Show I EARTHQUAKE E CAUSES WilD EXCITEMENT IN MONTANA Buildings Are Badly Shaken and Cracked While the Residents of Virginia City Are Given a Severe Scare Virginia City Mont Two earthquakes earth-quakes ten minutes apart tho first at 225 Monday afternoon caused tho wildest excitement in tho city Tho imnlcBtrlckcn people rushed into the streets In the belief that the buildings I build-ings were about to topplo over Structures Struc-tures trembled violently plaster cnmo down dishes were thrown to the floor tho main school building n two story brick was badly cracked and tho ground rent with Beams from one to three Inches wide Frank Pace who arrived from tho Crater lakes the scene of an extinct volcano six miles smith of hero where thirteen old crates have been filled with water forming a chain of lakes says that tho ground heaved pausing Immense fissures to form In the mountain and rending the cliffs Some of theso fissures arc from afoot a-foot and n half to two and n half feet wide There Is a belief that water of the Crater lakes has found Its way through some subterranean passages to the remnants of the fires of tho old volcanoes although tho Yellowstone park Is only 75 miles from here |