The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-09
THE MOUDUS NOISES AGAIN.
THEY ARE HEARD FOR THE FIRST
TIME SINCE 1854

tho Inhnbitnnts-No Satisfactory En-.
planstion-The Great Carsuncle.
MooDus Aug. s.-After q profound silence
OF ten years the famous and ineIplicabls
Moodus noises" have beon hoard again.
and no longer ago than last Sunday. AZ
about daybreak on that day the village people
were awakened BY q strange. low booming
sound that seemed to roll far below Thorn In
| the earth and that lightly Jared tho window
sashes In their easements. The noises did not
continue long, and after dozen or twenty
| seconds ended in q succession OF light explo.
sions like tho popping Of toy pistol heard at
a distance. At 1rst the people Of Moodus
believed that a thunder storm must be
approaching. and they ran to their win.
dows and threw open the blinds. but
tho SKY wa, cloudless and the spirit Of
Sunday restfulness In the country broodsd
| over tho region. Then they said to each other
In q superstitious whisper: 1T 10 the Moodus
noises. Mount Tom is grooming again" 1t 10
| just ten years since the noises were heard be.
| fore. Twice In the winter Of 1881 the strange
rumblings sounded In the heart OF the great
| Moodus Hill, and were hoard BY awestruok
| farmers as far east rs the WITCH haunted town
OF Salon. six milos away. Previous to that
incident they had not been heard since 1852.
| Mooius IL beautiful. quaint, old fashioned
| country village among the blue hills In the
Lower Connecticut Valley; 81 the ,, eastern side
River. u dsshing trout stream that empt!ss
away IN Mount To@ Is E cy Of susaoai Hi
tina! bog ms in the hamlet aud towers above Il.
eate feds futhsr up Msf it, Steep Sides is brossn
stony land; and there are almost impenetreble
smunate from tho interior OF the noun.
tain, and have been famous in the history Of
a hall. they i!r.t attracted The attention Of
the whites late In the seventeenth century. and
s sns IN swsd q
Gut farm house; Before that period they had
9S': about n aa1 MSada u:
a. With Sly reP9rtes TIL:
sros. Without Wiz 0ss and s losa
Ing oil IS abruniIy A other times thy bean
i0i hss hs air Tor %ss
panied BY no external signs Of terrestriai con:
vulsion. and there is usually no trembling Of
to feel a light tremor as the booming gathers
volume and eliminates before diving away u
most familiar With them f have noted clearly
that they appear to roll Up out OF the bowels OF
The mantle stations in 1852 occurred on .
nsighborhood. but q. they speedily suosidsd
soon H die" died out out II iaSs The noise. We're most
remark able. and dsscription ei them by
the anpss Of t.. rIvss : Village. and tOxnS
SIerIyWsu 4 ,hs. day wTssss wond:
sh. 1n sass' ssinfa AmlsS.y y, esSs
heard hear s Eight i and ton sounds suoes:sivsy and
initiating small arms. in the space Of i've min
| dred of them within twenty yonre some more.
some less terrible. 0ftsntlmes have heard
slow thand.r un th ds sound a Game near q
ma .6 ss ' :hsE:. IN Sous es .SS
t t. great sIs esrshdasF. that that q EisSeni ~
ss%sasSe sSsE III sasiSs shss: ::I!isT az:
HaF shs and
IS;sS $Ss Hssass So fs
thai S'p Droaueea Tho sRnsSlsr ' sSnnds and Is:
bsfors the BOOK wa' Written e. vs
DR. s o sad
hidden in tho great hill and whose efforts to
TS,s tn. III
tertstic OF carbuncle that as SOON a. It has
essn lssSe he assns
lamentations steadily augment, until finally
It makes known to its destined dslivsrsr tts
u. English DhysioiaS orwIzard thst som: w6:FS
aS ssfse .,
ebiaaed lodHins n the HOUSE, q ismly IN
sfoSks rnd shns n tSs aS.d
| serts il WAS in the house OF her Rrandm mother
that Dr. steele lived during his s9|ourn Al.
IL Of r. the sher
gem presumably was buried. He soon began
dig IN tho he TS% sy snd a 1
tho glIttering, and priceless Sarbuncle In hls
hand MRS gFooRs srmf thqs her Srsnd
large as 2 butternut aud emitting . dazzllns
light. 80 thatone could LIT gaze unon Il long.
vas never heard Of aitsTxard. and s. stIii :
SANG into the, depth ., M ocean. Before e
wh'r: had lain ,hs gem hs hsd carried away
Csd Pc pp1ahcea another a TSa Wta ssa
"SHS nf Indian la 'e eHpaaaion of tn. Moodus
59Hy sS
white man took away the red mans Iand."
n es snd q aa.d
heard distinctly in the town Of Salon. The
noises were described as being like those OF old.
faint rumbling at first. increasing in volume
and ending in a distant rattle or peal. 1t was
near the close OF u severely cold day that thoy
were first noticed: they continued only iew
hours. week later, on the second Saturday
Light in February the rumbinR began again
and las ed about tho same lengt h OF 'ims az in
tho first Instance since then they had not oo;
last SUNDAY morning. whom the m an festation
Of them was much like the phenomsnon Of
1881. In March ofthe same year tlSSl) subtor.
| TAnoAn Disturbances WaT0 noted at New Ions
don They were thus described In local paper:
Residents in the nei;hbnrhood OF tho GreaS
Neck have been alarmed OF late by mysterious
underground lun, blIngs. which begin with 9
scarcely audible sound; gradually Increase In
rupt shocks, like he discharge OF distant ar
ti!ery, and thcn dc away INTO silence again.