The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-04-26
LlTTLE: SHOCK
OF Earthquake Was Felt III Char
lesion Last Friday.
i'm %SUMMERvILLE TOO.

But Nowhere Did Any Damage Result
and There Was Little Alarm Oycr.
1t. Probably a Reflex OF the Con
eral Disturbance Over the 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 seismfc dis
turbance was not serious and did no
damage except to scare timid peo-
jle.
The Post says the shock occurred
at $3.50 o'clock and was said to have
lasted between eight and ten seconds
n to have been accompanied by a
light roaring sound, puff Of wind and
wave notion, the disturbance SEEM
ingly moving from southeast to the
northwest.
The shock vas more distinctly felt
in Summerville than in Charleston,
At the pineland resort, it is said to
nave been attended with the breaking
of ornaments which fell from man
tells, but this was exceptional.
While the shock was naturally
more generally felt in Summerville
than in Charleston, at neither place
did the disturbance reach any decid-
ed proportions or cause exits from
houses or any stampede. The shock
| vas nntfa nnrnanfo1JN 1,,kH ~
comparable to the shocks which pre-
coded the great earthquake of Tues
day night, August 31st, 1885.
Ihere Is no seismOgraph IL 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.
felt should little IL any uneas-
mess for the press reports have been
noting these disturbance for some
time. Only q few days ago, reports
of similar occurrences were heard
from Tennessee and Kentucky and at
different times and places report or
earthquake shocks have been made.
The fact that Charleston was
stricken With "a big shock nearly 9 r.
years ago has no Significance and it
does not follow that there will be
terrible earthquake there.
Another may strike some other city
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 never know where
n will occur. The disturbance at
Charleston Friday was probably caus-
ed orconnected in some way with tho
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 many cities making inquiries about
the extent of the damage by the
earthquake. Some of the inquiries
said that It was reported at these
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
surfing 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 1t talked
about during the day.