Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-17
GREAT EARTHQUAKE,
.Tremor of Unusual Proportions
 Is Felt In Two Worlds.
IT LASTS NEARLY TWO HOURS
Disturbance Is So Severe That Seis- moeraph Needle Is Shaken Loose In BaItimore-Recorded Also In Great Britain and In Austria.

Washington, Oct 17.-An earthqual' of unusual if not record breaking vio lence was felt at various points in Flu rope, the United States and Canada The tremorS, while indicating al earthquake of the greatest proportions were not from a source so near as tC be felt here, but they undoubtedly reached every part of the weSterr hemisphere. They were recorded or the seiSmograph instruments in thi: city, Baltimore, Cheltenham, Md; Al bany and Toronto and were of sucl violence as to exceed the recording Jim its of the instruments.
 At Johns Hopkins university, Balti more, the needle of the seismograph was shaken entirely off the recording cylinder. The weather bureau here reports that the recording needle re- ! peatedly left the cylinder and passed 1 far beyond the margin of the imprint i sheet, and the seismOgraph at the ] State museum at Albany could not record the full swing of the vibrations. The tremblings lasted for about one | hour and forty-five minutes, with q climax of maximum strength cOntinu- ing for four or five minutes.
 The indications are that no harm has been done by the tremendous earth movement, that the earthquake was probably at the bottom of the sea, several thousand miles from New York city State GeOlogist Clark, having charge of the seismograph at Albany, indefinitely fixes the direction as south, which would place the seat Of the disturbance in the neighborhood of Valparaiso, Chile. or southwest, which would locate it out in the Pacific ocean. He said:
 Continuation of Other Quakes.
 'The only disturbance comparable in violence recorded this year is the earthquake of April IA, so destructive ly felt in Mexico. The latest one may very well mark continuation of the movements under way for some time in the COrdilleran and Caribbean zoneS to which may also he traced the earthquakes of San Francisco. Val paraiso and Jamaica. The arrival of the first waves was recorded at 904 a. m and of the main vibrations at 9:14 a. m. after which the swings gradually subsided. but were tracea- ble for about an hour"
 Professor Harry Fielding Reed at Johns Hopkins university noted that the most violent tremor was at 9:13 a. m. and it was during the eleven minutes following that the needle was repeatedly shaken off the recording cylinder The shock. he thought. was of about the same intensity as that at San Francisco, and from an incom- plete study of the tracings he thought that possibly the center of disturb ance was not more than 1000 miles away. in the vicinity of Bermuda.
 At the weather bureau in this city the experts were taken at serious disadvantage The seismOgraph read ingS are made on two instruments, one recording the east and west move mentS and it's companion the north and south movements. A new inStru- ment for north and south readings was heinz installed at the moment of the first shock. and the imprint paper had been removed from the companion instrument.
 Too Severe For the Instrument.
 It is upon preliminary tremors that the distance and direction of the dis. turbance is estimated. and therefore the governments data of only the east and west movements upon which to base calculations is mPager. The ac- tual movement of the earth is placed by the weather bureau at fOur-tenths of one inch and the disturbance as one of the most severe ever recorded there
 The Toronto observatory estimates the distance of the quake to 3.OO miles at q point presumably south. lis officials report the matter as an cX- traOrlinary earth shock. the extreme tremors of which exceeded during three minutes the scale limit of the in strument. The preliminary trrmnrS were noted at 9N2 a. m. the large waves at 9:12 to 9:l5 and the disturb ancc continuing until 10:4j
 The seismoGraph at the coast and geodctic survey magnetic observatory at Cheltenham. Md, showed that the vibrations began at S::I9.4G a. m. east ern standard time. and continued for about two hours. the maximum being reached at from 9:l4 to 9:2n. Peculiar ly the college officials at Amherst. Mass. report that the seiSmograph showed no record of any earth shockS.
 \ dispatch received from London said:
 The observatory on the Isle of Wight recorded a severe earthquake. beginning at 2l5 p m. and lasting more than four hours The distance of the disturbance is placed at 5.Nn miles. The observatory at Lalhach. Austria. also recorded an earthquake at practically thp same time. lasting for two hours and q half and at a dis tance Of 6.2lO miles
 Lady BurreII Divorced.
 London. Oct. 15.-Sir Merrik RurreIl