their origin
was not Local rs they were heard to
the northward at points as widely
separated as Cisco and Crockett.
The great volcanic eruptions in Java
began on Saturday, August 18th, add
coTtinued ctively until the Monday
following, at which time the noun
tain itself split into seven parts, open
ing wide assur,s which seemed to re-
lieve the pent-up fires. a dispatch
from Batavia, dated the 9th OF Au-
gust, published at the time, says:
Terrible detonations Were heard yes
terday from the volcanic island OF
Kanats A London special says:
After the sudden subsistence of the
disturbances in the kingdom OF Ban,
tam Monday, the erupiions seemed
to lose their force for some time,
and the people of Batavia eeX-
perienced feeling of relief in the
hope that the worst had past. the
uuieter conditions continued untll
about 10 o'clock, when the craters once
more began to send up great masser OF
destructive matter, although without
the force of the former actions. Inc
eruptions seemed more Violent al
night than during the day. by y
O'Clock the papandayanS, when is
7,O34 feet high, was IN very active
state of paroxysmal eruption. IL was
accompanied BY detonations SAID 10
be heard miles away i'll Sumatra
Suddenly the ene was changed