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Show SHAKENJP. A Town Slides Off a Cliff To-ward To-ward the Sea. 5! IM IIUUSLS llKSTHtlYKI. A Theory About the Cause ct tho Singular Accident. in:: nivt miu iiisiuriii Ni Htm luil . Inr n Knonu- Mcmini nml (lilltlr.u tn,iit mil. I Ir. IONDot, MarcliS l,ila I,t night Iho I eo) loot Band (i'te, Kent, wire aroused by tin, rocking ol houiea and lout runitllnga unlirground. Walls 1 llt.ri llluga (oil, Inundatl mi sank and rco'sfell. As thu lnliDt.lt mts lied to tho ilieela thty found largu renta In Ihugrotind and wero nlinott nvircoma tij noxious 'vitiori. Thu dlraatcr was cauicd ty a laultlllo. Thu town la built upon a u in aratlvil) low cllir ilosututhu aoi. loo Maria are If lleved to have uulermlncd the cllll klid when that n tiled and ll pnl to-wurdathu to-wurdathu water It carried with II thu towc. Two hundred houioa weru destroyed. de-stroyed. l.verjboJy aupoel tho town was being ah ikeu by nil uatthiiuake, and as the rumbling conlluuid bundle Js Hod In panic to the beaieat toana. 1'un remnlne 1 1 ehlnd tu remove their fiirnl-turn fiirnl-turn from tho tailing houaea. Thu reort tarried abroad by Iugltlv, lauaiil thotrojps luaaaljacini ounn to Im, ten to the aid nl tlio uoplu all 1 1 III HaiiU (Jute. Hoi Hi n nud tltixeua worked for tvao hoiita lu moving thu moat valuable pro illy Irom the houaes aud In creeling teutaln the llelJs ohout a mllu outilde the tow u for women und cliluieii. At tho und of that tlmu the rumbllnga hail ceaaed nod uu Inveallg Hon waa m:iJo In town by thu command! r of the trooi i and several cltliaut. fbey lound that the ground ou which Haud Uatu alamls had eunk leverul feet, nf-ftcl'ng nf-ftcl'ng lu all about a t'jiare mile, lhe gaaaud water ni piles weredlelurbtd, bosuiplleaol lioui t,aa aud watir wuru stOwJ. Many cottages wiro wrecked conilelily and better built houna weie cracked and thrown uutot ilunib bo they nould not bu uicuplei Willi aaletv. KevoitheleM mauyluhabltunta reluruid to tuwn lowarja morumg. IletwiunB and Ou'cloik, ImwuvcMhi-j weiu Irlghteuid away by thu lurthir subsldoiicu ot Ihugruuiidaud a ricur rencuof tin ruublinga. Thu town la now pr cllcally dt.eiled. Aa tar aa known no Uvea were lost. |
