Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-08
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vacilating and almost free from ire
pidatory motion.
| More than half of the dead account
| ell for were soldiers. They Were
caught beneath the falling walls OF
the artillery barracks at San Cessna
near the Mexican Central station.
Another place where the earthquake
was unusually deadly was at the City
| power plant of the Street Car Co
| There eight persons We're killed and
/ six We're wounded With these two
exceptions, the death list was made
up of single cases, or in a few in
| stances of two and three persons
caught beneath falling walls in un-
substantial buildings.
Although the casualties were con-
| fined to a comparatively small area,
this was the most serious shock the
capital has suffered in 20 years.
No personal property of Americans
was damaged. and with the exception
of one Chinese killed no foreigners
were injured.
In the old barracks where the sol
| diers We're killed, u women also lost
their lives. They Were the wives OF
artillerymen.
Three blocks from the barracks, the
yards of the Mexican Central at which
Madero had been scheduled To enter
presented another spectacle of the
shocks intensity. A wall was thrown
down and an engineer, who was ly-
ing by its side. was crushed 10 death
Washington. June 7.-Seismographs
throughout the entire country were
Jared at an early hour today by the
most severe earthquake that has been
recorded in several years. 1t is esti-
mated 10 have occurred 1000 or 5000
miles from Washington, but in what
direction could not be ascertained.
Whether the disturbance was located
in Alaska or in South America, sci
entists were unable To determine, but
they declared news of its loca ton un-
doubtedly would be forthcoming dur
ing the day.
Beginning at 6.07 o'clock this morn
ing, the needles of the seismographs
of the Georgetown University obser-
vatory began to move. The tremors
steadily increased in intensity ,eaus-
ing the needles to record an unusual
vibration. The maximum of the north
G. 22.05 and lasted eight minutes, while
the maximum of the east and west
was recorded at ga. last
ing 10 minutes. Gradually the tremors
subsidized and died away at ISL o'clock.
Father Tondorf declared that il in
Dictated the most severe earthquake
that had been recorded since the es-
of the Georgetown obser-
vatory, two years and a half ago.
New York, June IA severe earth
quake was recorded on the seismo-
graph of Fordham University this
The beginning of the quake
was at Gil o'clock with the principal |
shock seven minutes later.
Prof. Tiznan of F'ordham thought |
the center of the quake was about |
$500 to 5000 miles away. bur in which |
direction he could not say. -
None OF the telegraph and cable |
companies reported today any inter |
ruption of service. which generally fol-
lows in the district where the earth
quake is severest. The South Ameri-
can and transatlantic cables were
working all right and telegraph wires
in all directions were apparently not
fampered
Cambridge, Mass. June Am earth |
quake of the first order was recorded
by the Harvard University seismo-
graph today. The calculated distance
from Cambridge to the point of origin |
Of the shock is between 1900 and 27o0
miles. but it is not possible for the |
Harvard scientists to give any clue
whatever regarding the direction of |
the shock.
The earthquake began, according to
the instruments at Cambridge. at
5.09.39 A. NJ, and the second prelimi-
nary motion was recorded at 615.4S. |
The main wave came in at 6.26.04. A
second group of main waves was re-
corded at 6.3s.04.
The pendu1ums were still in motion |
at s.45 A. NJ, when the records were |
Although the shock recorded today
was of the first order. the pendulums |
yibrated more severely in January at |
The time of the earthquake in Turkes- |