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VOL. XXVIII—NO. 213
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY Moil NINTH SEPTEMBER
1HS(5.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
1 J' v ?yi but owing to the earthquake no ] open space, where alone there Is
trains have been able to he dispatched from j hope of security, faint though it
i tun city. Telegraphic communion- 1 be. The tall buildings on either hand
tion is also cut off, ex- blot out the skies and stars, and seem to
lot
1h also
Th» ni» a 1 . eeptlng one wire of the Southern . overhang every foot of ground between
The City Shaken From Center to Circum- telegraph company, which is crowded j their shattered cornices and coping: the
ference. ! with anxious private messages. It is im- tops of the walls seem liued from both
I possible to depict the ruin and desolation sides to the center of the street. It seems
that prevails here. Not a single place of that a touch would now.send the shattered
Nignt.
I Picture |of Destruction. IlesoUtioii anil l>e-
•pair—tries of Distress ami Prayers to the
Almighty Heard ou Krery Hnnih-Iniposslhle to
Kstlmate the Number of heaths—Five Millions
of Property I,ost.
Charleston, a. C., September 1.—The
earthquake, such as has never before been
known in the history of this city, swept
over Charleston last night, shortly after
10 o’clock, causing more loss and injury to
business in the city, save a drug store, j masses, left standing, down unon the peo-
which is busy preparing prescriptions for j pie below, who look up to them andlshrink
the wounded, is open. It is impossible ! together ns the tremor of the earthquake
also to get any corect estimate of ilie kill-{ again passed under them and the mystorl-
ed and wounded, as bodies ous reverbrations swell and roll
constantly being disinterred ! along like some infernal drum
from debris of the wrecked houses. One ! beat summoning them to die and it presses
undertaker stated he had furnished eight 1 away,land again is experienced the blessed
coffins up to noon to-day. Many of the j feeling of deliverance from impending
", principally the , calamity, which, it may well be believed.
Nearly Kiery t'lty In t!■<
I'he People ill' AihruHtii
l.utly Dies uf Fright -
ami Northern Staton
Mouses.
Mouth Haiti) Shaken t’p.
KiiiIi tleuiornllaeil One
ous From Many Soutlieni
Fear lb I It
dead are lying unburied, , v*w«w... v ,y, nU u) U| m ...c^ uo uoihjuru
poorer classes of colored people, who will evokes ' a mute but earnest offering or
be buried by the county. There are not, mingled prayer and thanksgiving from
* j -- eiie Vf , ~“* ,, A.r w half a dozen tents in the city, and women ; every heart in the throng." Again, far
if l? 88 ri5? ^ i? i al1 ? children are experiencing, great I along the street and up from the alleys
S2SE2i 0f The c i ity privations in consequence. As 1 that lead into it on either side is heard that
Iffik mooDM encumbered | the night approaches most of ; chorus of wailing and lamentation which,
J™i e ? i b r icks and | the heads of families are trying to con- 1 though it had not ceased, was scarcely
tangled telegiaph and telephone wires, j struct tents out of bed sheets, spare awn- j noticed a moment before. It is a dreadful
™ -£i n 4- early p hour lt was i in £? or any other material that comes to 1 sound, the sound of
almost impossible to pass from one part of their hands. helpless, horror-stricken humanity,
the city to another.
The first shock was by far the most se
vere. Most of the people with their fam
ilies passed the night in the streets, which
even this morning ure crowded with peo
ple afraid to re-enter their homes. More
than sixty people were killed and
wounded, chieily colored. Among the
whites killed and fatally injured are M. J.
Lynch, Dr. R. Alexander Hammond and
Amsley Robson. Fires broke out in differ
ent parts of the city immediately after the
earthquake, and some arc still burning, but
there is no danger of it, spreading. There
is no way of leaving the city at present.
ANOTHER HORRIBLE PICTURE.
The principal business portion of tha
city was destroyed, and hundreds of per
sons were rendered homeless. Men were
frantic, and women were beseeching mercy
The sun ip about to set upon another ' old and young, strong and feeble alike
night of horror for poor Charleston. It is 1 where all are so feeble—calling for help
calculated that at least three-fourths of the ' from their fellow creatures, and raising
city will have to be entirely rebuilt if th
houses are to be inhabited.
SAD CITY BY THE SEA.
A Phi Picture of the Tcri'llili* t'nlniiiity Which Inis
ltcf'iillcn t'hiirlcKtnn—DctnlIs as Written for the
N"ivs noil fimrler, Imt which t'mniot Puhlith
Them—Will IEIkc Airntii.
