Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-04-25
LITTLE SHOCK
OF Earthquake Was.FeIt In Char.
lesion Last Friday.
IN SUMMERvILLE TOO.

But Nowhere Did Any Damage Result
and There Was Little Alarm Over
1t. Probably n Reflex of the Gem
eral Disturbance Over the Earth
Some People Were Awakened.
little shock of earthquake was
felt in Charleston Friday morning,
causing some alarm among those who
experienced IT, 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 a
| light roaring sound, puff Of wind and
wave motion, the disturbance SEEM
ingly moving from southeast to the
northwest.
The shock was 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
tels, 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
was quite perceptable but il was not
comparable to the shocks which pre-
ceded the great earthquake OF Tues
day night, August 31st. 1886.
There is no seismograph 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 nohe 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 If any uneas-
mess for the press reports have been
noting these disturbance for some
time. Only a 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.
The fact that Charleston was
stricken with a big shock nearly 81
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 never 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-
ber 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
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 1t and did not know that II had
occurred until they heard it talked
about during the day.