The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-25
OHIO, MICHIGAN AND INDIANA
SHAKEN BY THREE SHOCKS
CONSERVATION.
Shocks Accompanied by the
Usual Sound of a DISTANT
Explosion.
Strong Buildings Swayed and
HOrrified People Rush to
the Streets.
Dishes Rattle and Window
Glass BrOken-Terrify-
ing Scenes.
Particulars of the Earth Waves.


Three distinct and heavy shocks OF
earthquake were felt here at IA
p. m. The largest buildings rocked
slightly. The motion was felt plain
est in upper stories. Telegraph anC
other wires quivered and attracted
attention, and many people felt sen.
satiOn of dizziness peculiar to such
commot1OnS. The vibrations extended
over a period of ten to fifteen seconds
No noise was noticed. No damage
reported. This seems to have been
near the eastern border of the earth.
quake, extending as it did west as faI
as central Indiana at least, and north
into Michigan.
Reports received this evening indi-
cry, Ravenna, Sidney, Marion, Sandus-
ky, Urbana, ,Kenton, Cresline, Coldwater
and Upper Sdndusky, Ohio, Union
City and Muncie, Indiana, felt the
earthquake slightly, but at Alliance
not at all. 1t was strong in Belle
Fontaine. In Lima it shook the larg-
est buildings. In the town of Ottawa
it ratified tableware and almost caused
panic at reunion being held in
the court house. AT Dupont the
shock was felt plainly; it knocked
down crockery. At Findlay a severe
shock; at Holgate it was felt plainly;
stopped the clocks; and at Norwalk
it gave us good shake. At Clyde it
raJtled the windows and scared the
women. At Rawson the shock was
plainly felt.
1t was accompanied with a rum
bling noise, and is all the talk of the
town. At Blutfton it was plainly felt;
shook houses, making windows and
doors rattle, and the people were badly
frightened.
At Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, September ia few
minutes before o'clock this after
noon the telegraph operator at the
Bee line depot in Cincinnati received
dispatches from operators all along
that road from Cincinnati to Lafay-
cite, Ind, inquiring if an earthquake
shock had been felt in Cincinnati, and
stating it had been perceptible at the
offices from which the inquiries were
sent. About 8 o'clock, Cincinnati
time, the operator perceived slight
tremor in the building. The same
thing was noticed in various offices in
the city, but was not attributed to an
earthquake until dispatches from the
west came in.
In Cummingsville, in the north
western ward of Cincinnati, the tre-
NOR was felt so distinctly as to
cause quite an alarm, not only in the
public schools, where the pupils were
with difficulty kept in their seats, but
also in private houses. The house of
Capt. Frazier, of Cummingsville, was
violently shaken, so that the inmates
became alarmed.
In the Mornington school house in
the northeast part of Cincinnati, an
agitation was felt which was recog-
nized at once by the teachers as that
of an earthquake. 1t required all the
authority OF the teachers to avoid a
panic. The shock was so slight in
the business portion of Cincinnati as
rot to be noticed by the majority of
citizens.
In Covington, KY, Mr.. Worthing-
toms residence, on Foutth street, was
so violently shaken that his little
daughter, lying sick in bed, screamed
with terror, saying that some one was
moving the bed. The family OF Aug.
Haven, next door, were at dinner, and
the shock came so severely as to spill
water from the glasses on the table,
and the family spral2g to their feet IN
alarm.
The assistant observer at the Unit
ed States signal station was reading
the thermometer for several minutes
between 2:30 and o'clock. He says
he noticed no agitation of the mer-
curry or the building at that, or any
other time during the afternoon.
The duration of the shock is varl-.
ously reported from ten to twenty
seconds.
Messages from Indiana report the
shock was felt at Seymour, few
minutes before three o'clock, and that
it was also felt with great severity IN
Ind, about the same
time, in the latter town so violent as
to be recognized by every one as that
of an earthquake. 1t cansed great
alarm in a school-house, which was
soon vacated by the pupils; the clock
was thrown from the shelf, and most
of the children in the school in their
frantic endeavors to get out of the
building, jumped out of the windows
of the lower story. None were hurt.
The indications are that the wave
passed from southwest to northeast.
The Area of the Shock.
TOLEDO, September 19.-Reports
from various points in this vicinity
show the shocks of the earthquake,
which occurred this afternoon, have
BEEN quite general throughout north
western Ohio and southern Michigan.
The duration of the shock was ten to
thirty seconds, and the course app9r-
emily from southwest to northeast.
It was most violent at Defiance
Ohio, where the swaying of buildings
created much CONSERVATION. People
hastily abandoned their houses and
the Methodist conference, in session
at the church, Immediately adjourned
A meeting of the ladies' missionary
society, in progress at the time, was
quickly dismissed. Glass was broker
in number of buildings, but ne
serious damage was done. At Cecil
Ohio, goods in stores were thrown
from the shelves, and passen
gers at the railway station, raI
out, thinking a train haC
struck the building. At Napo
leon, Clyde, Bryan, Fosteria
Archibald and intermediate points
the shock was distinctly felt rattline
windows and crockery, but, as far a!
reported, doing no material damage
In this city large building occupied
by the Milburn Wagon company wa
perceptibly shaken, the employee
,apposing it to have been caused b,
he moving of heavy machinery.
noise similar to that produced by
distant explosion is said to have beel
heard in some parts OF the city, Will
in other portions the shock was un
noticed.
Pretty Heavy at Columbus.
COLUMBUS, O., September 18th
shock of an earthquake was felt her
at 2:45 D. m., swaying objects percept
| iblv toward the south and bach
| There were two vibrations. distinctl
| marked, and some report third, NOR
/ gentle. The two motions occupie
about a second each. They were fel
in every part of the city and in a
surrounding towns for radius of 10
| miles. In the upper stories of th
state house, city hall and asylum
the occupants got out quick as po
Sible. At the insane asylum one chal
delier was swung so muchas to fall an
break to pieces. An arch of a churc
| in course of construction was jarrt
so that 1t fell, Dishes were dlsplace
! windows ratified, pictures and chande
iers set swinging.