Charleston. September 1.—The com
positors of tile News and Courier decline
to work to-night, expecting fresh shocks
of earthquake and the paper cannot, there
fore, issue to-morrow. The following ar
ticle was prepared for publication in the
their anguished voices In petition to
heaven for mercy, where no human aid
could avail. It is not a scene to be de
scribed by any mortal tongue or pen. It is
not a scene to be forgotten when it has
been witnessed, and when the wit
ness has shared all its dan
ger and felt all its agony. The first
shock 'occurred at 9:53, ns was indicated
this morning by the public clocks, the
bands on ul! of which had stopped at that
fateful hour as though to mark the time
for so many who had heard the preceding
hour pealed forth by St. Michael’s chimes
without a thought but of along and happy
life. The second shock, which was
thing h ire it in imp rul'ile to glvi
facts further th tn i oat the milliner of casu
alties lici ti. it yet. been iuet-rt tilled. Proba
bly front thirty to forty killed and over
one hundred Injured. The loss to property
will probably reach $S,000,003 or fHi,00(1,- Reports From the
0(V). Three fourths of the build
ings in the city will lmvo to
be rebuilt. Then' was very
little shipping In port and none of it was
■ Injured. Tnc ills'urhatuifis have total, all
affected the water in the harbor, although
it is evident that all the shocks came from
n southeasterly direction, and therefore !
from t he sea. There are no signs of a tidal
Wave as yet. ,
ANOTHER SHOOK. |
11:50 u. m.—Another shock has just J Columbia. September 1, -At 9:48 last
passed over the city, rather more severe night this city was visited by a terrible
than any since that of bust night at 9:55, j earthquake. The first two shocks wore
knocking down several houses. From the I fearful. Buildings swayed from side to
long, but imperfect, list of casualties the side, and the earth rose and full like
following are taken: Mrs. Williams j waves of the ocean. People rushed madly
jumped front the second story from their houses Into the streets. Home
of her residence at the corner of sprang from windows and were injured.
I Wentworth and Meeting streets, and in- The experience of those In buildings at the
lured her spine badly. Mrs. Robert M ir- ' time of the first shock was that of being
j tin, wife of a shoe merchant on Market ; racked, as if in a ship at sen. Many
street, was badly hurt. U. J. Lynch, while of the most substantial buildings
' in front of his son’s store, on Meeting ! were shaken to their foundations, and
| street, a stone of great weight fell upon walls cracked and sprung. Five minutes
him and broke one of his legs, if not both, after the first shock the second shock
and is supposed to he dying. I)r. R. Alex- came, and ten minutes later a third. Other
under,a young ohomlst.r.an outof his house shocks followed until 1:05 a. m., when the
and was crushed to death by a falling 1 eighth shock was felt, and this one lasted
chimney. Mr. Hammond, brother of ' * "
Isaac Hammond, is thought to be fatally
wounded. Both of his hips and legs arc
broken. He said that he did not know
whether or not he jumped from a third
story window on Broad street. Ho crawl
ed from the sidewalk to the middle of the
road. Ainsley Robinson was killed
by falling oil' a piazza. ,1.
C. R. Richardson, living at number 12
Friend street, was seriously injured In the
head by his house falling in upon Jilin
The damage last night was confined to the
jolting of chimneys and the breaking ot
| plaster In residences. Mrs. Bamuel Bow
ers, an old lady, died of fright. Many
ladies fainted and thousands of men
Earthquake Tuesday were completely unnerved. Citizens
remained in the streets all night.
It is stated that nothing like this has oc
curred since 1811, when There were shocks
extending from Charleston to the Missouri
river, where large tracts of land were
sunk. Our citizens passed a sleepless
night und there is still general
A in nun 1 apprehension, and the people are
preparing to camp out in the streets. At
the arsenal grounds the shocks wore vio
lent, doing great damage to the interior of
the residence of Major Riley and Captain
Orenlish. The residence ofCapt. Qrealish
is hardy standing.
Later.—A severe shock of earthquake
just felt here at 11:20, city time.
NORTH CAROLINA, I"""
Necessarily the only description that j away the writer started homeward to
an bo given of the disaster which bus be- i “ nc * scenes enacted on Broad street,
.. . - - J New *
. g mercy News and Courier, and is telegraphed al- ! but the faint and crisp echo of the first,
from the Almighty. The main station ] m0 st in the writer’s own words: was felt eight minutes later. As it passed,
house, city hall, Hibernian hull and many ,
other well known public buildings, cau
including St. Michael’s church, wefe \ rallen'ouVcity ‘consists'"in' anarratlon"of 1 around the News and Courier nIHue, re-'
irreparably damaged. Many people were experiences and observations of indi- peated at every step or the way. St.
seriously, if not fatally, injured. Broad [ yiduals, and the sullied being the same Michael’s steeple towered high and wlute
streev presented a spectacle of the utmost , and experiences of ail being nearly alike, : above the gloomy and seemingly uninjured
horror. hven women armed with tq Je storv told bv one careful observer station house. A massive brick building
hatchets fought valiantly to rescue the im- | may Avell stand for an hundred others with across the street had apparently lost its
prisoned unfortunates. Meeting street,
from Broad to Hazel, is a wreck
and is lined with unfortunates. To
add to the horror of the
scene, many fires broke out and were in
effectually fought by the fire department.
