OXFORD SHAKEN

(Feb. 28, 1925)

Earthquake of Saturday Evening Distinctly Felt.  No Injury Occurred to Life or Property

   Saturday evening about 9:20 o'clock the people of the village were visited by a rather unusual phenomenon when several distinct tremors of the earth were felt lasting for about two minutes.  The tremor as visited upon this section was a wave like motion and buildings had the appearance of rolling as a ship swaying back and forth.  Astonished residents have been busy since the occurrence exchanging experiences of the pranks played by the undulations.  Chandeliers were swung back and forth, chairs were set rocking, doors were set swinging and china tinkled in cabinets as houses rocked with the moving earth.

   People went from their homes into the street to see the cause of affairs and some were very much frightened but they were reassured by others and returned to their homes.

   The cause of the quake has been undetermined although scientists generally agree that their observations seemed to indicate that the disturbance started beneath the ocean off the coast of New England.

   R. B. Hill, in charge of seismographs at the Museum of Natural History, stated that the tremors were caused by the slipping of a rock mass along the line known as Logan's fault, to which the last earthquake experienced here in 1914, was attributed.  The wave rolled on its journey from Canada to Florence, S. C. and as far west as Chicago, Detroit, Wisconsin and Denver.

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