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jJ^ffiSATE CHARLESTON
nfflSS VISITED BY OUB OWN
1HB bu ' c0BB eSPONDKNT.
... mill* own w »y How the F »-
T<> r|( . nnff X/ioks with her hhat-
Dl0 °‘e«l Bulldtu** and Streets
* Hlled with Debris.
IH K rF.OPLK SLEETING IN TENTS.
... Apconnt of th. T>ami.c«* Bone
I K.rtkqnsti^ »ml b«w thr P»o-
W le of CIli.rlMton Bonk Upon
Their Great Bo.s.
CgjBuorros. S. C., Septembers.—"Horn,
Ibis ciqar an( ^ 8 ' 1 ^ere In that rocker
* d I’ll irive yon n pretty accurate idea of
rf , n |t of the earthquake here Tuesday
C ‘^ clock of the great tower of famous
st Michael's stands still, with tbo hands
II ’Stine exactly at five and a half minutes
^9o’clock, which tells exactly the moment
pjtbc worst shook beneath the Immense
. wer The building is separated several
inches, and the stmetnre is a min. It was
jMI1 t Jjjo centre of the most violent force.
Cb.tlenton is a mined city. It is not exag-
deration to say that two-thirds of the brick
bandies*,which constitute two-thirds of the
city, will bavejto be pulled down. Only
(lr ; or four smaller brick buildings were
absolutely destroyed, shaken down to the
w , foundation, but as many as twenty
..lory buildings have the wholo frame
senbe the camp accurately in detail would
seem ukeexaggeration. .Negroes and whites
lie downside by side in some instances,
sharing the same bit of tent.
As a general thing tho negroes keep to
themselves, but there is no earthly dis
position to draw the line of class, race or
color.
In Washington Square lies very low a
beautiful young mother of but three dnys—
THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH s TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1886.—TWELVE PAGES.
bleeps soundly on the ground with the
stars keeping eternal watch.
This dispatch is written in a building
without any roof and two taller houses on
either side shattered and reedy to topple at
the elighest jar. I have six inches of tho
Pavillion Hotel proprietor’s mattress on
Courtenay Place, where I am going now to
sleep.
- -WU..JS - Telegraphic communication has been very
t le day before the earthquake the baby was bad all day, and nfter 9 o’clock to-night,
orn, the next day came the disaster; and when the Southern got two wires and the
t e young mother and her one-day-old in- Western Union three or four, there were
aut were carried to the square and laid 1, COO private messages yet awaiting to be
on a mattress on the ground, and sent. This has prevented many newspapers
a rude gnble-end tent stretched on stick? from getting any specials,
four feet high keeps out the cool September Opinions differ us to whether or not there
night air. But the shock has already dis-1 was a slight shock hero at noon to-day.
turbed the mother’s nervous system, and I Very few maintain vigorously that they
little hopes are entertained of her recovery, distinctly felt a tremor of the earth. Good
Marion Square, the campus of the Cadets, ni 6 ht - Haydn.
covers about four acres. It presents a | THE FIH^T BULLETIN.
weird scene to-night Font thousand Tho work of CL.riog
people are scronged together there. Along Through the Debn, H, gnu.