The night was hideous with the groans of
slight variations. Probably the best that
can lie had of t he character of the disturb
ance, therefore, may be obtained from
the narration of events and scenes of
Wednesday night ns they were presented
roof, which had fallen around it. A little
further on the echo of the
portico of the Hibernian hall,
a handsome building, in the Grecian
style, hud crashed to the ground, carrying
granite pillars
ItHilly Fllitlltl'lli'il tiut No lliuinuii- At, Ailii'vllle.
Asheville,iN. C., September 1.—A dis
tinct shock of earthquake was felt last
night at 9:45, preceded by a loud rumbling
noise. The motion was from southeast.
Duration of the first shock was a minute
and a half. Houses were violently shaken
and the inhabitants all lult them and went
into the streets. Another lighter shock
of for a minute and a lia\f. Al 4 o’clock this \' "f ^V Iv fS
ly morning the ninth shock canto, and at 9:30 i ,,,, lL r ®. '\ c .!i ! ....^i!..f j shocks
nnd 10:20 n. m. the city
WAS AGAIN MADE TO TREMBLE.
Very little sleep wns. had by any of the
i habitants of Columbia last night.
Negroes thought the end of the world
his bock and head. He crawled (Torn under
the debris and saw some men on the corner i i' 11
ofMazyeknml Queen streets whom lie sup- !
posed to have been killed, as he left them
lying on the sidewalk. He staggered as
tar on as the city hull and fell completely
exhausted.
Among those who were killed
subsequently, at intervales of fifteen
minutes. Much alarm was caused, but no
damage was done in town or surrounding
country. N ^ „• , . :
AT OTHER POINTS.
, v .- , Raleigh, N. C., September 1.—Tlie ex-
had come and they held prayer meetings citeraont here over the earthquake is un
on street corners. I nrecedeuted -nothing else is talked of.
Summerville, twenty-two miles from j There were shocks at 9:60, 10:(H and 10:30
Charleston, was nearly destroyed by an | p. m., and 12:55, 4:15 and 8:30 a. m. The
rile is that the
at 10 o’clock
_ ere violently
, , a minute nnd clocks were
this morning's train, including the tele- stopped. No damage was done,
company’s linemen, have not I spec’ ' "
bed Charleston.
THU LATEST.
There were sixteen distinct shocks from
earthquake last night and up to 5 o’clock
special from Durham says the earth
quake was felt there, and that the shock
lasted two seconds. It caused much
alarm but no damage.
A sjtecial from Fayetteville says four
tills morning. The first shock was at 9 distinct shocks were felt ther
, cnmmenc-
to a siugle person while engaged in ids ' down a pari of the massive granite pillars
.. A .. . usual duties in the second story of the i it. All the way up Moetiug street,
the dying, the screams of the vv.ounded ' Nows and Courier office. At the time of i which, in,respect of its general direction
nnd the prayers of the uninjured. It is im- , the first shock, the writer’s attention was ! und iniportahee, may he called the Broad-
bearing two men was passing the corner
of R .'id nnd King streets, when the gable I
end of a store on that corner fell and eov- \
ered the unfortunates with debris, one of
governor's mansion were wrecked. There
were ui number of eases of nervous pros
tration and doctors were in demand for
the frightened people. One lady was jo re-
northwesterly direction.
had returned into their houses to seconds the occurrence excited nolsurprisfe
get clothing and something to eat. . or comment; then by swifter degrees, or,
Approaches of the shock was heralded by p er h a ps, all at once, it is difficult to
the usual rumolmg sound resembling dts- i say which, the sound deepened in volume,
taut thunder, i pen it gradually approach- I and the tremor became more decided,
ed, the earth quivered and heaved and in i The ear caught the ratt’e of window
three seconds It had passed, the sound dv- : gashes, gas fixtures and other loose oh-
3ng out m tlie distance. This is the only j jects. Men in the office witli perhaps a
wave felt since 2:30 a. m. It was not de- I simultaneous flush of recollections nft.be
„ « I oeutible-tremor of the building, not more, . . , - . .
