People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — Horses and Earthquakes. [ARTICLE]

Horses and Earthquakes.

It is a well-known fact, says the Mascot, that horses can hear sounds that are not perceptible' to human ears. For days previous to- the great earthquake in the Riviera the horses of that locality showed every symptom of fear, which continued without change of character, unless it was in the direction of greater frenzy, till the fury of the jp-eat convulsion broke forth. Not until a few seconds, however, before the earth began to tremble did human beings hear the subterranean rumblings. One writer from, the scene says that in bis opinion the horses knew that t,he quake was. op the way from seventy-two to one hundred hours before their masters heard or felt the first jar. -