The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-26
Shocks Felt in Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Michigan.
BUILDINGS SHAKEN AND
FURNITURE THROWN ABOUT
Damage Reported in Several
Cities-Seisnic Disturbance
Was of Short Duration.
Especial to the Evening star. ]

CHICAGO, May ga distinct earth-
quake shock, varying in duration ia
different localities from four seconds
to half minute, was felt in Chicago
and through Central and Northern ILL
nois. Eastern Iowa, Southern Michigan.
Indiana and Wisconsin early today.
While the reports from the southern
parts of the State Indicate that the
shock was felt there before it reached
this locality, more than one observer
declared that chandeliers and other sus-
pended articles swung from north to
south.
While distinct and unmistakable, the
shock was not severe enough or of long
enough duration to excite general
alarm. The majority of the people did
not know what had happened until the
evening extras weer ON the street
The shock was felt in the office of the
local weather bureau in the dome Of
the Federal building. and in the fol-
lowing cities near Chicago: Lamont.
Joliet. Lockport, Riverdale, Downers.
Grove. Orland. Napierville, Evanston,
Peoria Kewanee, in Illinois, and Beloit
and Janesville. in Wisconsin. In Beloit
all the college buildings rocked
violently and houses throughout the
vicinity were shaken.
Furniture shaken.
The delicate Instruments Of the
weather bureau here wer not disar-
ranged. Il is said that the shock was
not to be felt at the street level, but
was to be noted at the second and
higher floors of buildings. 1t began
here at $40 a. m. and was felt for ten
seconds. At southern points the vibra-
ton lasted thirty seconds.
Professor Cox, the weather forecaster,
said that the lights in his Office swung
from north to south during the shock
and that the chairs and light desks
showed the effects of the vibration.
A young woman stenographer In the
Federal building thought that some
one had come up behind her and given
her. chair a shake.
You stop that she said angrily
turning around. only to discover that
there was nobody behind her and that
the rest of the office force was observ-
ing the swinging of large chandelier.
The entire valley of the Rock River
experienced the shock at $40. 1t was
oticed as far west as Davenport, Ia.
While the shock was not felt in
Benton Harbor. Mich. it was felt dis
tinctly in Penn Yam. hamlet twelve
miles south of that town. where win
dows were shaken and china broken.
shock in Muskeegon.
A few minutes before o'clock
slight shock lasting but a few seconds
was felt in Muskeegon, Mich.
In Peoria the shock was felt at s:38
a. m. 1t lasted four seconds andfwas
recorded on the new weather bureau
seismograph. Many of the larger build
ing We're shaken, and it was felt in the
residences on the bIuff more perceptibiy
than downtown.
In a dispatch from Sterling, Illinois.
il was said that the earthquake did
considerable damage in the vicinity OF
Tamico. Efie and other small towns
in the southern part of the county.
WASHINGTON D. c., May ga
very slight disturbance. lasting about
minute, was recorded on the seismo-
graph at the United States Weather
Bureau here today, beginning at .
O'Clock. Il minutes and 80 seconds
Eastern time. There was not enough
detail in the record to Indicate the
axa,.r Iaca fior ~ fha disturbances