_ By that time mairked, however, than would be caused i course eaused the greatest alarm in that
many ot the people who had been out on | q v nfc'passage of a street car or dray along ! neighborhood, as elsewhere. At Marion
the public parks and open places all night, tlie street. For perhaps two or throe square, corresponding exactly with Union
i__j - - j 1 square, New York, a great crowd, had
collected, as even the edges of the wide
space embraced 111 it could not lie reached
by tlie nearest buildings in the event of
their fall. From this crowd, co uponed
of men, women and children of bot h races,
arose incessant palls, and cries, and lamen
tations, while over tha motley,half-dressed
throng was shed the
LURID light of the CONFLAGRATION,
which had "broke' out beyond the square
immediately after the first shock, had now
wholly enveloued several buildings in
flames. In three quarters of the town, at
the same time, similar large fires were ob
served under full headway, and the awful
significance of the earthquake may he most
fully appreciated, perhaps, when it is said
that, with these tremendous fires blazing
up all at once around them, and threaten
ing the city with total destruction, people
whom you met on the streets or
saw gathered together in groups
rreit tlie unfortunates with debris, one ol j matur £ y ,i t .i iv( ‘.,,.,| |, y the shock. Two
V was very late \vheoi I shf)cks ». ere felt this morning -one at 8:3(1
lmssihle 1 o li-r i l li!'' ni rsnns mimes nnd another an hour later. The tremor of
possible to h o. „ the poisons, names. Ujj e eur th made one feel while walking
v .' ,,'m Ak ' - i.^Wl 0 , like a man just off of a sen voyage, impa. -
NEW YORK.
Short of Smvrmt.
Smyrna, September 1.—Several
just I
ing a staggering gait.
simultaneous flash of recollections of tlie
uistuvliauce of the Friday before, glanced
hurriedly at each other and
sprang to their feel with startled ques
tions and answers.
WHAT IB THAT? EARTHQUAKE
were being shaken by the hand
of an immeasurable power with , „ _
intent to tear its joints asunder open places evidently did not give then
and scatter its stones and briek3 abroad as ! thought. No one watched the mealy
' i or pillars ofcloud rushing high into
Htruetive, all the destruction having been
done at 9:55 last night. The city is a com ■
plete wreck. St. Michael’s and St. Philip’s
churches, two of the most historic
churches in the city, are in ruins. So is ,
Hibernian Hall, the police station and j A nil then all was'bewilderment and con-
many other public buildings, and fully • f us i on . The long roll deepened and spread
two-thirds ol the residences in the city are : into an awful roar that seemed to per-
un in habitable, being wrecked either total- i yade at once the troubled earth and still air
ly or partially. It is impossible, at this i above and around. The tremor was now a
time, to give a correct estimate of the i rude, rapid quiver that agitated the whole
casualties. It is expected that between lofty, strong walled building as though it
fifty and one hundred persons have been 1 * * • ’ v
killed, and several hundred wounded.
At the time of the first shock fires broke
ont in live different places in the city.
About twenty houses were destroyed by ! tt tree easts its ripened fruit before the i ^ ames (
fire. Scarcely 100 houses in the city are ; breath of a gale. There was no intermis- , the atili nignt air, ah wei-« roo nr
occupied at this tirne, the people being i ^lon in the vibration of the mighty subter- i listening with strained senses f
qil encamped in open places. All the i ran can engine. From first to last it was a I dreaded recurrence of that horrible
stores are closed, and a scarcity of provis- ; continuous jar, only adding force at every 1 or £froan of the power under tli
ions is feared, not from want of provisions, : moment, and as it approncnerluiul reached
but because no one can be got to reach the j the climax of its manifestation it seemed
stores to sell them. j for a few terrible seconds’ that no work of
human hands could possibly survive. The
fioors were heaving under foot, and the
surrounding wails and partitions visibly
swayed to and fro. The crash of falling
masses of ^tone, brick unci mortar wns over
heard.and without a terrible roar filled the
ears .and seemed to fill the mind and
heart; a dazing perception bewildering
thought, and but for the few panting
breaths, or while you held your breath in
the News and Courier, jumped from a win
dow of the composing room into a wide
alley. When the first shock came two | ^ ,.|.
gentlemen who were near the Pavillion . A ‘ - .
