BROOKLYN DAILY STANDARD UNION - MAY 14, 1906 LONG ISLANDERS SURE THEY FELT TWO EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS The sleep of the residents of that section of Long Island lying between Farmingdale and Riverhead was broken this morning by what they claim was an earthquake. The shock was felt in Farmingdale, Pine Law, Wyandanch, Deer Park, Brentwood, Central Islip, Ronkonkoma, Yaphank, Medford, Manyor and all the small villages to Riverhead, about #:45 o'clock this morning. The shocks were of about one minute's duration and about two minutes apart, there being two shock. The first disturbance was more violent than the second and just strong enough to rock the houses. It made the bric-a-brac on mantelpieces do a war dance in most of the houses. The shock was first noticed by Alexander G. SULLIVAN, of Farmingdale, at a quarter to four. He though at first the wind was making the house shake and after the second shock he though burglars had broken into the house, so he grabbed a gun and started to investigate. He found some of his neighbors were also hunting for the cause of the disturbance and not finding any they came to the conclusion there had been an earthquake. A lawyer name TABOR, living in Brentwood and the conduction of the Riverhead Express also say they had a similar experience of a shock, about this time. There are several large institutions in these towns and it is said that the inmates were very much alarmed. Possibly they thought of San Francisco. There was an explosion in a cartridge factory in Bridgeport, Conn., early this morning, the shock of which was felt for a distance of twenty miles, which would make it possible that the Long Island earthquake was caused by this. But the Long Islanders say the quake was felt half an hour before the explosion. SEVERE AT EASTPORT The disturbance seemed to be especially severe at Eastport, where only ten seconds elapsed between the two shocks. Many of the inhabitants of Eastport were thrown from their beds, and the houses rocked from side to side. The shock was felt at Port Jefferson on the north shore of the Island. Furniture in the houses was moved out of place and a large plate glass window in the store of P. A. RAYNOR was broken. At Northport occupants of houses were so frightened that many ran into the streets. Transcribed for the Brooklyn Page by Carol Granville http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Bklyn.Info.Page.html