AN INDESCRIBABLE SCENE.
SLEEPING CITY'S AWFUL AWAKENING. WHAItVES SINK BENEATH THE' WAVES. j TREMOH FELT IN ENGLAND. Ifueeivcd 19,10.30 p.m. Loxdox, April 19. The tremor travelled llu entire Con-' tiuent, and was recorded at Washington, Ottawa, Vienna, and the Isle of Wight. Three severe shocks occurred in the morniug at intervals of Home hours, aud ((lighter shocks in the afternoon and early in the evening. Wk'ii the great shuck earn* must vi
the inhabitants were asleep. They rushed from their beds to the streets clad in their night attire. Buildings were tottering and crashing down, and showers of f«m«g chimneys, cornices and walls fell crushing and mangling many. The terror and excitement was indescribable. The modern tall steel frame structures stood better than brisk and wooden tenements. Some of the docks and freight sheds slid into the bay. Deep fissures opened near the shore, The business districts betweon Market and Howard streets, from the bay a» far west as the City Hall, were especially wrecked.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8089, 20 April 1906, Page 2
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165AN INDESCRIBABLE SCENE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8089, 20 April 1906, Page 2
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