The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-17
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Earthquakes" said the 1t anger, con-
tempIuously. to New York Tribune writer.
You people here thins you ad an earthquake
the other night. do you! You don't know what
earthquakes are. Why, 10 california they have
esIIuquaAes Luat are som thing like earth
Lass S ,5 they aren't so very bal, either.
tLoIsI know q man out there who always
packer ms watch in cotton before he went to
y, ne y so Ihat the works wouldn't get shaken out
10 the night by an earthquake.
There was a man who came out there from
New York who didn't know ANYTHING about
earthquakes. He was living in a hotel IN q little
town, when shock came one night. It wash t
much OF a shoCa-iust an ordinary little affair
TO which no native Californian would pay the
sHEhtest attention But when this tenderfoOt
ieit the earth shaking, and afterward when tie
mousse Oegan TO rattle aud rock, lie ran for his
"luuOW. he was up in the third story, but he
Jumped. Down below was IA she with light
roof he struck that and went through it ike
shot' de "as scratched out torn and jabbed
IA Iue most awful way. but he ticked 10
death when he found that he was alive He
Wouldn believe US when we told MIN Le was
scaIeu-thaJ he jumped. He declared that lie
hadut jumped.
why he says when that earthquake be-
gan 70 snake the house to pieces | tried to get
h9ll Of something to brace my self with Just
Wheh the walls began TO fall something picked
me 10 and threw Inc out the window I'm glad
u dld. 10 saved my life l should have been
Killed II had been in tie house when it fell.
I on see, be didn't know anything about
5SN It-'iAttAcS. INC pas -er On Tee walls Oh the
mouse aadnt even been cracked; but that's the
way it takes tenderfeat
one OF the worst shskingS up ] ever hal
was IN Africa, There was Il fellow over there
VINO had chllls and fever that were the worst
ever saw. They used to come q II him every day
at certain hour. he would sit down and
sLBSe 80 you could almost hear mis- bones rattle
ana bis belt would snap like the bones OF q
player IN minstrel show. When he got through
with his attack he would be as weak az kitten
and as white sheet. Well one afternoon
he sat down TO have his chill9 when an earth
quake shock came aloug. 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. l believe If there
hadn been 50 much noise and confusion you
could nave heard his belt crack a mils away
he just shivered from head to foot over and
over again. could see him while was tossing
around, and thought he would shake to pieces,
but ne Just sat up same as he always did whom
ne ad his chills
be said
:. That's the worst attack ever had. be
Ieve N getting worse. I'm afraid I'll have to
move away from here
Would you believe il, that man thought that
earthquake was one OF his attacks of chillS? lie
dld, sir, and the most remarkable thing about
IL was that after that when the hour for his
shakes came around he would walk about and
attend to his business as if nothing unusual
were happening, Yes sir, after that earth
quake he didn't mind chills a bit, sir not a Bit
SIR anc he always said he was getting better"