Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — EVANSVILLE SHOCKED. [ARTICLE]

EVANSVILLE SHOCKED.

An Earthquake Gives the Pocket a Shaking Up. People Rash Panic Stricken from tbe Chnrchee, Fearful that the Laet Day Had Come. A dispatch from Evansville on the 30th says. The most distinot shock of earthquake aver felt here occured at 8:28 this evening. It was preceded by a rumbliug noise resembling distant thunder. A moment later violent quaking occurred, lasting several seconds. The motion was lateral, apparently from north to south. Windows rattled and buildings swayed perceptibly. The populace fled in affright into the streets. Every upon store in the business center and private residences were emptied of their occupants. Congregations at ail the churches rushed pell mell into the streets without waiting for the benediction. Serious panics occured at several churches. At the First Baptist a number of children fell down the steps and were hurt: none, however, dangerously. No fatalitit • have yet been reported. It was at first supposed that the powder magazines, four miles from the c tv. had exploded, but telephone inquiry from the vicinity proved this groundlesr Theshock then* was as forcible as in the city. It was undoubtedly an earthquake and the worst one ever experienced in this vicinity. The motion was from southwest to northeast, and lasted nearly five seconds. It was a succession of shocks so close together a 9 tomake it resemble a collapse of heavy buildings. Reports are coming inconstantly to the newspaper offices of prevalent fear throughout the city, and it I, safe to say there will not be much slueping done to-night. The quake was also fell at Mt. Vernon and Henderson. Reports received from surrounding town? show that the earthquake was local. I* was felt at Dekoven and Henderson, Ky.. and at various places eighty miles up the Ohio river. Mormon missionaries in southernCallfornla have made several notable converslo ns to polygamy.