Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-21
SLIGHTLY SHAKEN.

Several Eastern Cities. Visited by al
Earthquake Considerable Excitement
for Time.
About two o'clock Sunday afternoon the
residents of New York and vicinity were
startled by severe shock of earthquake,
lasting about ten seconds. At six p. IN.
particulars were received at the Western
Union office from the following points
The Atlantic Highlands near Sandy Hook,
Long Branch, Philadelphia, New Haven,
Boston, Elizabeth, Piaintield, Spring Lake,
Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard and Port
land, Maine. At the last point it was slight.
Reports were also received from many of the
sub offices about New York. Reports as to
its duration were diverse, but the average
seemed to be about ten seconds.
AT PHILADELPHIA.
The scaffOlding On some new buildings
going up on the corner of Reed street was
shaken violently and some bricks ON the
boards were shaken off and fell to the street
below.
AT sEABRoOK, N. ].
The severest shock was reported where
the depot was shifted in one side shaking
up its contents and alarming its sole in
mate. At 2:30 p. M. an Intellectual effort
was made to raise the Long Branch office
which had been in communication with
the local Office up to the time of the shock.
The operator Just had time to report the
shock together with the fact that the jars
of his battery had been overturned when
the wire gave out.
AT HARTFORD.
A bareheaded man rushed frantically to
the telegraph office holding in his hand
newspaper which he had been reading. He
said he had been shocked violently and
that the plastering on the ceiling above him
had been cracked and in some places had
dropped off on the floor.
AT BROOKLYN
In Brooklyn the streets were alive with
people who had come to ascertain the cause
of the rocking and gossip about it. One
cool headed observer, on the first percepti-
BILE motion, took out his stop watch and
timed the vibration. He reported that the
shock began, as near as could be deter
mined, at 2:e6I; that the first shock lasted
ten seconds, and that the ''quieting down."
as he described it, took nearly fifty seconds
more. Off-hand guesses as to its duration
varied from five seconds to two minutes,
according to the observers fright and his
judgment of the fight of time.
AT CoNEY ISLAND.
promptly asked for the particulars of the
explosion" suppOsing that some oil REIN
cry, powder mill, or dynamite factory had
blown up. A few minutes later, however,
the fact become known there that the whole
island had been thoroughly shaken by vi
bration and that guests and visitors were
very greatly alarmed, their freight in some
cases amounting to panic.
AT ATLANTIC CITY.
Neither Cape May nor Atlantic City no.
ticed any unusual motion, and so far as the
early reports indicate Philadelphia was the
southern limit of the shock.
AT CLEVELAND.
At Cleveland the shock was plainly but
slightly felt. In the main local telegraph
office the 100 people present felt serious
movement of their floor, the seventh story,
but there was no electrical phenomena con-
nected with it and no electrical disturbance.
THE FIRST IMPRESSION
which seemed to take possession of inmates
of houses in New York, was that the build
ing was about to fall, and people ran into
the streets only to discover their neighbors
rushing out amazed like themselves. Then
as there were no evidences of a catastrophe,
The people returned to their homes, realiz
ing that there had been an earthquake. As
\ rule the people remained in front OF
heir houses a few minutes, apparently |
lying to get at some solution of
heir fears, and watching the faces and
manner of others. Women and children, as
hey regained some degree of confidence, re-
urned to their houses, the men remained |
N groups in the streets discussing the &C.
,urrence so unexpected and SO startling, |
An earthquake is thing so unlocked for |
n this part of the world that its cause and |
he history of the most terrible ones be-
,ame the topics OF paramount interest. |
About all the people were concerned in
lying to find out from tho they talked /
with was whether second and perhaps |
subsequent shocks were likely to follow.