| Show fOUR STATES ROCKED BY BYAN BYAN AN EARTHQUAKE TREMOR Chicago Iny 20 Chicago 23 Chicago and ind four states stales wore were rocked by ly an flit earthquake this morning throwing at least east half of its inhabitants into a mortal terror as ns the Messina i horrors were still fresh in their minds Every Ivery Ever city elly village e and anil hamlet In Northern Illinois felt Celt the shock and the lie panic was wide spread Iowa lawn Michigan Michigan Mich lIch igan and Wisconsin were also in the path of or tho Thousands of persons were ware aroused from their slumbers slumbers slum slum- bers tiers and in the foreign settlements of ot Chicago particularly particular whore the lie Italians and Sicilians congregate cons there wa wat a alarm which gave ave rise to walling g and pra prayers ers us tho the Inhabitants thought that they were vere about to suffer the tho same fate which destroyed ed so many thousands antis ands of or their countrymen There Thero was one greater shock followed by two lesser shocks and big skyscrapers skyscrapers skyscrapers sky sky- scrapers In the downtown district trembled like living ll beings with the ague Many old structures collapsed In different parts of the tho city dishes were thrown off orr shelves and broken Windows were cracked In many portions of or the tho residence districts of Maywood and other hun bun towns anti and the re residents were sero HO so frightened that they ran mu Into the streets rearing fearing that the roofs were about to rail fall over their heads The Tue progress of or the quake seems to toha ha have been from south to north The oscillation of the earth was waK recorded on the tho new weather bureau seismograph graph n at Peoria at ul 8 38 o'clock It was 8 10 when the tho trem gripped the tho federal fed fed- eral building bul in Chicago and 8 5 45 when it was felt Celt in Iowa There Is no recording recording record record- ln ing instrument in the tho Chicago office but Professor Cox chief of the local weather bureau reported u a perceptible swaying of or tho the electric lights and movement of ot the tile building At the principal observatory of or tho government geological and meteorological JI gic c l 1 departments in Washington tI shock made Itself felt relt beginning at forty otto minutes and thirty seconds after aCter 0 Ii o'clock Eastern time There I was waH not enough detail In the record at that distance however to determine determine- tho the exact location of or tho the center of o the disturbance Various descriptions of or the ef effects of- of rocta of or tho the slight alight quake were given Its duration WOK was estimated at between n I five and ten seconds In Chicago but outside the time was given givon in somo some places at half haU a minute tress Press dispatches and n I special telegrams telegrams tele tele- I grams brought a succession of accounts accounts ac uc- ac- ac counts of the earthquake from Spring Spring- field fiill I Freeport Aurora Bloom Bloom- Kewanee Geneva Streator Dixon Rockford Ill III Milwaukee Mil m- m waukee Jan lc Win Whit IH Cedar Codal Rapids Dubuque Burlington ton Iowa Ka Muskegon Mich and a nI many other u points koot Broken china l nl and windows were w 11 im imported i- i ported from South Haven antI and Benton Harbor Mich Fires wore iero believed to have been started by the tue disturbance In III Aurora but no losses were toro sus aus- tamed At Streator halt half a n minute wa given ghen as an tho the duration of tho quiver of the earth eurth the shake being accompanied accompanied periled by a faint rumbling noise It Is not believed by scientists atthe at nt attile the tile University of ot Chicago that there tiler Is hi on any dan danger cr from further shocks al although nl- nl though they declare that they may happen They III In saying that the shork shock was as canoed by a slipping of the tho crust rust of or the tho earth and believe that this slipping occurred occulTed either beneath th the bed of or Lake Michigan or that It hud hind its origin In the uns fields In Inthe Inthe the northern part rt of Illinois There Is about aboul ton ten thousand acres of land In Inthis Inthis Inthis this re region lon which not compressed by the tremendous weight of or glaciers rs during the glacial period and for this reason the tile crust of or tho the earth carth had not been heen Ironed down dow as has other portions POI por of or the earth nearby and the crust Is Iii more likely to con contain ln the crack When hon the edges cd es of or this lila crack grind to together together to- to gether ethel ethelen en o for tor only A few row Inches tho the force torce expended Is so sp great reut that ft CL violent violent vio yb- lent tremor shakes the tile earth for hundreds hundreds hun bUn of miles |