hottil heard piercing cries for help. They I Aitgusta, ua.,, Septumc>er 1. A sp^m- 'morning. The swaying of li
went down Hazel street in the direction of | telegram to the Chroiiielo says hist night nee(iIeH ( ,. r , |„, j B teetion of
the erica and found a white man and a wo- l j VHH a night of teiiot 1.1 Beaufort. Hcven ,. er q s wa} . vcry K reatat 7 o’e,
man half buried in the ruins of a large j teen shocks of cartlitiuake occurred during
building. They were extricated and sent ^'e night. At 9:50 last night tlie town
to the hospital. i was thrown into a state of terror and ex -
As the night wore on soaic’i for tlie dead t eitement by a general shaking of house!,
and wounded continued. Stretchers were | over town, lops of chimneys wore
l.nprovlseil out of shutters, doors and loose i sliaken.eloeks stopped, niirrors and pictures
I planks, and the dead and wounded were i w*: 1 ’ 0 10,11 trielr fastenings, and
conveyed to an open spire. Washington , things were siiitken up generally. 11ns
: park was speedily filled with impromptu , loilovved by other shocks at regular
l stretchers, on which tlio dead and wound- | uiterva.s ol five minutes till eleven hml
ed were placed, occurred, when all wi
well
defined shocks' of earthquake were felt
here between 10 and 12 o’clock last night.
No damage was done.
t Kiil-iicI in Sturm.
Rochester, N. V., September 1.—A
magnetic storm has been raging all the
The swaying of heavy magnetic
of the earth cur
ry great at 7 o’clock this morn-
At I beginning of the observations
a heavy n die nine inches long swung an
inch and half to the west of the magnetic
meridian at intervals. Needles two and a
half feet In ig were deileeted five inches to
ward the west.
i'loriilii.
Jackson .'U.i.U, Sept. 1.—'Tlie earthquake
ON THE RAILROADS.
t Ti'i
> I Ills * 1 1 • l’’J — Dill UiUVWll llll'' ■ .. i j
when all was quiet until 1:10. , shock last night was quite severe here, and
r more slight shocks followed was felt as fat south as Bartow. It com-
■r in quick succession. Again menced at '1:27 snn time and lasted about
when four
each other in quick succession. Agai
at 4.40 this morning another
severe shock occurred. Everybody rushed
into the streets at the first shock and there
remained all night. Few if any slept.
lolled and thou::
1 tllel":
the
rowl
and
new
Tliu Truck Ciniml With Water
,.nti'lii*r*K stoi'y.
New York, September 1.—The point Negro church beils \v
from which the railroad lending into anas of colored peuplo
Charleston is reported submerged is itave-
ncls, a pluce on the Savannah and Charles
ton railroad about eighteen miles distant I
lrom the city. It is probable that the part
of the track under water lias been covered
by a heavy rise in the river.
■id remained in prayer all night.
SAVANNAH BADLY SCARED.
I III,' Is
the city is wraffed in gloom
and the business is entirely suspended
The people generally remain in the streets,
in tents and under th - improvised shelters
and .will camp out to-night, fearing an
other shock. The gas works are injured
and probably the city will be without
light to-gight. St. Michael's church is shat
tered and the steeple will come down;
likewise the steeple of SI. Phil
lips; steeple of the Unitarian
church has fallen. The porticos of the
Hibdrnian hall and tlie mein station house
are demolished. There, is muol) injury to
mansions on the east and south battery.
The portico of the Ravenal mans
dreadful anticipation of immediate and
cruel death, you felt that life was already
past, and waited for tiie end as a vielini
with his head on the block awaits tlie fall
of the uplifted ax. It is not given to many
men to
under the hind, to give t,l
terrors, though it had thronged his own
home and many homes in the doomed
city.
the crowds poured in
from every direction to the square jest
described, as though it had been indeed a
charmed circle and life depended on pa
ing within its grassy bound. Street cr.:
carriages and other vehicles were ran,., d
in lines, surrounding the square, while tnc
horses stood stock still, with turned heads,
as though sniffing the ground in
anxious inquiry. Crowds of people
were loud and unceasing in tli i,
declarations of alarm in the singing o,'
hymns and in fervent appeals for God’s
mercy, in which God’s mercy knows who
heard them arising in tlie night and in th.
tivtind
humbly and sincerely joined. Danger
brings all of us to a level of the lowest.
There were no distinctions of place or
power, pride or caste, in the assemblages
that were gathered together in (.'Imrl
down. Hardly a house,in the city escaped look in the face of the destroyer I hour >d His wondrous might
injury, and many are so shaken and
cracked that a hard blow would bring
them to the ground.
ON THE ISLAND.
The shock was severe at Summerville
and Mount Pleasant, and Sullivan’s island,
but no loss of life is reported there, fis
sures in the earth are noticed from which
fine sand apparently from a great depth
exudes. A sulphurous smell is very no
ticeable.
