The Press., 1884-08-14


 THE north Atlantic states experienced the novelty of an earthquake last Sunday at about 2:O7 p. m., the area of disturbance - being New England, Eastern New York, New Jersey and the vicinity of Philadel- phia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. The reports from the vari- ous parts of the troubled district are ex- tremely conflicting but in general they agree that there was trembling of the earth for 8 space of half a minute, suffi- cient in some instances to dislodge light articles, and set chandeliers to swinging. This motion was accompanied by rum bling sound as of heavy truck rapidly drawn over rough pavement. No damage beyond some bad cases of fright was done anywhere, but in some localities the dis turbance seems to have gone to the verge of demolishing buildings, chimneys and tall structures swinging very nearly out of plumb, and heavy articles, such as safes, being moved by the inclination made by the earth tremor.
 
 ing over the disturbed territory, terribly frightening people in some places and pass ing lightly over their near neighbors. Even in the same village one locality would feel it and another escape.
 Slight shocks were felt in different places Sunday night and Monday morning, Long Island also experiencing little disturb ance on Monday afternoon.
 The large two ton safe in the office of the Manhattan beach hotel (Coney Island) was moved about three inches along the floor, scraping the plaster off the wall against which it rested and denting the floor considerably.
 At house on Pennington avenue, Hart ford, South American relative who ar rived in that city Saturday night had been telling stories of his travels and experience of earthquakes to a family party when the shock came, and the narrator went on calmly remarking, "And I see you have them here, too"
 A Mrs. Welch, recently removed with her family from Contra Costa county, Cal, to New York, said to a reporter "I told my husband at breakfast that it was sshaky' weather. We know what dull, heavy at { mOSpu0r0 WlGu I0du0Il-COlOT6O SKY m68uS, for on the western slope earthquakes ares more common in some places than thun-| der storms. I was feeling rather home sick, " continued the lady, ssand when my window began to rattle I will admit I smiled. It made melthink of home, you know. Warner, my little boy, playing in the yard and came running in, shouting, 'Oh, mamma, did you feel the little earth quaker Its just like home, ain't it ?"
 The New York Tribune says:
 A gentleman living on Seventy -third-st., west of the Central Park, said that he wss looking from the window at the moment of the earthquake, and people on the side walk seemed to reel like drunken men and ! clutch at the railings. In the Chelsea, private boarding house in Twenty second st., many of the people rushed out of the house and one woman tainted.
 A train on the Metropolitan Elevated railway rolled out of the station at One -sixteenth-st a few minutes after 2 o'clock. The conductor thrust his head through the open door and called Cone hundred and -fourth-st next" Then he leaned dreamily over the gate and unused softly while looking into the street far below. The engineer applied the rocun brake and the train crept with a