FEARFUL EARTHQUAKES IN AMERICA.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 170, 7 June 1872, Page 6

FEARFUL EARTHQUAKES IN AMERICA.

: earthquake shocks at Lone Pine, U.S., Have been terrible. They commenced on March 26th. The town was in ruins. Twenty-three people were killed and about" thirty wounded. Eive hundred heavy shocks occurred in thirty hours, &nd about fifty houses were shaken down. A telegram says :—The scene which ensued beggars description. Screams and groans rent the air in all directions. ' Nearly the whole populace of the town was buried beneath the ruins ; cries for help and screams of pain from the wounded filled the air, while from ruins those who escaped were callih° f for help to rescue fathers, brother!/ wives and children, were agonizin» to hear. The first shock was followed in quick succession by three others. Over three hundred distinct shocks were felt between half-past two and sunrise ; in fact, the earth was in a. constant shake and tremble for over three hours. A chasm was opened extending thirty-five miles d >wn the.vaU ley, ranging from three inches to fyrty-feet in width. Rocks were' torn., from their pkces and rollied dewn into the valley. Everywhere through* the valley are seen evidences of the terrible convulsion of nature. And this a description of the shocks felt next day, and what resultedUp to "Wednesday morning fully one thousand distinct shocks were, felt. At Tibbet's ranch, fifteen miles above Independence, about forty acres of ground sunk about seven feet below the surface of tbe surrouuding country. Bijg Uwenay Lake has risen four feet since the first: shock. Owens Kiver ran over its bank depositing shoals of fish on shorq after it receded. For a distance of ? three or four miles through Long Pine *■ the earth cracked, one side remained stationary, while the other sank seven - or eight feet, leaving a wall of earth extending over three miles in length, where foriiaerly was a plain, innumerable cracks were made throughout the valley... Kern and Owens rivers turned and ran up stream for several minutes, leaving their beds dry, and finally returned With largely -' increased volumes of water. J ;