Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1904 — NEW ENGLAND JARRED. [ARTICLE]

NEW ENGLAND JARRED.

Earthquake Shock Lasting Three Seconds Stirs Up Several States. An earthquake which began iu St. John, N. 8., and is thought to have done considerable damage iu New Brunswick, Maine and Massachusetts, shook Boston at 1 o’clock Monday morning. The shocks are said to have been the most severe experienced in that section of the country since the memorable seismic disturbance of 1884. In Boston and suburbs houses were rocked like cradles, dishes. were tossed from shelves and furniture broken in many**homes. At Augusta, Me., several, chimneys were knocked down. The shock most severely felt in the vicinity of Boston was at Revere, a seashore town. In that town several houses rocked so that the occupants foiled from their beds, and at the telephone "exchange the operator, Russell Clark, was knocked from his chair. A policeman named McKenny, who was in the headquarters of the park police at Revere, was thrown violently to the floor and slightly injured. Clark, the telephone operator, says, that he felt a peculiar sensation all through his body when he was knocked from his chair. The shock was felt plainly as far south as Taunton. Reports from Manchester, N. IL, and Springfield, Mass., state that the vibrations were felt distinctly in those two cities. Observers at the Harvard University astronomical observatory iu Cambridge noted the shock. In Newburyport the earthquake shook everything. Watchman Harris Page of the Towle-Montgomery Company’s plant says the factory was shaken. In other sections of the city people were awakened by the rattling of doors and windows. Shelves and furniture were broken in many houses.