EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1683, 25 February 1913, Page 5

EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.

CONTINUE AT AVESTI'ORT.''; > v MINERS' ■'AtARMI^;"BXI?ER?BN^y;\;.:;- ■ (Br ■Tclcßraph.-ProEB 'Association!) .;,-: - ; "■' • •;;'; Wostport, Fciiruaty 24- '','■>■' Eartliquake. stocks.-. I>iiw.,IKS»U,PJFACiiM| :-'■'.■' ally.'continuous. from, j 12.3Q dix. hWurdaK ;.; ; ■till;. 8 Mil. to-day. '■' : ,'','': V',.-'■ '.' Thoro wcro pronounced.' slis.kcs at 3.117 ■.-,•.■> a.m., 7.30. a.in.j and 7.'45 v accompanied .■■■ .'.{■;■ by a noiso. similar.to'. eaniiohadin&..' , ': : " 'No damage' has been", done sinco t-ho. first-big. sboct,;'but tbo'voinea-and' tho ;• '.'•'■ younger- portion of tho population aro. ia.. ' „ .■ •r ; a state of apprehension,;., •■-',.-.'',"',/.. ''• In three or four places m the district.,' i'.'-.•; narrow fissures lw\«s' opened, in.; tho, ;•,•■ ground, mostly in ground. • Som«(„ :,■-•■;,. lieadsl'oiies woro. displaced in the, ; oeme<„, f . fiery, and scores.; of.. gas nianM«s.,,hav<( '■ .' been' broken in tho town, . ~ 1 ',,.,.'. ', Quito a "sea" ragMiin the river. All.. ■.., , hands -uttp below oh the Steamer ' Karon;. and rushed to tho deck when the biflf \ shako was felt , " Z i Arriving steamers report no disturb \ anoo at sea ' * It is almost impossible to count tho number of chnnnoys damaged Noarlv < every hminehold in tlio district has had i artiolos "thiown duwn, with cxlontiw ' bronlaigcs in nnnj places > Men inside tho collieries report a ter- j rifyinp experience. It «ccm.cd as if a. • general col)ap=o wa' imminent, bnttjiero { was no aotuol dauinfto to (]\<j mines > ' Liter | Tho plaster in the ceillnßS of tho State i schools is looso, and being in dinger of falling nil tho children vcro dispersed j ■ tills morning ponding repairs. * There are slight clacks in tho wall of , ' tho AWtport Coal Oonipinj'i lnlwralon i 1 also choinicnls to the nine of til veto i destroy* d. I Thera hiivo bron no furth6r shocks since 713 n iu, i