The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-10
BADLY SHAKEN up.
The stranger Tells About Earthquakes
slight and Heavy.


slight and Heavy.
"Earthauakes" said the stranger.
coutcmptuously You people hero
think you had an earthquake the other
night, do you? You don't know what
earthquakes arc. Why, in California
they have earthquakes that are some
thing like earthquakes. yet they aren't
so very bad either, though ! know
man out there who always packed his
watch in cotton before he went TO bed,
so that the works wouldn't get shaken
out in the night by an earthquake.
There was a man who came out
there from New York who didn't know
anything about earthqua kes He was
living in hotel in little town. when
a shock came one night 1t wasn't
much of shock-just an ordinary little
affair to which no native Californian
would pay the slightest attention But
when this teuderfoot felt the earth
shaking, and afterward when the house
began to rattle and rock, he ran for his
window He was UP in the third story,
but he Jumped Down below was q
shed with light roof He struck that
and went through it like "a shot He
was scratched and torn aud jabbed in
most awful way. but he was tickled to
death when he found he was alive. He
wouldn't believe us when we told him
he was scared-that he jumped. Ho
declared that he hadn't jumped
Why he says, when that earth
quake began to shake the house TO
pieces tried to get hold of something
to brace myself with. Just when thu
walls began TO fall something picked
me up and threw me out of the win
dow. I'm glad of it II saved my life.
i should have been killed IL had been
in the house when il fell
You see, he didn't know anything
about earthquakes. The plaster on the
walls of the house hadn't even been
cracked; but that's the way IL takes
tenderfeet
Zone of the worst shakings up | ever
had was in Africa There was n fellow
over there who had chiils and fever
that We're the worst ! ever saw They
used to come ON him and shake so you
could almost hear his bones rattle and
his belt would snap like the bones of
player in minstrel show. When he
| got through with his attack he would
DE as weak as a kitten and as white a.
sheet Well, one afternoon he sat
/ down to have his chil,s, when
an earthquake shock came along.
1t threw me down and fired me
all over the ground, but he Just
sat there and shook. No man that ever
/ lived shook the way that man did
sbelieve if there hadn't been so much
noise and confusion you could have
heard his belt crack mile away He
/ just shivered from head To foot over aud
/ over again. ! could sec him while I
was tossing around, and thought he
would shake to pieces, but he just sat
up same as he always did when he had
his chills.
When the shock was over | got up,
I and then he said:
That's the worst attack | ever mad.
believe I'm getting worse. l'm afraid
I'll have to move away from here
Would you believe il. that man
thought that the earthquake was one of
his attacks of chills? He did. sir. and
the most remsTka bic thing about it was
that after that when the hour for his
shakes came around lie would walk
about and attend TO his business as II
nothing unusual were happening. Yes,
sir, after that earthquake he didn't
mind chills a bit, sir; not bit sir: and
he always said he was getting better"
N. y. Tribune