Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — FACTS ABOUT THE LATE EARTHQUAKE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FACTS ABOUT THE LATE EARTHQUAKE.

• Principal cities where shock was fell. Route of earthquake from south to the north and northeast. Initial point and southern extreme, Comayngun and Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Northern extreme, Green Bay, Wis. Western extreme, Beatrice, Neb. Eastern extreme, Cleveland, Ohio. Lust point where shock was felt in North America, Chatham, Ont. From Chatham the seismic shock made Its way across the Atlantic to Homo and Naples, where Its last wave was felt. X Charleston, Mo., seismic focus, where shock was severest, causing the earth to open and water and sand to gutih forth. Time of shock—Great seismic disturbance at midnight, Oct. 1(1, at Tegucigalpa and Conmyngua, Honduras. Earthquake at 5:07 a. in., Oct. 31, at Chicago, New Orleans and all points in Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio ltlver valleys. Earthquake at 5:10 a. m., Nov. 1, at Home

and Naples. The time in nil these instances is taken front the most definite telegraphic dispatches received in Chicago, science not having recorded tho quake. Latitude and longitude of boundary points of quake: Latl- Longitude. tude. Tegucigalpa 14.(1 80.53 New Orleans 120.58 00.4 Gadsden 34.3 80.5 Charleston, Mo. 80.37 80.21 Beatrice 40.17 00.43 Green Bay .44.30 88.00 CHICAGO 41.31 87.85 Cleveland 41.81 81.42 Chatham, Ont 42.34 82.20 ROME, ITALY 41.54 N. 12.80 E In the history of seismic disturbances In North America none aro recorded of so far-roaching influence as this memorable mid-continent shock.

MAP SHOWING PRINCIPAL CITIES WHERE THE SHOCK WAS FELT.