62 The East Anglian Earthquake.
Mr. Moore's (comer of Brook Street) and neighbouring
cottages, the stacks in the former case breaking through the
roof and causing much damage. Chimneys were also
thrown down at the "Duke of York" Inn. Writing from
No. 12, East Hill, Mr. Wilson Marriage reports that three
clocks in his house were stopped, one swinging E. and W.
and the other two N. and 8., the time being given as nearly
9.20. Mr. Marriage is of opinion that the general direction
of the seismic movement was S.E. to N.W. At East Mill
flour sacks were thrown down, and the shock was felt by
some men in a barge on the river between the mill and the
Hythe. These men stated that " they distinctly saw the wave
pass across the meadows lying between East Bridge and the
Tendring Hundred Railway." Unfortunately the direction
of the movement was not given at the time.
Hythe Hill.—At Messrs. Davey, Paxman and Co.'s Engine
Works, on the top of the hill, a wooden girder, about 16 feet
long fell over towards the south. This girder was supported
in an upright position by beams near the roof, in a long
building having an E. and W. direction. Mr. Shenstone
reports with respect to this building as follows :—" A plate
fixed into its east wall supporting a beam (which beam helps
to support the roof) was pulled two inches out of the wall and
has remained so. As the wall is quite uninjured I should
attribute it to the roof having been bowed in, and not to
the wall being bent."
St. Leonard's Rectory, Hythe.—The Rev. Dr. Manning
reports that at the Rectory two distinct shocks were felt,
closely following one another, a booming subterranean noise
accompanying the first. Out of five clocks, all with
pendulums swinging E. and W., only one was stopped (9.20).
All the bells were set ringing. " Two heavy books thrown
nearly three feet from a book-shelf standing against south
wall (inner) of dining-room. Ewer overturned in basin
standing against outer south wall in bedroom. Two cracks
in inner wall of house running N. and S. Two large panes
of plate-glass broken in windows (with stone mullions)
looking N.W. and S.W. respectively. Two stacks of chim-
neys shaken down, falling N. and W."