The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-12-03
QUEER NOISES AT NINETY sIX.
They Preceded tho Earthquake Ten
Years AgO---ASain Tho RInbling
ia Heard

They Preceded tho Earthquake Ten
Years Ago--ASain The Numbling
ia Heard.
Mr.. Henry }. Kinard. of Ninety Six,
>. g., writes III follows to the Columbia
Register
About eleven or twelve years ago q
rumbllng noise was heard about four
miles southeast OF this place, resemb-
ling the report OF cannon, only tho
sound was dcadened somewhat by
being underground. 1t started nearly
two years bcfOro the groat August
earthquake and became more FREQUENT
and louder up to the earthuuako 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-
tlon OF the earth just after an ex.
plOslon 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
tree You could feel the vibration.
Some people living close became worry
much alarmed and were uneasy that
something would happen to injurc
them. | haze farm on Ninety Six
Creek, whcro these reports werc 80
pronounced, and often heard them
think large pieces Of earth must re
dropping of beneath the surface,
falling deep down in some cavity be.
low, which must cause the report.
These reports were heard in a radius
OF about three miles. They were moro
pronounced than the report OF blast
ing, but having somewhat OF the doad-
encd sound. | shall always believe
they were somewhat connected with
the great earthquake, because nearly
two years before the earthquake, when
hrst hcaru, thcy were not 50 loud and
less frequent, but just before the earth
quake they were very frequent ana
SO much louder and OF course tho vibrn-
%ion OF the earth 80 much more strik-
ing, and. ns | stated, after the earth
quake they were lcss frequent and not
30 loud, and in the course OF about six
wcel1s were heard no more.
| am not going to predict that we
are to have another earthquake, nor
Is 1T my purpose in writing this article
1T is fact that about ak or eight
weeks ago tlrcsc unexplained and un-
cXplainablo reports started again and
are moro frequent and louder now
than when first heard eight weeks
ago, SO say the people who live out
there.
| wrote short article one week ago
to the News and Courior, giving these
facts, selecting that paper simply be-
| cause the Columbia correspondent OF
That paper, somo tinc before the Au.
guat earthquake, cnme up horc and
wrote lengthy article giving testi.
mony and statements Of different re-
sponsibc men in regard to these OK.
| plosivc noises. The Ncws and Courier
did not publish NY article from some
cause | know not | supposed the
editor thought it might affect Charles
ton in some way, or that it was not
worth tho space it would take to
publish it, or that it might disturb
some nervous persons. | ask you, Mr..
Editor topubIish this for no other pur-
pose than it is q fact that these OK
plosiIc noises were associated with the
great August earthquake and that il
ought TO be known by the people that
these explosive reports arc heard
again. Ny correspondence ninc years
ago in tho Carolina Spartan WAS taken
by the News and Courier rs Il canard,
but proved to be fact. Captain
Petty took considerable interest at
the time in my statements. During
the late war parties living on those
Hat lands where these noises are now
heard, reported each day exactly tho
number OF cannOns that wore fired in
Charleston. II you arc disposed to
publish this, If any changes in these
explosions take place, | will write you
again.