The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-09-05
FOUR STATES SHAKEN
Three Distinct Earthquake
Shocks Are Felt.
HOUSES swAYED, GLASS BROKEN
Fissure Opened Over One Hundred Feet
Deep in One of the Hills Of
Philadelphia Park.

Philadelphia Park.
Brooklyn, Sept. 3.-Three distinct
earthquake shocks were felt by resi-
dents of Brooklyn about o'clock this
morning. No damage to life or prop.
erty is reported from any section of the
city. The districts of East New York
and South Brooklyn received the great.
est shocks, hut the rumblings were
distinctly felt in other sections of the
city. Contradictory reports are given
rs to the severity of the shocks. The
first shock, which was felt at O'Clock,
was followed by rumbling noise like
distant thunder. This was followed by
two slighter shocks, which, according
to some reports, died away in low,
grating tones.
Superintendent of Police McKelvy
teiephoned to the police headquarters
from his Green-avenue residence that
he had been awakened from sound
sleep by the earthquake. He said the
house oscillated and that the bed he
was sleeping in moved perceptibly.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Cros-
by, who was sleeping at Coney island,
also telephoned to headquarters that
the shock was very severe in that Sec
tion of Brooklyn. He described it as
low, rumbling noise, and added that
many houses had been shaken, all the
inhabitants being aroused from their
sleep.
James jackson, night watchman at
the municipal building, said that resi-
dents of the Twenty fifth ward were
startled by three shocks in rapid sue
cession, and heard rumbling noise.
The houses trembled and many pictures
and other ornaments hanging on the
walls were thrown to the floor.
Two conductors of the Atlantic-ave-
nue. railroad, who were dining in a
restaurant ON Washington street, re-
ported that they felt the shock. The
building trembled and plates and other
dishes on the table were moved. The
second shock was like the effects of dis
tant explosion. At many hotels the
guests were SO frightened by the vibra-
tion that they hurried into the hall
ways to find out the cause of the trou-
bles. The guests at the Pierrepont
house were very much alarmed, and
many of them went down stairs and
asked the night clerk what had hap
pened. They thought an explosion
must have occurred.
New York, Sept. 3.-According to
Weather Forecaster Dunn, the earth
quake reaeked this city at 6:l1 o'clock
this morning The shock was light
and lasted ten seconds. It travelled
from south to north. Comparatively
few persons in the city noticed the dis
turbance.
Sandy Hook, Sept. 3.-A shock, ap-
parently that of an earthquake, lasting
about three seconds, was felt about
6:0S A. NJ. today.
Jersey City, Sept. 3.-New Jersey
felt the force of the earthquake. The
tremor extended throughout the north
ern part, while the southern section
appears to have escaped the experience
entirely. From all of the cities and
villages in the northern section, the
story received is the same. The shock
was preceded and accompanied by a
low, rumbling sound, which marks the
earthquake. This trembling lasted
several seconds. In some places the
estimate of time is three seconds, while
other sections place the duration at
from fifteen to twenty seconds. The
general course of the shock was from
east to west.