Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-09-04
AN EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.

A slight earthquake shock was
felt in Baltimore Tuesday night, and
as people were not looking for it, it
created no little excitement. The
earthquake was very perceptible in
East Baltimore, and in some locali-
ties caused much alarm, especially
among the females. 1t was not felt
to any great extent by persons on
the streets, but those in the houses
and very many who were in bed felt
1.-THE quake. The first quake &C.
CURED about five minutes before ten
o'clock. 1t lasted but a few seconds.
In all parts of East Baltimore, more
especially east of Broadway, the
quake brought a large number of
excited and frightened women and
children to the street. Some fed
from their houses to escape any I'M
pending danger, aud others to see
what caused the shaking. While
some persons felt the quaking in one
house, others in an adjoining house,
and sometimes in the same house
did not feel the shock. A Lang
number of women tainted, and
others were made unwell by the
shock to there nervous systems. In
many cases children who had been
abed were very much frightened.
WASHINGTON, August 31.-At
$50 o'clock tonight the desks in the
Associated Press office in the Cor
coran building began to vibrate in a
peculiar but unmistakable fashion,
that suggested an earthquake. Two
shocks occurred, the second shock OF
longer duration and more severe
than the first and a few seconds
later. II was felt in all parts of the
city and created considerable con-
sternation. Several meetings in
progress in various parts of the city
were broken up by the frightened
members thinking the buildings
were falling, rushing from the halls
into the street. At Albaugh's
Opera House the large audience be.
came frightened by the shaking of
the building, and stampede en-
sued. The occupants of the gal
leries, mainly gentlemen, jumped to
their feet as soon as the shaking be-
gan, and rushed pell nell down the
stairs, falling over one another in
their efforts to escape from the build
ing, and stopped for nothing until
fhnv rQaahoA tho strait
7 CINCINNATI. o., September l.
A singular effect of last nights
earthquake was the very general
feeling OIL dizziness that it caused.
Nine people out of ten imagined
they were sick, and many did not
know till this morning that the dis.
turbance was in Mother Earth.
MOONEY, IND, Sept. 1. On.--the farm
Christian Linkenbach Sunday morn
ing, one of the most severe of these
explosions occurred, not over one
hundred and fifty yards from the
house. The noise was like the eX.
plosion OF a steam boiler, and the
earth was torn up for yards around.
A cloud of smoke and dust ascend.
ed sixty feet high. In it were pieces
of mineral, stumps of trees, roots
and rocks. The earth for yards
around was covered with the debris,
and great hole was left in the
ground, very deep, which has not
yet been explored. Among the
debris were fragments of ore, which
are almost solid iron. The country
is very rough and boken, and well
filled with minerals.
MEMPHIS, TENN.-Many who were
within their offices and residences
fed into the street. Numbers who
had retired, feeling the sensation,
rushed out of their dwellings,, not
waiting to dress themselves. Guests
at the Peabody Hotel hurried down
stairs, thinking the building was
falling. 1t was the same all over
the city, and many women went into
Mysteries. 1t was the severest shock
ever experienced in this section OF
the country.
Recommendations swayed,
bricks we're shaken from chimneys,
and a great many people ran from
their beds into the streets.
RICHMOND, August ga shock
OF earthquake was felt here at 9:55
P, NJ. Houses were shaken, in many
instances. severely. Many persons
ran into the streets. some halfdreSs.
ed.
The Western Union operator at
Bowie, Nd, about twenty miles from
Washington, telegraphs that the
earthquake cracked the walls of his
station and stopped the clock.
CULPEPER.--Houses were shaken
so as to arouse the occupants from
sleep, and pictures frames suspended
to the walls were set in motion.
MEANWHILE, Pa, August 31.-At
10 p. M. an earthquake shock was
felt, followed Immediately by a
slighter shock, the whole lasting
about 20 seconds. The streets were
at once filled with people. The
guests rushed out of hotels in their
night clothes, women and children
we're crying and screaming, and
every one more or less alarmed. AS
far as learned, no damage has been
done.
The LUTHERAN DAY AT PEN
MAR. Wednesday, Sept. s, 1885,