The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-24
ST. LOUIS SHAKEN
Two Shocks of Earthquake Felt
Early This Morning.
First Was Light and Second
More Severe.
PEOPLE AWAKENED.
Windows and Crockery Ratified
and Inhabitants Alarmed.
Gathered enlightened i'm Rooms
to Await Results.
DURATION ONE MINUTE.
People Heard the Usual Rum
bling Sound.
TremOr Also Felt i'm Towns Near
st. Louis.
Windows and Crockery Ratified
and Inhabitants Alarmed.
Gathered enlightened i'm Rooms
to Await Results.
DURATION ONE MINUTE.
People Heard the Usual Rum
bling Sound.
TremOr Also Felt i'm Towns Near
st. Louis.

st. Louis, Jan. 24.-Two distinct
shocks of earthquake were felt in St
Louis and in many towns in the imme-
diate vicinity a few minutes before
O'Clock this morning. The first shock
was light, the second was more severe
1t awakened persons who had slept
through the first shock and got them
out of bed. The shocks were accom-
panied by a rumbling sound
Reports received show that the
shocks were very generally felt
throughout the city and suburbs The
two shocks occaSioned the rafting of
crockery and swinging of pictures In
Chamberlain park the shocks were not
severe. In many houses families gath
cred in undress in one room immedi-
ately after the first shock, but none were
sufficiently alarmed to take to the
street.
Fred Ruble, the night operator at
the weather bureau, whose office is on
the top of the federal building, noted
the shocks but did not look at the time.
He said both came between and >
o'clock
DR. Hyatt. the local weather bureau
chief, says an acquaintance of his from
Clifton Heights reported that the
shocks there We're very severe, and sew
eral persons went into their yards fear
ing the houses would be shaken down.
The shocks We're felt distinctly in the
tri-cities, across the river, in Illinois.
Cashier w. J. Biel, of the First Ma
tiona1 bank at Granite City, says that
he was waiting for breakfast in the
office of Lauff's hotel across from the
bank.
AT 5 O'clock said Mr.. Lauff. 81
heard the doors and windows rattle,
and thought there was something
wrong at the rolling mill. went to
the door and looked out. Then l realized
that it was an earthquake. The shock
lasted about a minute"
Druggist A NJ Harlan, of Madison,
said: Mrs. Harlan and 1 were just
getting up when we felt a tremor of the
house. The windows ratified, the doors
seemed to shake as if some one was
tapping on them. We thought at first
that the house was going to fall down,
and were alarmed
In Venice buildings shook and win
dows ratified SO that residents believed
that an explosion had occurred in the
neighborhOod.
The earthquake was felt very dis
tinctly at Alton, Ill.
In the west end of that city on the
bluffs the vibrations were most severe.
Capt. D. P. Sparks who lives on the
bluffs said:
Il was awakened suddenly about 4:45
a. m. L first heard a slight ra1mbling.
Then the house trembled. Finally so
great was the vibration that all the
members of the family got ready to
take to the street. Everything in the
house that could give forth a sound
aided the din. 1t seemed as if the shock
lasted half a minute. Possibly it was
1t
In the east end of Alton where the
population is more dense, nearly every
one left their beds and some got into
the street
Some of the negroes thought the end
of the world had come.
Nearly everybody in Belleville, ILL.,,
felt the earthquake. The time given
generally was about five O'Clock Belle
vile is honeycombed by coal mines and
there was probably more fright in the
St Clair county capital than elsewhere
when the nature of the visitation was
realized.
FELT AT KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, Jan. 4,-What is be-
lieved to have been an earthquake
shock was experienced in the northeast
extremity of the city this morning. The
movement was slight and no damage
resulted
FELT AT QUINCY
Quincy, ILL.,, Jan. 24-There was a pro-
nounced earthquake shock here at 4:40
this morning. The seismic disturbance
lasted nearly minute and the oScilla-
ton was from east to west. The shak-
ing of walls was preceptible in many
brick residences.
ST. JOE HEARD RUMBLING
ST. Joe, Mo-, Jan. 24.-Early this morn
Joseph. awakening many families into
the belief that a tornado was coming.
The noise, however, was but momentary
and no damage resulted 1t is generally
supposed to have been some seismic dis
turbance.
LEAvENwORTH WAS SHAKEN.
Leavenworth, Kan, Jan. PA dis
tinct earthquake shock. accompanied by
in Leavenworth about o'clock this
morning and in nearby towns. Lum
Evans, a farmer, while driving to town
felt the shock when near Beverly. 1t
was so severe, he says, that it frighten-
ed the horses. No damage is reported.