Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — THE EARTH OPENED IN GAPS. [ARTICLE]

THE EARTH OPENED IN GAPS.

Cocopah Smith, au American trapper • accompanied by Gardner, a hunter, and Kspito, a Cocopah Indiao, have returned

from the Gulf of California and gives ad ditional details concerning the earthquak and tidal wave of last week. About o'clock in the morning a heavy shod struck the country about five miles beloi I Leredo, a colony in the State of Sonora Mexieo, on the Colorado river. The sk darkened and a thunderstorm arose, ao companied by great flashes of lightning The shaking of the ground increased am the crackling, grinding noise of crumblint hills was intensified. A second shock caused the earth to ope: in many places, some fissures being fron four to seven feet wide and from twenty to thirty feet long, seemingly fathomless The men were thrown to the ground b] the force of the shock. A mile away the] noticed a fissure in the middle of the rivet bed, into which the Colorado was pourini with much noise. A third shock destroyed three small habitations of colonists anc cracked the remaining ones. No hum&r beings were lost, but a large amount o‘ live stock was killed.