every street from 8 to 10 o'clock, could be I Chaulestos, 8. 0., September 2 —The
seen streams of people carrying bianketa * llBt earthquake shock was experienced
pillows and overcoats to make their bed on *?** a > 11 ^ la8t ni 8 h *: "jP' 8 "Ncli time
tha oarnnna - , uea there have been no vibrations. The peo-
pus for the night, the little chil-1 pie ore just beginning to pick up enough
dren toddling at their mother’s heels, their courage to come out Efforts are being
father in the lead with the bedding. made to clear paths through tho streets for
m ^ . , the passage of vehicles and pedestrians,
ine poorer classes, who depend on doily and the city once more begins to show
labor for a livelihood, are having aome de-1 of life. For two long days and
privations, but there is no want of food I .°* k° rrnr i , women and
anywhere children have been camping out in parks
* I and squares. The earthquake has swept
I saw a wagon load of small one and two | over tno city like a besom of destruction,
pound blocks ot ice drive up to Washington I aE< * Charleston is laid down in dust It is
Square thin evening for free dtatribution. i“ l ’ 08fi f ibl ,-, t0 gi , v0 any ? one S, t estimato ot
_ G . , , ’ , loss of life and property. For two days
I ho beptember sun, and the excitement, I and nights tho people have done nothing
and tho nervous unrest had worn the peo- hut huddle on tne squares. Small detached
pie into slow fever. They surrounded tho relie * P art jes are going to dig out the dead
knocked right out. On East Biy street, i wagon and almost fought, uoiui auger, but. fijgt externalized^effort^geill im
near Chslmere, I paw a three-story real- largely os if famished, to get tho ico. Soon, facts U now being made. A list of the dead,
jtnee with the entire front, from gable roef however, all were supplied, and the ice was I recognized and reported this morning at
i. the very pavement, out; tho rooms looked I crushed and devoured just so: not a fifth of tlli8 *i m , 8 ' 11 ", foota n P 10 16 . an<l
to tne j i .... .. . , . . J ’ 1 search haa odIv commenced. Tho list ot
like those represented in honses on the it was pnt into water. wounded will go into tho hundreds.
ltwf . There were the hrlo-a-brao on the There absolutely seems to be no thought Abont seven-eighths of the honses and pub-
mantel, l’ttle pictures on the well, the of the future. Every one is looking for *'° buildings in the city are either damaged
wWD g chair drawn to nta i hlo and smashed another shock. It will take fully a week “ta
limp on the floor. Soveral houses present- for tho people to recover fall self-conscious- feared they will have to be takendown.
t\ similar plotnros. On King, East Bay, ness. The waves, from 9:55Tuesday night, have
Meeting and Broad streets, two-thirds Even where there nre one-story frame } ,een C0 “* D g "bout onco overy five or six
t[ the houses are badly buildings in the heart of the city, tho peo- , anlhop^^m^eStartata^UtaTthe 6
vrecked. Tbo top stones, pie are too frightened to sleep indoors. horror is about over,
to use a lUberntanism, are on the pave- I looked in ft side street a half hour ago. I . —-—-
meats. Tbo gutters and sides of theso Negroes and poor whito people occupy the 1 A 0r 1X11:1
itreets sre piled with roofs and bricks. AI little frame shanties. All were on the pave-1 Thirty-three Killed end Abont One nun
few instances in detail will suffice to give ment, some sat in chairs, others lay on t,re<l Wonnded—The Namee.
•n 'de* of tho force of the shock: benches, and some sat on tho curbs with ^2juS5°of deaths'is tbbEy thre^The
Hibernian Hall, on Meeting street, was a their heads in the Itps of those in tho choirs, wonnded will probably number one h tn-
iplendid building before it was ruined, Where they were awake hushed voices tell- drod. Business is still suspended, the
with pillars of brick nearly three feet in ingot the awful calamity could be heard, whoto attention of the people being.given to
di,meter. The pillars were snapped off in Each one was relating his experience. den^s^fe* 0 ' Brick^e^na^ advaS“d
the middle, and tho violenoe of the fall Four-fifths of the city seemed to have their rates to six dollars per day.
sheltered them to the top in halves to been awnfce when the shook that did the The city council will probably
leperate the bricks, and tearing down a damage was felt. All speak of the awful I meet to-morrow to provide measures for
meeeive iron fenco that stood on the front, dread that overtook them. Certainly few [lido"are keWon'ftU sidiTfo^as”istanoo
and pulling the iron gate pillars from their over expected to see anothor day. The offered to Charleston, of which tho suffer-
stone foundation. The front wall is left, | dread of that nwfal moment has shattered | ing peoplewjll gladlyayail themselves,
a harp M|p|Rni|m)^n^n^^nmiR^mntfiiiM|mgfiMNMm|||(MHlMmB|HHp
background glaring out in tho fall I premature births and stillbirths aro re-1 “ijo p.^mTand *5 a. m. AiTweriT’light’
moon as mute as “Tars’s harp.” I ported. Confidence is gradually returning, but
ienrae the street, nearly a square away, is Except in tho centre, where the moat mQ ch apprehension is still felt
tho Parillion Hotel. Its corner, facing two damage was done, the city does not give , , ,, . ...
