Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-02
AT OTHER POINTS.
In Missouri.

from interior towns, adjacent to this city
are coming to giving brief accounts of the
earthquake last night. At Murphysboro,
ILL.,, the shock was quite severe. Brick
walls shook, glassware clinked and hanging
lamps were sent swinging like pendilums
Doors vibrated Us if shaken by unseen
hands. The fire bell on the Court House
kept up rapid alarm for more than min
ute. The Forester Lodge assembled i'll the
second story, in the center Of a
brick block. felt SO violent II
rocking that it broke up in utter
confusion, the members forgetting to re-
move their regalia, and without hats
rushed down into the street. 4 barkeeper
suddenly
FELT LIKE HE WAS DRUNK
and clung to his bar counter. Suspended
lamps swung east and west. Some people
were affected with great nausea. There
were two distinct shocks lasting about Il
minute.
At Decatur Ills, the shock was felt
quite senSibly 1t ratified and shook arti-
cles in dwellings, and swaycd business
buildings slightly north and south. At
one hotel the proprietor got his lantern and
sought the cellar to see if the foundations
were not tumbling, while the Occu-
pants of rooms ran out into
the street. No damage but some fright
ensued.
At Greenville, ILL.,, there were lively
shocks at intervals OF about half minute,
and buildings were rocked under their
action but no damage was done.
At Jacksonville, ILL.,, buildings vibrated
from east to west, tables and other articles
tipped and people were greatly frightened.
A COUNCIL SCARED.
At Vicksburg, Miss, the City Council
was in session, and the City Hall, a very
irail building, constructed on high brick
pillars under which is the city market, was
made to rock so that the board adjourned
suddenly and unceremOniously. The shock
was also felt in other places throughout the
city.
At Hannibal, Mo-, the walls of brick
buildings tremblcd, and in some cases
swayed. One or two meetings adjourned
hastily, and the printers in the Journal
Office dropped their sticks and prepared to
rum but the shock was over before they
got started;
People Made Sick.
SCHENECTADY, y. Y, September l.
Earthquake shocks were felt at $50 and
and 9:36 o'clock last evening. Many per
sons were made sick for two or three hours.
The Beginning of the Trouble.
New YORK, September 1.-The earth
quake Tuesday evening, which caused de-
structiOn and death to Charleston, was
preceded by other shocks beginning Us
early us last Friday, which were felt both
in South Carolina and Georgia.
Observations at Washington.
WASHINGTON, September l.-Mr. lu-
Glen NJ. Turner, OF the Smithsonian lnsti-
tute, says that two more earthquake shocks
were felt here to-day, one At s:2l Il. H. and
the other at 5:l5 p. III. They were very
slight.
The Earthquake at Parkersburg.
SperiH telegram 10 The Register.
PARKERsBURG, W. va, September l..
A very heavy earthquake shock was felt
here last night about 10 o'clock. Houses
were shaken from root TO foundation, peo-
pie in their beds were rocked to and fro
with a strong, osculating motion, pictures
were thrown from the walls, mantles and
brackets, doors slammed and windows rat
tied. Many persons were badly frightened
in some instances women, who were with
out masculine protection at the time, gath
ering together their children, left their
homes, which they feared would
tumble about their ears, and
ran to their ncighbOrs for protec-
ton from an unseen danger. Men congre-
gated on the corners and discussed the
danger, some of them in a very serious
manner. Several citizens were attacked
with vertigo and made quite ill: Every
body has story and experience of his
own. In squad of eight men this morn
ing, among the different phases of expert
/ ence, it was amusing to learn that at least
six out of the eight had, ut their wives
suggestion, looked under the bed for the
| traditional burglar, who was believed TO
/ be the cause of tine movement OF the bed.
/ 1t would take a column of space to de-
scribe the different stories told of last
nights earthquake fright. From Volcano
and other points tales of similar eX Xperiencc
continue to arrive, with accounts of fall
! ing chimneys and cracking walls.