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Show SHOCKS AND MORE SHOCKS. There must be something wrong with Salt Lake City. The capital has had another spell of the "quakes." At 12:10 o'clock this morning the city shook as though just recovering from delirium tremens. The Tribune's account of the tremor follows: Salt Lake City was shaken, but not rocked, and part of it was awakened by an earthquake about 12:10 o'clock this morning. The quake was of the same severity, almost, as the 11 o'clock shock Sunday morning, and lasted probably four seconds. The quake not only shook several of the buildings around town, including both the telephone companies' structures and the Luxor and Windsor Hotel buildings, but attracted the attention of pedestrians, and in several instances in-stances awakened persons. Residence windows rattled, and in the north yard office of the Oregon Short Line, A. C. Wilber in charge, books were shaken from the shelves. At Ninth West and Fourth North streets, a sleeper awakened by the first quake Sunday morning was asleep in the same room of his residence and again was roused from slumber. The baggageman at the Denver & Rio Grande depot said the quake shook things around with some violence there. We have no way of knowing, except through the Salt Lake papers, as to the moral status of that city. Before the cities of the plain were destroyed, the wickedness was so great that the wrath from on high grew into a cataclysm of nature. First the earth rocked, rock-ed, then brimstone followed by fire wiped out the moral plague. The daily reports in the Salt Lake papers of that city's sinfulness sinful-ness are so shocking that these repeated admonitions may be interpreted inter-preted as a rebuke which, if not heeded, will be followed by the sinking of the earth and the flowing in of the waters of the Dead Sea of America to obliterate the last vestige of iniquity. Salt Lake should realize it3 critical position and pray for a purification. |