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SINGULAR SUBTERRANEAN COMMOTION NEAR 
AKRON, OHIO. 
BY E. W. CLAYPOLE. 
The hamlet of Sandy Hill about four miles south of Akron, O., 
was somewhat violently shaken during the night of February 9th. 
Several residents were awakened by a loud explosion which shook 
the houses as if an earthquake had occured. Plaster fell from the 
ceilings and the walls quivered. People sprang from their beds 
and rushed out to find the cause of the disturbance. Few in 
the immediate neighborhood slept any more that night. The 
district over which the shock was severe was not extensive and is 
thinly inhabited, but several houses stand close to the focus, 
and consequently felt its full force. At Mr. Snyder's several 
fissures in the ground were to be seen extending across the 
road. At Mr. Thornton's the family were awakened by the noise 
but the house did not sway. Mr. Shwartz who has lived all 
his life on the spot likened the noise to the report of a cannon. 
That this is not an exaggeration may be inferred from the fact 
that the explosion was heard by two persons in the house of Mr. 
John R. Buchtel, in Akron, more than five miles distant in a 
straight line, and that the register grating was heard to shake. 
The shock was double, the first happening about 9 o'clock on 
Thursday evening and the second between two and three 
o'clock on Friday morning. 
This is not the only event of the kind that has occurred at 
Sandy Hill. In 1882 and 1883 similar explosions took place, 
an account of which the writer received from the lips of resi- 
dents when visiting the spot in the summer of 1887. On that 
occasion the cracks in the srround radiated from a centre in a 