iticeta, is shattered, land neither guests, any astounding evidence of the fadibte 1 whotlre killed by'th?Sarthqwk.’Vwhll
■te.trd or proprietor will sleep in it shock. Itji a close inspection of tho 1 have since diod from their injuries:
1 .tone structure known familiarly ns tho I honses seggod In the middle that tells tho I White—Peter Powers, Mrs. C. Barhor,
Proof building’’ has it, top story observer how great has been the daai«p. ^2 1MM&
WKied, and tho masslvo stones that weto Only in ono placo did I observe that tho L , nchi Annle Tarek, Mrs. ltachel Ahrens,
anted and cemented as ooping, lie crashed splendid Belgian block pavement had been Goldie Ahrens.
os the pavement. erupted. Colored—Thomas Wilson, Wm. Dean,
The yawning gaps in the third stoiy The effect on the earth by tho shock ’can
an to look aghast at tho broken pile of better bo seen outside tho city and in a fow MarJ# Barnwell. Maria Finckney, James
lock beneath. I unpaved baak yards, whero fissures in tho I Brown, Angelic Davids, Eugeni* Roberts,
St Phillip's Episcopal Church spire la earth may bo seen. Robert Roifoff, Grace Fleming, Rasa Mar
riddled with flasures, and a third of the I came here this morning from Savannah, ° Sarah Middleton*
ttry highest part, whero there wr* a look- from Ravcncl*, twenty-fivo milea nouth of Hebccca Ward,
out, is torn away. A ropo around tho here, to thia city. The evidonoea'are nnm-1 Thero may be a fow more,
front warns all of tho danger. Certainly erons of the violence of tho shock. Tho
its whole front it not the entire building entire twenty-five miles present long crocks
will have to be replacod. and some largo fissures in tho earth.
Not twenty brick houses in tho centre of Tho sand belched forth was of the
the ci.y escaped soriona cracking.
thrown down, leaving tho attio tl>or ex
posed, and several buildings on the south
side of the si reet have been similarly treated.
West of King street the most serious
damage is to the episcopal residence. Tne
gable end has been thrown down, tbo wall
falling on the roof of the spacious porch
and crushing it in. The now and hand-
some residence of Capt. .T. W. Wagoner,
and thut of Arthur Barnwell, immediately
opposite, do not appear to have been
seriously damaged. The second lloor
veranda of Capt. Wagoner’s house
dark
under the
he shock that
train took in the
seen intluence
dismantled tuo road. It is
that the earth suddenly gave way, and that
the engine first plunged down a t*»!np'>n.ry
declivity. It was then raised on the top of
the Hucceding terrestrial undulation, and,
having reached the top t f the wave, a sud
den swerving of the torce to tho right and
left hurled the ill-fated train down tho em
bankment.
How it was dono was plainly indicated.
In many pl-ices along tho track of the South
the west side has been I Carolina and Northeastern railroads, and
crushed in, but beyond this the building for spaces of several hundred yards it
shows no sign of the terrible shaking of width, the drendful energy of the earth
Tuesday night. I quake was expended io|two|particular ways.
