OCR Text |
Show CRUST OF EARTH TORN AND TWISTED BY CONVULSION WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 Somewhere, Some-where, perhaps leagues deep beneath be-neath the rolling blue of the Atlantic At-lantic and forever hidden (rom the eyes of man, the earth's crust was torn and twisted Thursday by a tltnntle convulsion. For hours the earth's surface shuddered under the feet of its heedless millions. Force waves thousands of miles in length swept outward from that storm center like ripples on n rock broken pool. Yet pniy the unsleeping seismograph seismo-graph noted It and inscribed a mute record for watchful scientists scien-tists who guard them. First word of the disturb- j ance came from Georgetown University Uni-versity here. When the Rev. Father Fa-ther Francis A Tondorf. director of the seismograph observatory peered at his delicate :m-h;mlsnt they told him of a shock more severe se-vere than any recorded in the last two years. Somewhere the power beneath the surface was still bulging bulg-ing at the earth crust holding It In check. Father Tondorf sent out word I of the shock, thinking it might be another great disaster. As the day went by, however, no word came back, leaving to conjecturo the scenes and exact nature of the disturbance. The experienced observer that h is. Father Tondorf classed the record of his instruments as that of a "terrible" shock. It began soon after 7 a. m. here, reached its greatest intensity towards 8 o'clock and vasstill leaving a wavering diminishing trull after noon, as the larth slowly settled to quiet |