The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-04-26
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OF Earthquake Mas Felt In Char
lesion Last Friday.
IN NSUMMERvILLE TOO.

But Nowhere Did Any Damage Result
and There Was Little Alarm Oyer
1t. Probably Reflex Of tho GeR.
eraI Disturbance Over tho Earth
Some People Were Awakened.
A little shock OF earthquake was
felt In Charleston Friday morning.
causing some alarm among those who
experienced 1t, but the seismic dis
'turbance was not serious and did no
damage except to scare timid peo-
jle.
The Post says the shock occurred
at 1880 O'Clock and was said to have
lasted between eight and ten seconds
and to have been accompanied by
light roaring sound, puff of wind and
wave motion, the disturbance SEEM
ingly moving from southeast to the
northwest II
The shock was more distinctly felt
In Summerville than in Charleston.
at the pineland resort, 1t is said to
have becr attended with the breaking
OF ornaments which fell from man,
tells, but this was exceptional.
While the shock was naturally
more generally felt in Summeryille
than in Charleston, at neither place
did the disturbance reach any decid-
ed proportions or cause exits from
houses or any stampede. The shock
was quite perceptable but it was not
comparable to the shocks which pre-
ceded the great earthquake of Tues
day night, August 31st, 1885.
Ihere Is no seismograph n Char
lesion and no register of the undula-
tory motion Of the earth could be re-
corded. The weather bureau has
many delicate Instruments with nee.
dies, dipped in ink, moving over tab
ulated sheets, recording wind and
rain variations, but none OF these
was affected, by the disturbances.
which goes to show how mild the
tremor really was.
The fact that slight tremor was
felt should cause little il any uneas.
mess for the press reports have been
noting these disturbance for some
time. Only few days ago, reports
of similar occurrences were heard
from Tennessee and Kentucky and at
different times and places report of
earthquake shocks have been made. Z 4 4
3 The fact that Charleston wac
stricken with IA big shock nearly q NJ
years ago has no significance and 1t
does not follow that there will be
another terrible earthquake there.
Another may strike some other city
or section OF the country and prehaps
visit those places with greater de-
struction than was ever wrought at
Charleston. Earthquakes are things
which can not be avoided and run
away from.
People may flee from an epidemic
Of fever or other disease, but they
can not run away from an earth
quake, for they eyor know where
one will occur. The disturbance at
Charleston Friday was probably caus-
ed orconnected in some way with the
disturbances in Mexico and the trem-
or Of the ground may probably be
simply the settling OF the portions
within the earth and the resumption
OF normal condition after the vio-
lent shaking up in Mexico.
The Evening Post received a num-
Der of kilograms and long-distance
telephone messages from newspapers
Of mao cities making inquiries about
the eAtent Of the damage by the
earthquake. Some OF the inquiries
said that it was reported at tn Use
places that Charleston had been de-
stroyed and that property which the
earthquake had not shaken down
was being devoured by flames.
These exaggerated reports were OF
course promptly denied and messag-
es were put on the press wires as
suring the people Of the country that
Charleston was unhurt, that not the
slightest damage had been done to
property, and that the shock was in
fact SO light that most people did not
feel it and did not know that 1t had
occurred until they heard it talked
about during the day.