| Show I SUCCfSSIN Of F EARTHQUAKtS I PECULIAR BOMBARDMENT OF ISLAND OFMONTSSRRAT Open Ground Under Cultivation Thrown Up In Wave Formation Standing Objects Prostrated Correspondence of the Associated Press Kingston Jamaica June 6Mont serrat one of the lesser Leeward Islands Is-lands which is blessed with telegraph isolation and communicates with the outside world by mail only twice a month has just sent forth a somewhat reliable earthquake story For some time a period apparently coincident with the recent seismic disturbances dis-turbances on the mainland extending from Argentine through Brazil and the Guiana northward as far as Salvador Montserrat had felt repeated shocks But little attention was paid to these I They were slight and inoffensive and were regarded by the natives with the contempt born of familiarity But on May 1 as has already been cabled a remarkable thing happened From 1 a m to 6 a m the little island was fairly bombarded with shocks some of them lasting about two minutes min-utes with an occasional exceptionally heavy one thrown in Altogether during dur-ing the five hours there were fortyfive I shocks After that there was a lull of several hours and then came one or two more During the night there were others and so on at intervals by day and night for a week when the I I record stops What has happened in the island since Is not known here but the result re-sult of the seismic bombardment was I singular to Fay the least What may b regarded as peculiar was the effect on the surface of the soil I is said in a descriptive letter to hand by mail that In many places the open ground under cultivation was thrown up in wave formation thus to some extent destroying the cultivation Trees small houses fences and similar objects ob-jects were prostrated In a uniform direction di-rection as though a cyclonic blast had passed over them Elsewhere in the lilll Interior several landslides were precipitated pre-cipitated which um some damage to the limes The total injury however is less than might have been expected and the crop will not be appreciably affected af-fected Montserrat is famous the world over for the excellent lime juice and essential oils which make it far better known commercially than geographically |