What a sceno of desolation tho fashion-1 First, there were intervals of a hundred or
ablo boulevard of Charleston presents! irore yards in which the tr«ck had
Commencing at Broad street, one passes the appearance of having been alternately
through a block of burnod houses. The I raised and depressed like a lino of waves
fire, starting at No. 118, the third building frozen in their last position. The second
from the corner of Broad street, on the I irdication was where tho force had oscillat-
east side, consumed the entire row of led from east to west, bending tho rails in
buildings as far north as Tally’s old reverse curves, most ot them taking
stand, next to tho Quakers* graveyard. I the shape of a single and
Tho few honses left on that side of the others of a double letter “S,”
street are more or less shattered and gut-1 placed longitudinally. These latter accidents
ted. The few Houses on the west side of occurred almost invariably at trestles and
the street, north of Broad street, have not culverts. There were no less than five of
escaped the general fate, although the dAm- them between the seven mile junction and
age is not as great as in other portions of Jedburg. In other places the track had
the street * tho appearance of being kink-
The immense vacant lot on tho west side od for miles, but always in
•>£ the atroet is ^occupied by families who these coses in the direction of the rails,
lived in the burnt houses, and who are the train, at tho time of the earthquake,
camped ont on the sward, with a fow house- was running along at tho usual speed, ami
hold effects saved from the flames. I when about a mile south of Jeabnrg, it
From Qneen street to Ilorlback’s alley I • ncounteied a terrible experience. It was
almost every honso is shattered, tops of the freighted with hundreds of excnrs : onists re
walls near the roof being thrown down. I turning from the mountains. They were all
The large building at the corner of Clif-1 gay and happy,laughingand talking, when all
f ord and King streets, formerly Silcox’s far-1 of a sadden, in the language of ouu ul tho
niture store, has, to all outward appear-1 • xcursionists, “tho train appeared to have
aneffl, miracnlously escaped. I left the track and was goiDgnp, up, up into
From Horlback’s alloy to Market street I the air.” Thia was the rising wave. Sad-
tho damage is not as great os it might have 1 denly it descended, and as it rapidly foil,
been. I it was llowing first violently off to
' babb’s lo\ on the east side of the street, I the east, the side of tho car apparently
is occupied ty several hundred people camp-1 leming over at less than an angle of forty-
ing ont * I tivo degrees. Then tuere was a re ilex ae-
The Victoria Hotel appears to have es-1 tio . and the train righted, and was hurled
caped, and the Academy of Music shows u» ! *Rh a roar •• o? dUc.harjo of artillery
DETAILS OF THE DAMAGE.
. . Academy
>igns of the earthquake, on tho outside at I '»ver to tho west, and finally subsided on
leant. I the track and took a plungo downward
From Market to TTazel street tho damage I evidently tho descending wave Tho en-
does not seems to be ns great as in other *dneer pnt down tho brakes tight, but
portions of the city. I *o groat was the original and added mo-
The Wiverly House is externally unin-1 uientum that the train kept right ahead,
jared. The largo red brick boarding house It la said, on trustworthy authority, that
opposite, and next to the south corner of tbo train actually galloped along tho track,
Heaufair street, has suffered badly, tin the front nnd rear trucks ot the coaches
top of the walls under tho eaves having I rUiDg and tolling alternately. Tho utmost
been stripped off on all sides. confusion prevailed. Women and chil-
The handsome block of stores from I ‘l ren Shrieked with dismay, and tho bravest
Bc-anfair to Wentworth streets lias been hearts quailed iu momentary expectation
singularly preserved, very few of the French I of more terrible catastrophe. Rev. Elli-
plate-glass fronts being broken, although I H ° n Capers chanced to bo on board, and ho
here and there a parapet is thrown down I loat no time in conveying, ns best ho could
and bricks displaced from tho walls. I ia the agony cf the moment, tho best
The Masonic Temple seems to have e~-1 advice nnd couusel he could offer. Tho
caped, nnd the dsnww to the buildings be-1 traio . was then taken back in tho
tween this point and Ci|lbonn street seems direction of Jedburg, nnd on tho way