CRAZED WITH FRIOHT.
and yet. live, but it is little to say that the
group of strong men who shunned the
experience above faintly described will
carry with them the recollection of that
supreme moment to their dying day. None _
expected to escape. A sudden rush was . on Tuesday night. It was a curious sp..
simultaneously made to endeavor to ob- tacle to look back upon. It 18 a .*7°,
tain open air and flee to a place of safety, °Jje to remembiir lor while a.nl h arx
but before the door was reached all reeled | alike. There were instances ot iinsi'ltish
together to the tottering wall and stopped, devotion, of kind ami lov ng iieL.-: between
feeling that hope was vain; that it was master and servant, mistress and maul in
only a question of death in the building or j the presence of common ill undo! thrt
The Western Union
tnington sends the
rain dispatcher of
Coast line, ju.it ,c
their section muster,
miles from Charleston,
shock wrecked the hridgi
says a negro from four
Charleston reported that
down and the ground uj
ing the' tracks, and
era! places the
cracked and boil in:
coming from it. Tins re j
the source it does, must be tak
grain of allowance. A special on
been started to bring any reports a
HJAKTH CAVING IN.
Revenklh, S. C\, September 1.
road is under water in some places
here and Charleston. Twonty-fi
north of hero tlie earth has eav
several places.
at
Allan
stationed’ twelve
reports that tlie
a near ther*, and
miles north of
tan
I thlslKMl h> I
Wave Is Llifltl House
Savannah, UUi., Krptciul
Three di itind shocks have
since midnight. Tin; hid, <
a. m. AJ1 the sh(>cl< s v vt
tion aiwl not \iolent. r I'he
greatly excited, and a
streets and squares on
telegraph and m-wspaner o
Islaud, a;
1. river, tl
lloiu’ll A Tidiil
L A a; m.
•n felt hei
lit 3
id
Tv
of the Si
light lion,
island leh
j oei urre
re of short dn
10 P »ple aro di ■
sitting out in (h
wding around th:
o> flees.
the moulli
irfc, i
r/ailable.
The rail*
between
re 1 dies
ed in in
iate oi’ terror,
atiun with !!.«■
and all Hie ini
fighlcind
ises in the
•yed. People on the
is city that they arc
M.re »*:m be no coJii-
, lain! ind until day-
hitnnts are ossein-
island was swept
md peu
thirty seconds.
> 1 rgl n)i(,
, IjYNCHBuug, Sopl. 1.—Specials to the
Advance from throughout southwestern
! Virginia a .d eastern Tennessee report
severe shocks of earthquake lusting from
three tq fi e minutes about 10 p. in. last
night.
AT ALEXANDRIA.
Alkxandiua, Va., September 1.—Tlie
earthquake shock here last night was very
severe, causing tin; people to run into the
streets in their night clothes. (fous-.v*
shook violently, clocks were stopped arid
great consternation created.
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Mom 1.hj, Ala., September 1.-—A11 regu
lator clocks and town time pieces, of Co
lumbus, Miss., were stopped last night by
tlie earthquake and the authorities tele
graphed Mobile this morning for the time
of day.
YOU MUST PUT ME 0UT. ,f
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Plain
Savannah, Ga., September 1.—Captain
onvrin
\ ill.
Raleigh, N. 0., 8c] item her 1. -Upon
hearing of the disaster at Charleston and
Columbia, Gov. A. M. .Scales, of this state,
at onceltelegraphed Gov. Shepherd: “We
have news of a terrible calamity in your
by the tidal wave in August, 18S1,
1 pie fear a similar disaster now.
AT TYMKK ISLAND
tlie shock whs more severely felt than in
tlcM iiy. i*.: .pi*; on the island rushed from George W. Lamar, who hits been appoint*
^‘/ :, .r houses to the beach. Oscillation last- ed postmaster of this city, called on Post-
cd lor siiveral nunu.cu, l ue lantern lenses master Wilson, 'fWio is now in the office,
in the light house were broken and the yesterday, and demanded the ofHce. Mr.
machinery of the lamp was disarranged. |,amarsai(l: “I have orders hereto re-
1 he keeper hurried up town, and as soon ceivc the papers and property belonging
as possible arranged a temporary light, to the office, for which I give you these re-
whieh will have to answer until the ight 1 ceipts. 1 demand the office, and I shall
house supply-ship reaches here. People on act as postmaster of Savannah.”
the beach ran hither and thither, ^uot j ‘‘ 1 shall stay in until put out,” responded
LnAuFiD M 1 i I* nvli'in • Ulliy <1 UULnWUll 'J l ucam 1,1 I X , . . | . .
