The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-20
With the Long Bo..,
How It Feels to Be In the Grip Of Ell TremblorPer
sonal Experiences of People Who Have Been Thru
an Earthquake and Have Lived to Tell the Tale.

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81 OW does it feel to be in the grip Of earth
Fl quake9 Professor George Davidson of the
81 University of California says Of this week g
heck:
D. The only description am able to give Of it's
fleet to me is that it seemed like terrier shaking
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If you have ever seen terrier throwing his whole
soul into this and have placed yourself in
thought for in the position Of the rat, you
may get feeting glimpse, if you have good i'm
agination of how it feels to be in the grip Of el
tremblor. .@:z. 81 %ists.
writer in the Fargo Forum tells of the mild shake
of eight years ago in San Francisco. He says
- With several other Twas enjoying poker
game in room the third floor of hotel. The
chips stacked up high and the game had Just
reached interesting point when the shock came.
aThe chips scattered in every direction and
the game was forgotten. We rushed out in the hall
way to find it already occupied by fleeing figures.
Some Of them scanty attired and they all made
for the street with the greatest speed imaginable.
We followed - -. H.. zs<
tThere is something about earthquake which
Is beyond description: 1t induces feeling within
person that is different from any other sensation It
makes person feel that the end has and at
herealizes what very insignificant thing he is. -
&A press correspondent who was hurried to Charles
ton S. Co. in 1886 and arrived there in time to enjoy
several minor quakes told afterwards that he failed
find words to describe the effects of earthquake
on the mind He seemed to feel in some way that
the very foundations were cut out from under him,
that everything he had relied stable and
moved from age to age had suddenly given way and
was moving rapidly towards general smash. panic
seized the mind in spite of all he could do and the
tendency to somewhere counteracted by the
terrible perception that there place to 60
Every place equally unstable. The dispatches this
week speak of several deaths from "heart disease
THESE people doubtless victims Of the general
panic that seized them with peculiar power. j.
One Of the terrifying features Of the earthquake
Of Wednesday it's long continuance. In speaking
of ssshock Of earthquake disposed to think
of 1t as sudden jar that is over. Professor
Davidson says: -. :t.- - .-. = .@-#
z''The shock came at 5:12 clock. The first sixty
seconds the most severe. From that time it
decreased gradually for about thirty seconds There
twas then the slightest perceptble lu then the shock
continued for sixty seconds longer, being sghter in
degree in this than in any part Of the preced
ing minute and half.'' ....~:' E~#.:s~ =. i e
IF you will take out your watch and count OF sixty
seconds and remember that during this long period
the earth shaken Gas terrier shakes rat -
you may get idea Of the terrifying nature of the
phenomenon Sixty seconds under these circumstances
seems about year long And there erashings Of
chimneys and buildings and grindings and other fear
sounds to go with it.. ). - ..s :-..l...-... i:
On the whole perhaps it is just well to be some
where else when the earthquake having its innings
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The Crookston Daily journal under the headline
Predictions Of Bachelor says ~. z@:s.4,45:
''Pele owwpowpshrdunad.ki esMr'' j..
We should rather take these to be the reflections
of married when the tax statements pulled
on him. .E --1}
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