The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-28
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has hitherto unknown flood points. All
this, the scientists say may be attributed
TO Nesuvius, or to Peel or any of the cd
smoky chimneys that have for centuries
acted as safety valves to the earth's di-
gestion.
An earthquake is a shaking of the sur
face of the earth Ii is caused by an I'M
equal tightening of the crust of the earth.
The center. in cooling, can cause an
earthquake; the middle fires, In sending
out their boiled products, may do it.
The phenomenon is one OF the most ter
rifying known to civilization. The impos-
siblity of fleeing from ID, it's irresistible
force, its comprehensiveness,it its fierce sud
% nness, make it the terror of the entire
population of the globe.
In India and Turkey, the earthquake
countries, the natives never build tall
houses, for fear of having them shaken
down; and, though the earthquake has
not visited them with violence for a gen.
GRAFTON, it's vivid scare is so ever present
with them, that not for worlds would they
imperil their limbs and their fortune in
structure that lowered far aloft in the
heavens. They must be within jumping
! distance of the ground.
The Lisbon earthquake Of $50 years ago
1 is still told as one of the calamties of the
world, for thousands persisted and great
| holes were rent, into which people and
houses tumbled to be swallowed up a sec
/ ond later in another CONFUSION. Whole
! families disappeared and the earthquake.
which extended over nearly half the
| world, was felt in mid-ocean, on the roll
ing sailing boats
The Andes in South America, were
shaken repeatedly in the early part of this
century and il was after one of these
shocks that gold was found there in some
quantities. This gave rise to the scientific
theory that the earthquake had brought,
by accident or the Creators design, vein
.IeA
true of South Africa, In which the dia-
mond mines were first discovered, after
a tremendous shaking of the surface. A
wonderful gift of nature, you VIII say, but
dearly bought.
South America has always been an
earthquake country; and as recent as 1868
several cities in Peru were destroyed; ana
the whole coast laid waste. On this occa-
sion, the water swelled up from the sea
in a great wave, which went back with q
current that took people out to sea TO re-
turn no more alive. Yet, by some strange
| process of under stirring, IL did return
them, rolled by water and crushed by
rocks upon the very shores from whlch
they were taken a minute before, while
around them in fine mockery lay the rem
nants of their homes splintered and
| streWn.
San Francisco was Mortified just thirty
years ago by an earthquake, which shook
down seven houses and buried alive hve
| Dersons No explanation could be offered
of this strange freak, except that certain
volcanoes in Pacific Islands were Vofnle-
ing forth the uncomfortable.
Ten years later, in a line south OF our
beloved flower state of the West, there
/ occurred an earthquake, in which towns
were destroyed and people killed In the
wreckage. South America had been again
| visited.
! The experience Of those who have suf-
| fered an earthquake varies only in the in
| tensity of the shock. The earthquake
| which shook the East centennial year
| was felt by thousands of persons, all OF
| whom heard the rumblng in the center or
the earth and felt, scarcely a second lat
er, the shake. as though they ana the
| earth were shyering involuntary ire
| NOR. The earth is actually chilled as sci
| entlsts will tell you but the chill is an
/ internal one, caused by cold air, while her
vast outside records the shock
| An earthquake in 1884 was felt across
the country Beginning at New York at
4 O'Clock, it reached the Middle states by
! g. Allowing for differences in time, it
was calculated that the tremor Travelled
at the rate of thirty miles per minute.
The horror Of Charleston will not soon
/ be forgotten. It's scenes inspired the
novel 1.-THE Earth Trembled."
Those who recorded their feelings a that
time described, without exception the
sickly feeling almost of nausea; and the
| sudden faintness, as though they were go
ing out of gravity's reach. This Is at
4 tributed by the scientific world TO an act
ual change in the earth's gravitation; and
/ the sensibility of human mechanism which
! is sensitive even 70 changes that are go
/ ing on without their knowledge.
! For the comfort Of the reader, it may be
4 stated that the earthquake shocks e
! slight ones, with a wave center radiating
/ from point in the Eastern hemisphere.