The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-11

shaken violently, and some bricks on III.
ooards were shaken of and fell 10 the street
below. ~. ='.E5-ilI W. =
THE eEvEREsr sIlccK.
The severeat shock ives reported from
seabrisht, MI, whsre the depot WIS shit.
cd over on one side, shaking up the con,
tents and alarming the inmates. At2SO
Pm, an .ine Gectual effort was made 10
raise the Long Branch ofice, which had
been in communication with the local
ofics up to the time Of tho shock, The
operator jpst had time to repor. the shock
together, with the fact that the jars Of his
battery bad been overturned when the
wire gave GU. At Hartford bareheadpd
msn rushed frantica!ly 70 the telegraph
o6iue holding in his hand newspaper
which he had been reading. He said be
had been shocked, violently and that the
pla7sering above hiu had besu cracked,
and in some places had dropped to the
Fl ,or. a z s l.-5fii,S 5,,.7.,1ir. !, IS
In Brooklyn thestreets we're alive With peo.
PIE who had come out to ascertain the cause
Ut the rocking and gossip. One cool.hoad.
ed oh-erver on tbs first percep.ible ehock
took out his watch and timed the yibra.
tlons. He reported that the shock began.
cl nearly as could be determined, at 2.OS:
that the first shock lr7ted lust ten seconoa'
and that the "quieting down." as he de-.
serlbed it, took nearly fifty seconds more.
OH band g1c.3-s s7 70 the duration varied
from five seconds to tive minutes sccordir Q
to the amount Of the obs -ryer's fright anu
his JUDGMENT Of the flight Of time. al
MEMO Park and Trenton tho shock we-
timed at 2:05, whils at Il more Routhetly
points OF It's orbit it Wet felt at a:IO.
Exaggerated reports came in IRON various
points. From Trenton 1t was reported
that the water in the river ws1 lc7hed into
loan. A pac7enger arriving from Tren-
ton soon after, however, said the story wr7
absurd, and that the water we3 e. placid
and muddy as usual.
+ THOUGHT IT WAS AN EXPLOSION,
The telegraph mansgsr at Coney Island
promptly asked for the particulars Of the
"explosion," aappeaing some oil rsfiae,y,
powder mill or dynamite factory had
blown up. A few minutes later, how.
ever, the fac! became . known there
TINT tho whole island had been thorouyhly
shaken by the vibrations, and that ,he
guests aud visitors were very greatly alarm
I'd, the fright in some instances amounting
to q panic. Neither Cape May nor Alluns.
tic City noticed any unusual motion. end
so far as the early reports indicate Pnila.
delphia ~ss the southern limit OF the
shock. At Cleveland the shock wau plain.
ly but slightly felt. In the main local teI.
egrsph officeSihe hundred people present
felt q seriouss movement Of their floor, the
seventh story, but there was no electrical
phenomenonlconnected with it and no cleo
trical disturbance. u * {sEl ." -
The first impression which seemed to rake
possession of the inmates Of hou. es in New
York was that the building WIS about to
fall; and the people ran into the streets
only to discover their neighbors rushing
out amsz ID ,liks themselves. -
. at the Observatory Of The United States
sc aal Service the time Of the earthquake
and its duration was noted. Aasis.ans OBJ.
servers Rehenman and Merring were al the
time in the office, about twenty feet above
the street. t 5}sE,l ,ss' :ff95 a.siI