Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-04
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Carrollton Times At 500 O'Clock on
Tuesday night this city was shaken by an
earthquake shock. The vibrations con-
tinued about sixty seconds with such
force that the plastering in several houses
were broken and brick walls cracked.
Sheriff Hewitt reports crack about tive
feet long in the wall of the Jail. The
brick store occupied by McCord Il Shaw
shows number OF cracks in the walls.
The plastering in the Methodist
church is badly broken. The direction
OF the vibrations seemed to be from
west, about 10 deg. north, to east. Several
persons report two or three distinct
shocks with intervals OF fifteen minutes
between. The Inhabitants were gener-
ally much excited. 1t was something
new in their experience. Most of those
who We're above stairs made rush for
the ground floor, and not few sought the
streets, and for an hour after the severe
shock little groups might have been seen in
every street, exchanging experiences,
and for some hours yesterday morning
the earthquake was all the talk about
town.
At :15 O'Clock Thursday morning, as
Patrolmen Phillips and Sherman we're
perambuating their beat on Marietta
street, Atlanta, they heard loud cries for
help in one-StOry brick dwelling not far
from the Atlanta cotton mills and has
tened to investigate. Patrolman Phillips
entered the front door of the house, while
the other officer went around to the rear.
AS the former passed the threshold OF the
front door man sprang through Win
dow and was seen and shot at by Off1cer
Sherman. The shot did not take effect,
however. 1t seems the maa entered the
house tor the purpose OF outraging
widow lady who resides there
with her mother. The lady lay asleep on
her bed in a room next to the one in which
her mother slept. She had on all her
clothes, being prepared to escape In the
event OF a repetition of Tuesday nights
earthquake. The fend entered her room
through a window, and was just getting
on her bed when she gave the alarm, but
not until she had screamed twice did ne
take his departure through the window.
The lady's mother, through the open door
between the rooms, saw the man get out
of the window, but thought it was her
daughter escaping from another earth
quake.
Americas Recorder: The people of
Americas have long read OF earthquakes,
but few of them, previous to Tuesday
night, ever experienced one, and although
their experience was mild, few care again
to renew the experience. About $500 p.
m. those indoors were startled by the rat
Ting OF windows and doors, followed by
a decided trembling of the whole build
ing, with slight swaying moJion. This
was repeated three times. lasting prob
ably a minute each time. Afterward
there were a couple of very slight tremb-
lings. Many did not know whatto make
OF il, and after the first shock supposed
| that some one was moving heavily about
the house, while others thought some one
was trying to effect an entrance into the
house. By the time the second shock
came, however, the people generally be-
gan TO realize what 1t meant and became
alarmed. Many ran from their houses
out of doors, fearing that the buildings
would fall unon them. There WAS, how
ever, no general panic, and things soon
and felt Meth er shock nor alarm.
Those on the ground seemed
to feel no motion, and knew OF
| no cause for alarm until others ran out OF
| the houses. The shocks were preceded
by a low, rumbling noise like that of a
railroad train in the distance. The sky
was clear and bright and there was no
| wind, nor was there that peculiar calm
| which it is said precedes the shock of an
earthquake, In several houses the clocks
stopped at the precise moment of the first
shock. There was no damage done, and
we have not heard of any cracked walls
or any article being thrown down and
broken.
Gainesville Eagle: Last Tuesday night
about 800 O'Clock, when the skies were
bright and clear, and the stars were shin
ing brightly; when no cloud obscured the
heavens, and all nature seemed peaceful
and at rest, a slight tremor crept along
| the ground; easements began TO shake
- 10 ss,a far 1o fha& -t,1
set earth shook and staggered like a
| drunken man. Hundreds in our city,
who had not yet retired for the night, be-
came alarmed and rushed from the tot
| tering buildings into the streets,
| realizing that an earthquake
one of those terrible commissions
of nature for which there is no positive
way OF accounting, and In the presence
of which the stoutest hearts are appalled,
was upon them. Houses shook and
! swayed to and fro as if thew would soon
be shaken from their foundations. Bells
rang; cattle, disturbed by the unusual
| connection, lowed aud beloved in az
| fright; chickens and other birds testified
| their alarm by clamor unusual at such
| an hour; but it was reserved for the peo-
| ple-especially our colored citizens-to
| manifest their alarm by their cries OF
| terror and to Ill the air with prayers for
1 alC anu VI IIeuLlb0
| Within q minute or less the first and
strongest shock had passed. AT short in
| tervals several slight tremors OF the earth
were felt, but it was soon realized that the
worst was over, the danger had passed.
and almost as sudden as it came the
alarm was followed by that sense of re-
| lief which consoles and suStains us after
| having escaped some fearful danger. No
| damage, further than the fright that I'M
settled the nerves of almost every one,
| was done. The firm-set earth moves on
in its accustomed course; every one has
| resumed his usual business, and now all
regard the earthquake as only thing of
the past-One not likely TO occur again in
their experience-and treat the matter
either with seriousness or levity, as the
circumstances by which they were sur
rounded or the peculiarly OF their tenn
| peraments impressed them at the time
| this most stupendous and wonderful phe-
nomenon in nature occurred.
FLORIDA.
Only last week G. g. Priest, of Anthony,
| had six head of cows killed by passing
! train, i've killed at one time.