Scencs Attending the Recant Eurthquake unknown A NIGHT OF TERROR.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 222, 1 October 1887, Page 2

Scenes Attending the Recant Eurthquake unknown

A NIG HT OF TERROR.

■&ChiCvgo "Tints'*' special from Evsn'is"Vllle, Intl., referring to tho sinking of ituicl Trigg County, Ivy., since tho earthquake recently, says : — From a gentleman *who has just ni rived from Hopkinsvillle, the following particulars were obtained : He says' that tho country- about tho scene is low and swampy, and nlmo-t inaccessible In place.-, two by the old beatc-n paths. Much'of it is wild and contains forge and denso wood*. (Golden Toncl is a mere hamlet containing two tettlemesits of negroes, who eko out a living by woiking on • se\eral large farm-* owned by non-iesident-*. •On Monday night about 6 o'clock several of them felt "lie eaith tremble, bnit thought ■ nothing serious had occurred bey ondh slight tremor. After gossipinyw uit they \\vent'to bed. After 12 o'clock everybody was awakened by a sharp sho>-k, and had barely jumped to their feel when the ■catth, with a '-hading, di//y ■motion, suddenly sank a distance ot five j^cl, carrying the houses and louihed darkks with it. The scenes that cn-ued tallied description. The negroes fell on ti eir knee^ and infrenzitd tones piaycd the T^ord to &a\e them. Otheis began shouting and praying, ever and anon ea^tm: ' an upward gliince to see if ch.uiots of tire were not descending. Added to thi- pandemonium was the intense daiknc-s w-iich pievailed, fche moon being- complota'y obtcured by boavy black ekmdb, which hung very low, and like a pall over the linomcd district, and rumblings weic hearxl.from the depths below, which giadually )>eeamc louder. Numeroussprings hidden (for yeai^ suddenly found an opening and bt~t n to bubble up\ward in constantly incvea£ : ng stream';. The terrified inhabitants, not pausing for household good.-, or chattels, gathered their offspring, hurried and n.shed away from the doomed spot. The more courageous ones only tied until 11 cy reached safe ground, and there waited until daylight, >svhen they ventuied back to the scene of > the night's terror, and <_o/ed s.ully upon the ruins spread befoic them. Cher 250 acres of tine faim land, including one magnificent plant it ion e.vned by Z. H. Hayden, lay fiom ii\o to pv feet b.low the le\cl of the smrounding ct untty, and contained about thiec feel of v, ater fiom springs staitrd by earthquake^. A large area of tobacco and coin v, ill be a total loss. Nearly all the cabinr, ha\ c been torn loose and are lloatiuLT about in -vanou 1 -; positions, while huuse'nold goou-> arc mixed up in inextiicable coufu^ic:!. 'Fortunately no lhes have been 1 )ft, but the 10-s to property is incalculable. The catastiophe was undt«nbtedly c.iufcd 'by the earthquake w hich wr-^ notieenble in Tenne^si.■e, Mi^ouri, Kentucky, and Indiana at 12 30 a.m., as the tumbling sounds, and \ibiation^ felt v-ie fimilar to •that seiMiiic di-.hu banco. (Jtklen I'ond ,is about 100 miles di taut Lorn the f -pot \ivhere a similar cata&tiophc ojtiirred about -eoventy years ago, when a h'ke of lar^e area suddenly disappeared, leaving nothing 'but the bed, in the centie of vririch v,ii^ a liole of unfathomable depth sac seveta! hundred yauK in diameter.