NEW YORK SHAKEN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16722, 6 May 1925, Page 10

NEW YORK SHAKEN.

-■ SEVERE EARTH TREMORS. SWAY ING SKY,SCRAPERS. NEW YORK, March 2.--Ah earthquake, which New Yoi'k. the city of skyscrapers, fears more than anything else, shook the metropolitan area lasi night, and while no serious damage is reported millions of people were alarmed and thousands rushed front their homes and sought the open. spaces. The earth tremors began twenty-one minutes after nine o'clock artd lasted four minutes, three distinct shocks being felt. The proximity of the centre of the earthquake to New York city is shown by the fact- that the seismograph needle at, Fordham University was dislodged. On' the streets of New York th 6 shocks were unnoticed, but- in some of the theatres the audiences became alarmed, and high up in the skyscraper offices and hotels the shocks were felt distinctly, and windows rattled and pictures and maps on the walls slid about. In the editorial offices of the. New York World, twenty storeys above the street, three shocks were felt, and according do that newspaper’s account,

“tin;, steel skeleton of the structure swayed like a rt*ed in the breeze.” I‘lleeteiu iiglits suspended from the ceilings swung to and fro. and the swaying motion was so pronounced that people on (lie tup floors reported their sensations as verging oil nausea. Within a few inintiles after the earthquake the. police headquarters and newspaper oltices were swamped with telephone inquiries, ail'd the police, believ'e dial had the tremors occurred when the skyscrapers were crowded with millions of pople there would have been a. seriate pAnic. hast night's distnrburfce is the first of any consequoilc'e i'o be felt ill the immediate vicinity of New York. lieports of nunor damage have been r'c reived from Buffalo, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsbitrg, Chicago, Detroit. and many New England ’ (owns, including Boston. “Tall office buildings.” says a report from the latter cllv, “moved with a peculiar lateral motion.” MOST SEVERE SINCE 1,755. The shock.last, evening was felt as far north as iSud'biirv in C'madn. as far-south as Florence in South Carolina, and as fur west as Wisconsin. The seismograph at Foriiham University recorded an earth movement of otic-thirt mill of an inch. The tremor was the, greatest in intensitv in the Eastern United Stales since 1755, and caused great excitement m parts of New York, people mailing from their homes, pictures and crockery falling, chairs aiul chandeliers s wiving. One man was killed and two women seriously injured Ihrotigli being shaken off the platform of the elevated railway, hut these <ire •(•111* difly casualties so fat reported. Apparently there wits lilt It damage to property.