New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-01
SOME FORMER SHOCKS IN THIS COUNTRY
THK ONE FrLT SEVERELY ~ THIS CITY IN 1884

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THk ONE FfLT SEVERELY IN THIS CITY IN 1854
WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT 1T WAS.
A shock of earthquake was felt in this part
OF the country on August 10, 1854 at 2O7 p 1t
exceedingly severe hid many people greatly
frightened fearing tina. there had ploson OF
dynamite or that s"ne huge boiler In a factory had
blown up Their were two distinct shocks occur ring
within interval Of few seconds lasting about
quarter or minute. To people who the lower
h"crs OF buildings the shock most In
rares dishes on the tables the walls of high
buildings moved p-rceptby. The seDsations then felt
by people were Ike the passing OF waves OF motion
under the feet AMI the continued rumbnR led many
believe that a team drawing heavy wagon or hre
CINE running away In fsct every conceivable rea
spn given from the moving Of n piano on the flor
apnve to the bursting of boiler by those who did rot
think that earthquake had taken place People in
Harlem aud The Annexed District thought that there
had been premature explosion Of dynamite In the
oava,ons than being male In He'll Gate. At the
Signal Once tic men IN charge felt tn shock ut IA
r. M and the advices which they received from Signal
Stations In varo arts OF the country gave reason TO
pei-ve that the and irregular
It fell through belt Of urrtory extending from
washins ton TO Portland. Me-. and from the Atlantic
coast far west Toledo No electric disturbance
apparent o. the apparatus OF the Impairment AT
the Western Union Building the snock was felt lainly
OPERATING room. The ,trs jumped TO their
feet aud looked at eaoh other with blanched faces
the Brooklyn Bridge VAS crowded VITA p-opl" at he
time but there Was no jar felt BY them The direction
Of tb" wave seemed to he rom tho sonth bnt many
thought that 1t was a little 10 the west Of sonth IL
passed he north. north by east No damage was
DONE other han the breaking Of fw Dishes alt hough
Tue shock was srv~r.r than ih It OF last night
The recent thquakes felt IN the Cnied states
last rvsnug Those OF last week Friday
aud SATURDAY MORNINGS, thr former being :elt ONLY At
Charlrston, :. c. and the immediate neghborhood and
the latter somewhat more severe extending into North
srona These occurred WITHIN twenty -four hours OF
much heavier shocks along the shores OF the la, torn
Mediterranean.
Al midnight June IL, 1886. = strange tremor was
fr.t sandy Hook ana Coney Island. at first believed
10 br due TO earthquake, ut afterward yagu-ly
attributed 10 the rnx OF guns Oh shipbnard on shore
shock felt else here IN the United States Dat III
West indies. TrOnOuncsi shock was lelt on the
island ~ Anigua he dsy before, at which me eatth-
gu ke- occurred in Poic-rs France in terribly ue-
slruciive vOlcsn outbreak WAS experienced ih new
Zealand.
On January 20, 1882. a severe shock OF earthquake
was EXPERIENCED at CentrevIlle. Cal, preceded Oy
heavy Of rain
On February ID, 1882 shock Of five minutes duration
was felt Lake City. Colorado. The shock was also
violently ielt at Capitol city In the same stare
December 10, 1882 two slie I but distinctly pcr-
shocks OF earthquake asng ten seconds were
ielt at Dover n. H.. accompanied BY rumDnx nol--.
They we've also felt in Kolmsfori, Rochester C0nt0o-
cook, CUUcOri, and other towns III that state. Inc
shoe Ks travelled from east ~ west
January Il, 1881, earthquake lasting about ten
-ecouds felt at Bath. Me-, aud throughout me
n-ghnOriug country At nrst there vas loui report
folio wed by run0ling sound. oi heavy team pass
ing frozen ground. windows ratl"d hho us
tlDrt oscillations were felt $1,000 -, 49,,
Is 1878, shocks were telt In the Ms,is-
sppi Valley over a. area OF fully 10000 uare niis
Tie OF greatest iturbancs was along Mssls,
sppl from Calru TO Memphis, snl along the MISSOURI
from Gl.s 10 Lexington. ,,e.
on Srutem,,.r o. 1852 IA slight shock was felt in ST.
Louis rolling DOs' WAS followed ny " el'e lstuo
vibrations AT Intervals OF second Inc hrst vioan
most violent Inc sho1k asI1u hpou i i,eoan
seconds ,prngheld and CeDlrLlis. Ill, experienced
Ile auesl