Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1911 — SHOCK FELT HERE. [ARTICLE]

SHOCK FELT HERE.

Two very distinct earth shocks were felt in Rensselaer Thursday evening at 8:30 o’clock, and the shocks were felt all through northern Indiana, and as far South as Indianapolis they were very perceptible. The fact that at the same hour three carloads of dynamite let loose at the Dupont powder mills at Pleasant Prairie, Wis., wrecking that little town of 700 and killing many people, is thought probable to have caused the shock, although Indianapolis papers point to the fact that when the great Foritanet powder mills blew up near Terre Haute two years ago the shock was not felt in Indianapolis, though it was the most terriffic explosion of its kind in history. Pleasant Prairie is 250 miles from Indianapolis, yet the shock Thursday night caused much consternation there. In Rensselaer dishes were rattled and in some cases doors of houses swung open.