Descriptive Report.
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Maidenburgh Street.—Many chimneys thrown down and an
old cottage partially wrecked. It is of interest to note that
this cottage was seen to topple over by a young lady who was
walking in Sheep's Head Meadow, at the back of the Castle,
and who is stated to have felt nothing of the shock.
Eld Lane, Long and Short Wire Streets.—At the Com-
mercial Cafe (Short Wire Street), Mr. W. C. Aberdein
compared the sound accompanying the shock to "the discharge
of a 68 pound gun on the upper deck as felt in the lower
deck of a ship," the direction of the disturbance being
apparently from the S.W. Bells were rung, and four feet of
the centre stack of four flues broke through the roof, the
brickwork being thrown towards the S.W. Three clocks
swinging N.E. and S.W. were stopped at 9.20, and one
swinging N.W. and S.E. was not stopped. The plaster of
the ceilings in the bedrooms, built with their rears towards
the S.W., showed various cracks. Mr. Aberdein adds that
"the chimney-pot and part of the brickwork of a tall
chimney on Mr. J. Garland's premises facing the south and
west fell, leaving a chimney-pot and brickwork built towards
the north and east entire." In Long Wire Street heavy
chimney-stacks were thrown down at Mr. George's boot shop
(No. 2), and at the Ipswich Shoe Warehouse (No. 33). At
Mr. McQueen's (No. 32), glass in the shop window was broken.
At Mr. Marriott's (No. 29), a sheet of plate-glass in the shop
window was cracked from top to bottom. Along Eld Lane
numerous chimneys were overthrown, and at the time of our
visit the heaped-up wreckage was piled against the sides of
the houses so as to clear the street.
St. John's Street.—The Rookery (Miss White's) damaged
by falling brickwork of chimney-stacks. A clock stopped;
plane of oscillation of pendulum E. and W.
Osborne, St. Botolph, and Queen Streets.—House of Young
Womens' Help Society damaged by the fall of two chimney-
stacks. Mr. Stone's premises at the corner of the two first-
named streets slightly cracked.27 A high chimney (new) on
27 Mr. J. C. Shenstone reports:—" In the centre of the parapet there
are two cracks, each about two feet long, one going straight down by the
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