Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — EARTHQUAKES. [ARTICLE]

EARTHQUAKES.

Incidents of the Recent Shake-up in the East. [New York telegram.] On Sunday during the'funeral of Lewis Ingler, Jr., the young man who committed suicide at Amityville, L. 1., an extraordinary scene occurred. As the minister was about to kneel in prayer the shock of the earthquake shook the house. A large mirror, which reached from the ceiling to the floor, was cracked. in two from the top to the bottom, and the walls of the room were cracked in two platees. The flowers were shaken from the coffin and the silver handles on the sides of the casket rattled. The minister and several of the mourners fainted. When the shock was first felt nearly every one in the parlors remained motionless. Then there was a stampede to get outside, and one lady jumped through an open window and sprained her leg so that she had to be carried to her home. The women who fainted were carried outside to the open air. The minister was unable to go on with the service, and the mourners and others remained outside while the pall-bearers re-entered the house and carried the coffin out to the hearse. A broom-handle can be laid into the cracks in the wall. The earthquake caused the brick chimneys of two houses to fall at East Norwich. The Presbyterian Sunday school at Jamaica had its walls serried by cracks, one to two inches in width, extending from its roof to its foundation. A colored campmeeting in Fleetwood was broken up by the shock, and all in attendance being on their knees at the time, jumped up shouting, and ran from the woods to their homes. Mrs. Charles Scheler, of Plainfield, N. J., was so affected by the earthquake that she died in a few hours.