Lille, June 11, The earthquakes felt in North France, Belgium and Holland this morning resulted in no deaths despite their intensity and the fears raised among the populations of hard-hit towns, In Stenworde, France, several people are ready to swear they saw their church tower sWay to the shaking of the quake.
In Valenciennes, the Town Hall clock pealed, out' irregularly ae it was shaken violently, Car-drivers stopped in the streets as they conic not control their machines, From other towns in the north come reports that in many cases old walls collapsed, tiles were dislodge} from roofs and other minor damage was caused, Here, the Observatory of Lille suffered the loss of much valuable apparatus as the frst shock shattered seismographic registers and other delicate machines, It seems that this town was actually the centre of one of the tremors, as a result of which the local Observatory could gather no information on the successive shocks, Panic in Brussels It was announced later that no phenomenon of today's proportions has been felt in this region since
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