Show tb tho greit great earthquake larih larth quake ia in Y r or H CITY crry or r A MEXICO F ico jun junso 1858 1851 I 1 sias vias was on my mi wiy way tio to my hotels hot elv eli ell suade iff des les lex ly theearta the earth rocked beneath myce myee A tEw jy as louses at against ainest the van vall vau of a hodis the houses bouses commenced to cr crack a ck and roll about abbat bo a t like empty empy bottles ii it wafer water the atre streets eti vere were rapidly filled with young and old ome dress some in no drega dregs all making the most rightful frightful ado some laying flat oh oti their bell beli fei but most on their knee calling on all ail ibe ibs the saints in the mexican calendar to save them then their wives or hiis hlis bands banda their child childrens childre r 1 nj I ia ac C horses dogs and even the mules bulf a arill anil the stupid asses in iri the streets stood stock stork still quivering in every part pirt A second se cond oi or more gave gal me at ildea lidea ofia latwas trans transpiring and recollecting the exclamation of a carga adora ilora few seconds before that there was liti liri an earthquake I 1 recovered myself aa is I 1 was going headlong ia in the street on oil the rebound and arid beta bet akins kinz myself to a doorway took out my iny watch arld and commenced making notes of time and events As A I 1 laid hold of one side aide of the door which wai was the san francisco near the corner of the ver garn the houses in the street appeared to m me to be rocked about as if they were made ef of cork and arid at tile the time were floating on a stormy water windows cracked patio lamps were hurled through portals into the streeta street altogether there appeared to me to be kut lut little chance of getting through the trouble with whole body andi lones iones I ones eo so I 1 made my way aa as best I 1 could over the heaving beaving pavement to the corner of the street moved thither by the general instinct exhibited by all living creatures A crowd of lepetos le peros donkeys doi dof keys P hore horses some bome ladies and a few gentlemen soon formed formea ry ivy companions when I 1 arrived at the corner I 1 vas was the only person standing all the rest ret were on their knees knee or bellies hel hei lies lles but a few feir seconda seconds brought several who also kaptan upright position most of them for bravado at the corner I 1 could see tile the national theatre the hotel iturbide the progreso the academy at the corner and several other large buildings they were all heaving to aja aid fro inace most mot moi alarming al armina armint I 1 manner iua tua i I 1 iner for nr my own part I 1 could not conceive how bow they thy were able to 6 OB on of the thet hocks bocks so violent were they and to heaving but fortunately no bouse bouge in th range of my vision came down the hock bock 5 lasted for nearly three minutes although all the heavy heary swells passed within the ef of two minutes fes eds f the first shock was vas light and tin by me alt ait although bough noticed by a carga to orthola I 1 was passing at the moment is bo ho was seated OH oil a corner stone I 1 had tim timo to cross tha the str e ei after the first shock and had gone some bome twenty fee fed thep when then the tile statement of the tha turned out after the heavy shocks chocks then there were s everal several lighter ones which were very annoying 11 to foot passengers e the earth wa wax contracting into its place and gate gave avral several evral diba disa disagreeable 1 twinges and jerks the first shock camer camerin from tn the south east and vas was followed oli oil oll owed by irom from rhe the saxa san direction when A hen the motion suddenly budder ily lir turned turn edt to east arid and weft west and arid gave rave uv four heavy burgh which was followed by others of less leaa strength the tile whole affair aft lir lin created tilt tile th wort bort intense excitement throughout taip this city mity it admitted dh no jio abatement for three or four days dayd the previous gossip which had bad existed regarding the forced loans banishment am sad nd denly was hustled and all were absorbed ia in lear learning ning the truth of the chich hsi hai passed for the first nig pig wiit glit and day the populace flocked to the tho saiu squares tres and arid prill principal cipal openings in the city the tt je first the alameda AI ameda and grand plaza were fied fillet yieh vieb thousands thousand of people who kept watch fars seep they coirini not on account of a argeneral ace Ase impression prevailed that khat there would bt be repetition within fair hours houra after the tac visitation fortunately this did not come the circuit of lof this earthquake is not att exactly known but bul already it is known tr t have bave extended over an ail area of sik sif ir hundred miles mites it is also impossible as yet to toas toai ascar cM tain where the acocks cane ca ne from some i ia cline lothe to belief that they originated in ihk volcano in an on account of the thc almost entire of the tha tow town of others think the shock shocks were wen caused by some bome internal movements move ments menta on the J pacific coast near pear acapulco astae village of mis lifts rely sixty boilsen 4 hating bating 7 been boon thrown down NY MY mor mir aid eid duly guly july 16 |