New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-12
HE DIDN'T MIND CHILLS LITTER THAT
THE STRANGER TELLS About EARTHQUAKES,
SLIGHT AND HEAVY.

THE STRANGER TELLS ABOUT EARTHQUAKES
SLIGHT AND HEAVY.
" Earthquakes said the stranger contemptuoisly.
"You people here think you had an earthquake tho
other night, do yOu' lOu don't know what earth
quakes Why, in California they have earthquakes
that something Ike earthquakes; yet they aren't
SO very bad, either. though know man out there
who always packed bis watch in cotton before b
went TO bed. that the works wouldn't get shaken
ont I'm the night by earthquake.
There was n man who came ont there from New
York who didn't know anything about earhqwbe&
He was living In a hotel I'm little town, when .
shock came one night. II wasn't much Of shock
Just an ordinary little affair TO which no native
Californian would pay the slightest attention. But
when this tenderfoot felt the earth shskng, and
aftcrward when the house began TO rattle and rock
he ran for his window. lie up In the third
story, but he jumped. Down below WAS shed WITH
light roof. He struck that and went through It
Nike shot. lie was scratched and torn and jabted
In the most awful way, but he tickled TO death
when he found he was alive lie wouldn't believe
us when told him he scared-that he Jumped.
He declared that he hadn't jumped.
"'Why,' he says, when that earthquake beeaa
to shake the house to pieces tried to get hold Of
something TO brace myself with Just when toe
walls begun to fall something picked up and threw
me out the window. I'm glad It did. 1t saved my
life. / should have been billed II had been 10 fas
house when II fell
You see, he didn't know anything about earth
0uakes The plaster on the walls OF the house haaav
even been cracked; but that's the way IL uAss
tenderfeet.
"One OF the worst shahings up ever haa WAS v
Africa There was fellow over there WHO nAS
Chills and fever that were the worst ever saw
They used 10 come on him every day at certais
hour lie would sit down and shake so you '"2'a
almost hear his bones rattle and his belt would snap
like the bones OF player In minstrel show ""ea
he got through with his attack he would be rs "sas
Us Il kitten and as white sheet. Wei, one a''e'
noon he sat down TO have his chiIs. when an ea''~
quake shock came along. II threw me down anu
fired me all over the ground, but he Just SAT 'ue's
and shook No man that lived shook Inc WI!
that man did. / believe II there hadn't Deem ~
much noise and confusion you could have heaiu ".
belt crack mile away. lie just shlvered from neae
to foot over and over again. could see MN "m''
| was tossing around, and thought ne "ouia '. -.
to pieces, but he inst sat up same as ne always '''
when he had his cllils. l..
"Whcn the shock was over got up, ana ae" W
said u.x.
That's the worst attack ever had. 'e"s
I'm getting worse I'm afraid III have 10 n'o''
away from here ,,cb, that
Would you believe II, that man though; ala, Ala
earthquake was one OF his attacks oi S I, wa, that
Sir and the most rkabe thing about II wa onnd
after that when the hour for his shahs I'm sns.s az
no would walk about and attend 10 NJ, pusIe toe
II nothing unusual were happening le,i ' ir. NOT
thai carthaunke he didn't mind chllls bi,, 81 hsr
a bit, sir; and he always said he was se'uHs WV