The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-12-01
QUEER NOISES AT NINETY SIX

They Preceded tho Earthquake Ten
Years Ago--Again The Rumbling
il Heard.
Mr.. Henry ]. Kinard, OF Ninety Six,
S. c., writes as follows to the Columbia
Register:
About eleven or twelve years ago q
rumbling noise was heard about four
miles southeast OF this place, resemb-
sound was deadened somewhat by
being underground. 1t started noarly
two years before the great August
earthquake and became moro frequent
and louder up to the earthquake and
continued only few weeks after the
earthquake. These explosive reports
were not at regular intervals, some-
times one to five times day, and some
days would not be heard. The vibra-
tiOn of the earth just after an ex-
plosion or report was sufficient to
rattle glassware and glass windows
hard enough to wake one at night or
II lying with your head on the base of
q tree you could feel the vibration.
much alarmed and were uneasy that
something would happen to injure
them. 1 have a farm on Ninety-Slx
Creek, where these reports were so
pronounced, and often heard them.
think large pieces Of earth must be
dropping off beneath the surface,
falling deep down In some cavity be:
low, which must cause the report.
These reports were heard In q radius
Of about three miles. They were more
pronounced than the report OF blast
ing, but having somewhat of the dead
ened sound. shall always believe
they were somewhat connected with
the great earthquake, because nearly
two years before the earthquake, when
first heard, they were not 80 loud and
less frequent, but just before the earth
quake they were very frequent and
80 much louder and of course the vibra-
tiOn of the earth 80 much more strik-
ing, and, as I stated, after the earth
quake they were less frequent and not
30 loud, and in the course OF about six
weeks were heard no more.
l am not going to predict that we
| are to have another earthquake, nor
is 1t my purpose In writing this article
to disturb those who are nervous, but
| 1t Is fact that about six or eight
weeks ago these unexplained and un-
expla1nable reports started again and
| are more frequent and louder now
than whom first heard eight weeks
ago, so say the people who live out
there.
wrote short article one week ago
to the News and Courier, giving these
| facts, selecting that paper simply be-
cause the Columbia correspondent Of
that paper, some time before the Au-
gust earthquake, came up here and
wrote q lengthy article giving testi-
mony and statements Of different re-
sponslble men In regard to these ex-
plosive noises. The News and Courier
did not publish my article from some
cause know not. I supposed the
editor thought 1t might affect Charles
ton In some way, or that 1t was not
worth the space 1t would take to
publish 1t, or that 1t might disturb
some nervous persons. ask you, Mr..
Editor, to publish this for no other pur-
pose than 1t 10 fact that these ex-
plosiye noises were associated with the
great August earthquake and that It
ought to be known by the people that
these explosive reports are heard
again. My correspondence nine years
ago In the Carolina Spartan was taken
by the News and Courier as q canard,
but proved to be fact. Captain
Petty took considerable interest at
the time In my statements. During
the late war parties living on these
fat lands where these noises are now
heard, reported each day exactly the
number OF cannons that were fred In
Charleston. II you are disposed to
publish this, IL any changes In these
explosions take place, will write you
again.