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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. .311nhNn1,»|»I. 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 \ Ib’imMlnni l*nsti»mhtiT KiifiiKPM l« Liv 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 ” “i r 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 , uuiieiv.i.1. iiitaatllil- W) LUC tiCWN ll'illl I yilCB ntmidll | 11 I il/i iif)t tllV t'inrhra \ . 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 Sejptt tuber 23.