The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-21

~ was thrown from his chair, but NO
h. hurt. The globes of the lamps in hi.
h Office were cracked. The ceilings In
n the tenth precinct station-house were
!, badly cracked, and the frame house al
+ 147 Lewis street was cracked in sever.
IS al places and one of the women who
= lives in the house became unconscious
It from fright. a street car in avenue
n ID was lifted from the track several
O times, and several houses are reported
thrown down. AT the drug store cor
8 ner of Ninety-ninth street and Tenth
d avenue several bottles were thrown
g from the shelves.
S THE TOWERS osCILLATED.
d The policeman of the Brooklyn
4 bridge reports the shock distinctly felt
: there and the great towers at either
e end oscillated Yisibly, while the bridge
5 itself rocked. The shock of earth
quake was felt generally along the
: river fronts, and piers were shaken as
: if heavily loaded trucks were passing
over them.
At the iron steamboat pier, which is
structure of solid masonry, the mo-
ton was so violent that ticket-takerS
rushed from their Office to ascertain
the cause.
Late in the afternoon the boats
brought back crowds from Coney
island. There the shock seemed to be
much more violent than here. The
piaZZas and dining-rooms of the great
hotels were well filled, when a rumb-
ling noise was heard, followed by the
rocking of the ground, which made
the windows rattle and shook the
dishes and wine-glasses from the ia
bles. There was a general rush for
the open air, and for some time great |
excitement prevailed.
AT the new piers there was SINH |
lar shock, and, according to the story |
of one of sailors, there was distinct
ly felt jar, which was notictd by all |
aboard. Persons travelling on street |
cars felt the vibration, and in many
instances the wheels of cars seemed to
leave the track, producing the same
effect as when they passed over loose
switch.
A CHURCH BELL RANG.
The bell of the Presbyterian church
in Greenpoint swayed back and forth
and rang several times, loud enough
to be heard by all the people in the
neighborhood.
Other evidences of the violence of
the agitation in Brooklyn may be
mentioned, such as stopping of clocks,
throwing down of high piles of
bricks, swinging the lamps and pic
lures and the like.
Many Sunday were in ses-
sion at the time, and teachers had, in
some cases, great difficulty in allaying
the terror of the children and prevent
ing panic.
From reports received from Long
Island it appears the earthquake visit
ed there with greater severity than in
this city. Along the Atlantic coast
of Long Island the shock was very
violent, and the vibrations seemed t.
increase in power as they travelled |
eastward.
In Jamaica the vibrations lasted ten [
seconds, and the chimneys on several {
houses toppled over. No seri us |
damage, however, is reported from s
any place. i
In Long Island City, Flushing, !
Whitestone and College Point the
trembling of the ground was distinct /
ly felt, and shaking of houses was per ]
ceptible. a
Two hundred and fifty guests at G
the Long Beach hotel ran from the {
dining-room to the beach and refused d
to return to the building for some r
time, fearing recurrence of the shock. C
The amount of alarm caused by the Y
earthquake everywhere was simply '
astounding, and was the theme of $
conversation far into the night, while a
preachers in many churches discourse u
ed upon the subject. People prayed s
who never prayed before, and those u
who may have prayed before only b
yUOTnop fold thoir anH rooitoI |
pater and ave, while men of the faith
made the sign of the cross. Every
body confessed TO being possessed of q
very peculiar feeling during and +
after the shock, and few t
there were who envied the positions a
of the occupants of the ten-story fiat. +
There are many thanksgivings at i
vespers service that the present vista n
ton was not more severe, and prayers Q
were offered that the occurrence of
earthquake may not be attended by T
more serious disaster. )
Reports from many parts of this h
state, Connecticut, New Jersey and +
Pennsylvania show that the shock was 0
felt about the same as in this city and
was attended with no more grave r
damage than the trembling CT old /
chimneys or the rattliDg of dishes. +
Some women at different points are
said to have tainted, but no one, SO
far as known, died from fright.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j. q
WASHINGTON, August 1.0-The sig G
nal officer reports no earthquake dis I
turbance here, nor in Baltimore. The Y
vibration, however, was very percept
ible at Atlantic City, n. j., and was S
also observed at the Delaware break t
water, but to less degree. The sig i
nal station at the latter place is on the a
breakwater, some distance from the ]
shore. S
PITTsBURe, August 1O-As far as {
heard from the earthquake shock re- +
ported from the east this afternoon
was not felt in western Pennsylvania. I
CONGREGATION sTAMPEDED. t
PHILADELPHIA August 10.-Special
press from Macungie says shock of
earthquake was felt there this after {
noon. The German Reformed church,
in which services were going on, was {
shaken, a panic ensued and the con-
gregation fled precipitately. After the
shock services were resumed, although
the congregation was much fright !
ened.
FELT AT WASHINGTON. {
WASHINGTON, August 10.-More
extended inquiry leads to the conclu- I
sion that to-day's earthquake was felt t
here. Many individuals announced '
that they had observed some unusual
phenomena, but none of them could {
describe with any degree of definite
ness the disturbance until Commander '
Sampson, assistant superintendent of ]
the Naval observatory, was heard '
from. He was in the second story of
his residence, adjoining the obserya- {
tory, about o'clock, when he found
his windows ratified, and articles on
the handicapped table moved per-
ceptibly. The phenomenon lasted six
teen seconds. Nothing of the kind
was discernible in the lower floors of
the building.
AROUND BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE. August 10.-Residents
in the hills and highlands surrounding
the city report that slight shock of
earthquake was felt shortly after
o'clock to-day. In this city it was not
perceptible. kilograms from Rock
vile, Montgomery county, and
Mechanicstown in Frederick, report
that slight shock was felt.
THE SHOOK AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, August 10.-For
the first time since January 8, 1917, a