The first shock of earthquake was felt j without—to be buried by the sinking roof j enedrum that showed as not hing
state. How can we kelp you? The people knowing where to and fearing that I Col. Wilson, and he added, “ I’refuse to ac-
vui gmuiy come to yout rciici. every moment a tidal wave would sweep 1 rent the receipts ”
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the toppling walls. The could show hovt- strong is the
Wilmington, N. C., September 1.—A
approaching last night at 9:50, and before ' or crushed by -.... — , ., , ... , .
the people could realize what the trouble j uproar slowly died away in the seeming , , b,ntl 1 s our white people and our
was they foundl themselves being thrown I distance, the earth was still, and oh! the , “lack people together t
around and their houses falling down on j ),Jessed relief of that stillness. But how I the lesson ot tlie Great
and this
dread visitor
meeting of citizens was held'here to-.,ight j 1 ter!’’said Cal Sar^’tnd^ ‘“w
and a committee ol rebel appointed to go the beach swayed to and fro and shook as 1 V ou bv courtesy onlv’ a visitor in this
to Chaileston with inen amt means to aid if they would fall to peices. A telephone ! office.^ y y 13
the earthquake sufferers. __ message to the News from Tybee station | “ I do not yield my rights. You must
You must
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Atlani a, September 1. Mayor llillyer at 4 o’clock this morning stated that the ! put me out,”^vos (he reiSy. “ Y
as issued a call fora meeting of citizens ’ people were still gathered on the beach. A use force stroncer than I am ”
f Atlanta lo aid the suffering Charles- relief train Ills been despatched to i c'ol WlEftRl holds the office
miaiis. no meeting will he he d to- Charleston from this city torender assist- | he has done nothing wrong and ti
IOITOW morilillg. liusiness and social eon- n.npn Lt HiiffVar<*r« hiiyI lu.imir Hip ■ ,L ..4 i .1 H..4- i.:.
fa groups offering up prayers. Thfe first I the air was filled to the heighth of the filled with fallen chimneys
shock was followed immediately by an- houses with a whitish cloud of dry, stifling and fragments of the walls, \\ hile tn
other though of less effect, but renewing | ,] us t from lime and mortar and shattered walls that were left standing \\e,
the screams and shrieks and from the time j , naS onry, which falling upon the pavement , rent asunder, in ninny i>l
of beginning to daylight shocks were felt : all d stone roadway had been reduced
at intervals of half an hour, but ! to powder. Through ithis cloud, dense
h
of
toni
morrow morning. Business and social coil
neetion between Atlanta and Charleston is
very close, and universal Sympathy is ex
pressed here.
ance to tlie sufferers and repair tlie
railroads.
Savannah, September 1. Fight shocks
of earthquake were felt here to day.
He says
nothing wrong and the presi
dent has no authority to remove him. Both
parties have lawyers, and further develop
ments are expected later to day.
THE FOURTH ALABAMA'
far as could tie ascertained during
night fifteen to twenty were killed und a
much greater number wounded in all forts
of ways. The loss of human life wil be
large and it will take duys to get at the ac
curate number. The shocks equally as
severe were felt at a distance of thirty-fir e
miles and have done inestimable damage
to railroad and telegraph properties.
Charleston is now entirely isolated xrom
the outside world.
LITERALLY IN RUINS.
Not even during General Gilmore s bom
bardment of this city has there been such
a deplorable state of affairs here. I he
is literally in ruins nnd the people are av-
ing in open squares cud in pul I;.': pa,
There it a great ruth to the depc.- to 3'--
from top to bottom, and wer,
badly shattered in every instance.
Women and children roused from sleep or
interrupted in their evening pursuits In-
the sound of ruin being effected above and
around them rushed into the streets ami
huddled together awaiting the end, whut-
- ever it might be. Invalids were brought
of men and women, 1 out on mattresses and deposited on the
’ roadway. No thought was given to the
treasures left behind in the effort to save
the peculiar treasure of
itself, suddenly become so precious in ill,
eyes of all, invalid women and robust men
alike. Until Jong after midnight the
streets were filled with fugitives in -ight
of their homes. Through the long hours
that followed, few were the eyes, even cf
childhood, that were closed in sleep.
Charleston was full of those wlm
watched for morning, and neve
in a city in any land did tlie first
of half — . - ...
each succeeding one being less as a fog, gas lights flickered dimly, shed
distinct Three or four fires started in ns ding but little light, so that you stumbled
many sections with the first shock, and the- 1 a t every step over piles of brick,.or became
city wus soon illuminated with flames, thus entangled in lines of telegraph wires that
leading all to believe that what was left by depended in every direction from their
the earthquake would be devoured by (ire. ; broken supports, ' —
However the fire department was so well , hurrying for:
divided and handled that the fires were barehedded, partially dressed, some almost
gotten under control by daylight. From nU de, and many of whom were crazed with _ eoullar treasure of lif
fifteen to twenty residences and stores ; f ear or excitement. Here a woman is the _ pixunai treasure ol lu
were consumed.' [ supported, half fainting, m the arms ot
I oss BY firf, and EARTHQUAKE her liusb«nd, who vainly tries to sooth her
b, —t. s“'.,wsyssKss
m u» j S ss;ti,h r K-.s:r,; i s,5"^
’tretched limbs, and the crowd passes
her by for the time, not pausing
to see" whether she be alive or dead,
sudden light flares through
I lie Deadlock in Hie Con,
broken—-Sj nijHilliy to
tdininisfmlion Kndor
rcshioiml Ci
(Ilill'ICHfoil
•il. Me.
