The Penn's Grove record., 1886-09-04
Cambria county, Penna., on the Both

Cambria county, Penna., on the Both
ult.
An earthquake was felt on the
evening of the 31st ult., shortly before
ten O'Clock, throughout nearly the en-
tire portion of the United States east
of the Mississippi river, the shocks be-
ing experienced from the Gulf north
ward to the Upper Lakes and from
points near the Mississippi eastward to
the Atlantic coast. At Montgomery,
Alabama; Cleveland, Ohio; Meadville,
Penna., Raleigh, North Carolina, and
indianapolis, Indiana, the shocks seem
to have been especially severe. at
Montgomery, Selma, Lynchburg, Rich
mond, Washington, Cleveland, Mead
vile, Memphis, and other places,
people rushed, panic stricken, into the
streets. At Indianapolis part of the
coruice of a hotel was thrown down,
and at Raleigh walls were cracked and
chimneys fell. kilograms from New
York, Washington, Detroit. Milwau-
kee, Cincinnati, Louisville, Chatta-
nooga, and other cities, tell of severe
undulations, but no damage is reported.
The shock vas very light at Chicago.
and nothing was felt at Omaha, Ogden,
or San Francisco. Later dispatches
say that in Augusta, Georgia, there
were ten distinct shocks, from 9.51 to
10. As 7. NJ, and the streets were
filed with terrified people. At Charles
ton. West Virginia, many chlmneys
were toppled over. At Savannah,
Georgia, five shocks were felt and sew
eral chimneys were thrown down,
while buildings were otherwise dam
aged. In Pittsburg much alarm was
created, and many people rushed into
the streets. Four distinct shocks were
felt in Washington. The earthquake
shocks were quite lively in many por-
tons of New Jersey, and the vibra-
tons were distinctly felt in Philadel-
phis. A New York despatch received
early this morning says that since the
earthquake shock it has been Impos-
sible to get any Geographic commun-
lcation with Charleston. South Caro-
lima, a circumstance which causes
great concern.
"A despatch was received in Chi
cago on the 31st ult., from the Mayor
of Belleplain, Iowa, relating a singular
catastrophe. 1t appears that ian arte-
sian well, four inches in diameter.
burst when the depth or $50 feet had
been reached in boring, and instantly a
volume of water was forced into the
air to the distance of several hundred
feet. This gradually increased in size
and volume until a stream of water
fully sixteen inches in diameter was
formed, and the upward force Of this
stream is equal to the power of powder
or dynamite" The despatch adds:
1.-THE water in huge volumes is spout
ing high in the air, and the supply
seems inexhaustible. Two gigantic
rivers have been formed by this phe.
nomenal water burst, which are running
through the town at the rate of twelve
miles an hour and carrying everything
before them. Houses and lives are
threatened by this peculiar freak of
nature, and the citizens are appalled,
at their impending danger, which
at present they are powerless to over
come. Finding it impossible to avert
this damaging flood, an attempt was
made to insert ~siXteen-inch boiler iron
tubes into the we'll, but these were in
stantly blown out and forced high into
the air. Finding this plan useless, the
terrified people attempted to ill up the
aperture through which this terrible
geyser was spoutlng its deluge. Fifteen
carloads of stone were emptied into tho
well, but these were forced upward as
though propelled by the force of giant
powder. Bags of sand were then
hastily constructed and cast into the
well, but these, too, were hurled into
the air." Up to last evening no abate-
ment in the flow of water was percepti-
BILE, land the rushing rivers formed by
it were washing the channel it had
made deeper and wider, while the basin
formed by this immense volume of
water was spreading over the lowlands
in the vicinity"
Three young women were over
taken by an express train while cross
ing a trestle bridge near Sank Centre.
Minnesota, on the Both ult. One of
them was killed and another severely
injured. The third escaped by Jumping
into the river, but is suffering from
nervous prostration. Near Reading,
Penna., on the Both ult., an unknown
man was u oyer and killed by q
freight train. The engineer saw the
man kneeling On the track as though
he was praying, but 1t was then too
late to stop the tram. About the same
time Charles Luther, aged SO, of Read
ing, sought shelter from the rain under
a car when the train to which the car
was attached suddenly started and
Luther was run over and killed.
Anthony Gillespie. a grocer of
Mt. Carmel, Penna., left there on
horseback for Shamokin on the 30th
nit. In the evening his horse was
found loose in the woods, and on the
3lst ult., his dead body, with a bullet
hole in the head, vas found on An
abandoned road. Three tramps are
suspected of the crime. A row occurred
at a negro festival at Hearne, Texas,
on the 10Th ult., in which one man was
killed and three others we're wounded.
Five arrests were made. Peter Degan
shot and mortally wounded Theodore
Smith in a quarrel about a load of
straw near Saukyille, Wisconsin, son
the Both ult. The murderer aed.