Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-15
WAS PURELY LOCAL AFFAIR.
Or. f. J. Pack of University Says
No Shock is Recorded by
Seismograph.
However, This Morning the instru-
mcnt Showed Some Agitation
Along North South Line.

Utah had an earthquake last night
though few people in this part of the
state know it. The sesmograph at the
University of Utah recorded not the
slightest tremor and DR.. L. j. Pack in
speaking of the report from Fillmore
and other southern points said this
morning:
Il believe the shock felt at Fillmore
last night was wholly a local disturb
ance. We know that the basin ranges
are in a constant process of readjust-
ment and to this fact attach the re-
sponsbility for the disturbances. They
are SO purely local ana 50 slight in
their nature that there is no good rea-
son why the people should fear them
They are not severe enough TO cause
assures. In earlier periods this Sec
ton of the country was visited by more
severe equarquakes, as we may learn
from an observation of the features of
the country from a biologists view
point. Gradually, as the ranges in
the Great Basin have read justed them
selves, the violence of the shocks has
been marked by q decrease and this
VIII probably continue to decrease as
the adjustment being sought by the
ranges Is attained"
ANOTHER VIEWPOINT.
The opinion of DR.. Pack. however is
That given by a geologlst and as such
may be credited with the authority his
name carries in matters OF the kind.
Down in Dixie, however, the people
VINO experience these shocks have an
other version. They believe the dis
tllrDAnHaG an IA
some degree of fear When their tea
Kettles prance about on the top of their
stoves and their chickens stagger about
the dooryard as If filled with the exu-
bsrance OF intoXication, they think
something is amiss.
In the little tremor which visited the
country in the vicinity of Newhouse
Frisco, Beaver Modena and other.
points these and other things hap
pened last night. Many or them were
tinged in no slight degree with humor
and others were pathetic. The fear of
a mother for her baby and the totter-
ing steps OF man much respected
for his sobriety were in sharp con-
trast
NEWSPAPERMAN TALKS.
a tralever from the south brought
the news of the shock TO this city. He
was j. p, May, Wyoming newspaper
man. OF the shock, he said
when l arrived here at 6: 80 this
morning the first man / wished to sec
was the news agent. Securing pap
er imagine my astonishment TO see no
mention made OF the earthquake AT
Milford last evening at about $50
was sitting in my uncle's home, H. n.
Pitchforth's, when suddenly the house
rocked to and fro as though 1t were
upon truck and being violently wheel
ed along a pavement. 1t lasted about
10 seconds. All sound and vibration
barely died away when another shock.
more severe, followed. BY this time
lights in the upper buildings began
to disappear and the streets to throng
with people. BY this time l was on
the way 10 the telephone office to find
how general the quake was and wheth-
er or not the earth had completed its
present line of duty and was about to
give Mars an example in building
canals.
A MOTHERS FEAR.
While enroute another shock oc-
CURED. This was the hardest of the
seven or eight disturbances Passing
one house l heard and saw woman
with babe in her arms earnestly pray
ing, % Lord. II the end has come for
give us of our sins. Bless us with
Thy mercy and care. or course |
didn't have time or disposition to listen
W DAlN VI Ailt HlpSA hlllCtIt prayers !
ever heard, II struck me pretty hard
and | wondered II il we're not good
idea for me to begin and follow suit
THE information attainable before
train No. pulled out was that the
shocks We're felt severely at Newhouse.
Frisco. Beaver and Modena, and in
termediate points. The tremblings OF
the various waves preceded the rocking
motion. Although an earthquake As
literally very earthly matter relat-
ing TO settings. slidings, or what not.
on the crust we learn to believe so
staple and secure, yet In reality to
me those waves, with their predeces-
sors. in the form OF deep groans and
thunderlngs, are the most unearthy of
all sensations / ever felt"
Or. Pack said az noon that the seis-
mograph at the university for three
hours had been vibrating with some
show OF violence. The instrument al
the university has two pendulums, ono
for recording movements In a north
sout plane and the other for east
west movements. II is the north
south pendulum which became agitat-