SEVERE EARTHQUAKES AT SYDNEY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 331, 5 July 1875, Page 3

SEVERE EARTHQUAKES AT SYDNEY.

Mr J. T. Knight Cohn writes to the Sydney Evening Eews as follows “On Thursday night, the 30lh ult., about eight o’clock, the whole of the Cobar was thrown into great commotion by a frightful shock of earthquake. The shock appeared to come from the north, and lasted about three minutes. The nearest description I can give of it is that some great explosion had taken place near at hand, the vibration being so great that every board in the house trembled to such an extent that those standing kept their feet moving as though they were on a treadmill. I have often heard of people’s hair standing on end, but never witnessed it before to-night. Children were awoke from their slumbers. Mothers were screeching and falling off in hysterics. Miners rushing from their work below, fearing the whole was falling in upon them. Parties out burning charcoal saw the kiln rise in front of them, the fright of which threw them from their equilibrium. Horses and cattle galloped about like mad. Many of the inhabitants knelt down and prayed, in fact everyone thought their last day had come. I have felt two shocks before in Victoria, but nothing to equal the onejust left us. Another heavy shock occurred about three o’clock on the morning of the 4th inst, causing the sleepers to roll from their beds; that is, those that were in bed, manybeing too frightened to take their usual rest. We have had a succession of shocks up to Sunday, 6th instant, 2 p.m. At Tindary, forty miles distant, the shock was also very great, causing water to overflow the banks, and for half an hour afterwards the water was splashing about like heavy waves, and the glasses and crockery falling from the shelves.”