At Mueoii.
Macon, September i.—-Slight shocks!
were felt here at 12 o’clock last night, and
4:20 this morning. No damage to property
of any consequence has been reported here :
or in towns contiguous to Macon.
urth
Selma, Ala., Sept. 1. The J
gre8sional district convention has be
session here two days. There were five
candidates before the convention to-day.
. 11 but one lias been withdrawn at one
time or another. The deadlock can’t he
broken. The convention adjourned to
night till to-morrow, after taking Hi? bal
lots. In the midst of one of the most heated
debates of the convention intelligence of
the earthquake disaster at Charleston w
received. The chairman, amid
FROM AUGUSTA.
iveMfeSee iSSd thetefeirS The^eim ' the shocks, snehas falling of chimneys',
vention rose to its fceUand a mint «« tln * °^'alls, smashing of crockery,
Fuels From Forlsou.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.
Foktson, Ga.. September 1.—The mem
bers of Shiloh Methodist church, one of
the Double churches, have had a glorious
revival meeting. The doors of the Meth
odist and Baptist churches were both
thrown open there last Sunday night for
the reception of members. I learn that
there have been twenty-five accessions to
Suvoivl) shaikon I p Kuilroitd twlricnfs. Shiloh since the meeting began, and that
Augusta, September 1. Two slight the church was never more united in
shocks of earthquake were felt this morn- j brotherly love and Christian fellowship,
ing at 7:59 and 9:20, city time. The excite- j . There is a new milker now at the North-
ment has somewhat subsided. A number I s jd0 dairy farm. The little lady is about
of houses have been reported to the tire , three days old, and her father is the hap-
wardens as in danger, and from nil por- **’* 41
tions of the city and surrounding neigh
borhood come reports of small damage by
piestman in three counties.
window overlooking the street. It becomes gray shades that mark the approach of
momentarily brighter and the cry of fire re
sounds from* the multitude. A rush is made
towards the spot; a man is seen doubled
up and helpless against the wall. But at
this moment, somewhere out at sea, over
head, deep in the ground is heard again a
low ominous roii which is already too well
known to be mistaken. It grows louder
and tearer, like the - rowl of a wild beast
approaching his prey, and -ill is forgotten.
, in the ireuzied rush for
dawn appear so beautiful and welconv
to the eye as they appeared to thousand >
of the people who saw them this morning
from tnc midst of countless wrecked bonu s
in our thrice scourged but still penitent,
still brave, still hopeful, still beautiful «*it\
by tiie sea.
Sum mine If Ip.
ChaRLKr-TON. September
the demoralized condition
of the gospel offered
prayer for tlie suffering. A
resolution of sympathy was adopted and
telegraphed to the mayor of Charleston.
The convention udojiO d a resolution eulo
gizing President Cleveland and his admin-
Lstiation, one in fa‘/or of tariff for revenue
only, one denouncing the Blair bill and
o;.c unqualifiedly in favor of Morrison’s
resolution.
etc.
FriiptloiiK Iii Mnltn.
Malta, September 1.—The captain of a
steamer just arrived here reports that on
August 30 when his ship was fourteen
miles to the north of the Island of Galita,
off Tunis, in the Mediterranean, he no-
litch at 11,u se creek, fou^r I tic 9 d ^attbe highest {leak on the eastera
the city, am! fireman killed. °‘Vl of 1 “ slate „.°C?k
H,i
llrut.
—Owing to
of every-
RoCKAU'av Beach, Scntetiibei
Ion beat Courtney 1 oy ten lengths.
In a railway accident at Bangley Pond,
ten miles from Augusta, a fireman was
killed. Another South Carolina railway
train is ii
miles (von
The latter is nlstoek train and is now com
pletely under water, '[’he stock have es
caped with the exception ot four horses.
Shocks broke dams at Bangley and Bath,
South ( arolinu, and railroad tracks are
washed away.
Augusta September I.—Another shock
was :uli here at 5 t, c>oek this evening,
causing the people to rush into the st.-etts.
tion, ejecting smoke
mountain.
from a crater-like
Anotlicr Caini iiltoii Caltail.
Alexandria, Va., September 1.—The
district congressional executive committee
met here to-day and called another con
vention to meet at Culpepper Court House
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