Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-12
THE EARTHQUAKE.
More ExperfenceS-Further ms to How it Acted in Other Towns in the State Stories Here and There.

More ExperfenceS-Further ms to How
 it Acted in Other Towns i'm the State
 Stories Here and There.
 In Hartford they at first thought that the shock caused by the earthquake was occa- stoned by an explosion at the Hazardvil1e powder mill.
 In Hartford, as in this city, people every where rushed out of doors, thinking their houses were coming down on their heads A lady residing on Ashley street, Hartford, was so frightened that when she got into the street she fell in a dead swoon and did not come to for several minutes.
 At Hockanum the shock was heavy enouoh to cause the church bell to ring. The earthouake showed it's effect on the river as
 well as on the land. The water at the time was almost mirror-like in it's smoothness. When the shock came @ rapid, hurrying rip ple ran across the water, followed almost in stantly by another, and then the entire sur face was roughened by waves from every di- rection A lad who was sitting on the edge of a skiff came near falling overheard from fright at the first shock.
 The weight of the earthquake was felt more on Asylum hill, Hartford, than in any other quarter of the city. On Sumner street the shock was great enough to cause a portion of chimney on P. s. Riley's house to be knocked down. A party of young men who were sitting on flight of stone steps on High street are confident that the stones were displaced half inch Scores of cases of crockery being jared from pantry shelves and vases tumbling from mantels were reported.
 In Danbury during the shocks a tea-kettle was thrown from 8 stove in one house and a child thrown out of bed. This, however, is discounted by the New Haven story that two policemen were thrown out of bed. More stories.
 In New London one man saw pack ot cards lying on 8 table spread themselves out and thinking the devil was manipulating them he fled from the dangerous proximity. Another person thought his telephone line had tapped some great reservoir of electricity and was pouring it upon him. He at once seized an axe, demolished the instrument and came out in the street to brag of his heroic deed.
 In Stamford a center table was overturned in the residence of R. H. Gillespie and a handsome ornament smashed. Pictures fell from the walls. Fifteen years ago similar shock was felt at night in Stamford and forty years ago still greater one was expert enced.
 Guests at the Sterling hotel, in Bridgeport, who were eating dinner, had cups and plates shaken from their fingers. On Washington avenue large window was shaken and cracked.
 Bricks were thrown from the chimneys of the residences of Augustus Plumb and Mrs. Catherine Beard in Stratford. Samuel Wheeler who is seldom frightened, was sud denly awakened from sound sleep and i'm agined himself sent for. gentleman at the Merwin House, Fair field, who is familiar with the motion attend ant to an earthquake, at once decided the na- ture of the shock which was distinctly felt all over town. No general alarm was appar- ent. The steeple of the Congregational church is said to have been visibly swayed. At Fairfield beach unusually high wave came ashore about five minutes after the quake.
 Bricks were thrown from chimneys on the premises of Horace Staples, F. H. Nash and w. T. Hull, Westport. The latter picked up yesterday morning between fifty and sixty bricks.
 At the Eagle Hose company's house in
 Birmingham the globes were thrown off the chandeliers.
 At Mrs. Selbie's millinery establishment on the third floor of the Barnum building, Bridgeport, the gas chandeliers were shaken to such an extent that it was feared the globes would fall to the floor. On the first floor of Thomas F. Hickey's residence at 14S Cannon street, Bridgeport, milk pitcher 4 was thrown from mantel. A kettle o1 water was overturned from stove at Richard Bennett's next door to Hickey's. The shock of the earthquake extended \ from Philadelphia on the south, to Brattle \ boro, Vt, and Portland, Maine, on the \ north: and from the Atlantic coast on the east, to Lake Erie on the west. It may have been slightly felt at some points beyond these boundaries, but the reports seem te confine the ''shake'' within these limits. II
 was, perhaps, the most severe along the water front of New York city, especially nea1
 Harlem, where the people were greatly alarmed, though no buildings were thrown down nor any lives lost.
 The time of the shock here in New Haven was precisely eight minutes past 2 o'clock.