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WAS IT AN EARTHQUAKE?
[Welland Tribune, 25 November 1892]
On Thursday forenoon last week a shock as of an explosion was distinctly felt over portions of this county. At this (TRIBUNE) office, Welland, the shock was felt by all in the building, the plate glass giving an alarming jolt. From Fort Erie to Sherkston the shock was still greater. Windows rattled, houses shook and a distinct sound was heard. It was believed at first that there had been an explosion in the gas field, but inquiry by telegraph to Sherkston and Ridgeway put this theory at rest. At Sherkston the noise was that of a distant explosion of nitro-glycerine. Inquiries fail to reveal any source of such trouble and the conclusion is that an earthquake or that something gave way in the bowels of the earth-possibly owing to the extraction of the natural gas from the earth-as the shock was most apparent along the gas field. Nature abhors a vacuum, and if the gas is taken away from a large space in the earth’s interior it would seem almost a necessity that something should tumble into its place. What affect the wholesale reduction of gas inflation in the interior may have upon the world’s surface it would be decidedly unwise to prognosticate.
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