not to be so great as far as ontward appear* I hack tho work of tho oarthquako was
ances go. terribly patont. The train hnd actually
In Wentworth street the handsome hall I passed over one of those serpontino curves
of the German Artillery has bean badly already described, and it is tho simple truth
damaged. The northeast And northwest I to *tato that every soul on board was aived
corners of the building bavo both gone. solely through tho interposition of divine
Coming down Meeting street from Cal- Providence,
houn street signs of the eartbqgake are very I The horror of tho situation in Summer-
plain. Both the High School and Fieund-1 ville on Wednesday was much intensified
'chaft’s Band Hall nre comparatively unin- by certain manifestations that were not ob
jured. The building of the Charleston served in Charleston to any great extent
waterworks, in George stroet is aniDjared. I All during tho day there was a con-
and ho, str *nge to say, is the immense three I atant series of detonations, now east,
million gallon reservoir on tbo premises, I now west nnd from all possible
although tho brick house opposito iu I directions. It resembled the discharge of
George stroet is badly damaged. The I h»avy guns at intervals of about ten min-
shock on Monday night severed the pipe I otes, and like sounds of bombardment at
through which the water ws*v forced into I a gr*at distance. All of tho explosions were
the stand pipe, and daring the progresa of I not accompanied by tremors of tho earth,
the fires prtMsure was applied directly to the I ns it was only occasionally that tho
main. This pipe was, however, replaced, 1 earth would quake from the
and tho stand-pipe, which was uninjured, I subterranean discharges. A remarkable
'*as filled with water. I fact was noted in Summerville in rospoct to
All over the city the injury is of the same 1 lb® knlging of the water from tho interior
character. °f &e earth. Nearly all of tho wells hod
A special report from Mount Pleasant, I been at low water. Thero was a suddon
opposito Charleston, sajs that a sink rise in all of these wolls, and tho additional
near tho German church, which on water was pure. Looking down into one
Wednesday was perfoctly dry sand, I °f theso wells, an observer coaid,
is now fall of fresh 'water Near oo Iho eve of any of tho load detonations,
Shell street thero Is a cabin, occupied by see tbo water rise up tho walls of the woll,
a colored man, that is completely snr-1 n^d alter tho shock again sabsido.
ronnded by yawning chasms, extending I There is a rather mure cheerful feeling
through the earth’s snrfaco for ten feet, to-night, but no sense of security will rc-
and all over and around this thero aro sinks Ire shattered houses and rerow tho
of fresh water and mosses of mu I, I mined bo jus. Offers of assistance aro
with queer-looking soft substncces coming from different quarters, nnd it is
that have never been soen bo- expected that the city oonncil will organiz
fore. It Is contended by relief committees to-merrow.
nyoy that the mud and other substance* Despite the loss bv the earthquake,
foand around the village aro volcanic mat- Charlwton is in as good position aa over for
ter. Just after the first shock on Tuesday transaction of tho usual autumn trade
night, there was a decided and distinct There is ample warthoueo and wharf room
smell of escaping sulphuric acid gas over The compresses aro in trim nnd merchants
the entiro village. The smell lasted mx* factors nre ready to deal expeditiously
throughout the night. It was with all business that offers,
distinct in those localities where This statement U made to corroct an ox-
tbe cavities in the earth were i»ting erroneous impression that tho com
most numerous. Some say that portions nieicial facilities of the port aro injurod.
of the mud thrown up by watersponts are additioxad deaths.
strongly impregnated with sulphur, and The following additional deaths aro ro-
that8nitoll portions of sulphur can be found ported: John Cook, a colored Ilhhejman;
lnthemnd. _ , . 4l , . I Zero B , daughter of Isaac 8awyear, aool-
Not far from Charleston, on tho real to ored barber; a colored babv, child of Mrs.
Summerville, exUoetvemound* of clay were n. irn well. Mrs. David, of W Nassau street,
thrown up and hillocks of sand, iu moat di*d in three-quarters of an hour from norv-
casts in tho shape of Inverted conee, the oug B h 0 ck.
hollow part of which had evidently been ___
formed bv tbe action of the water return- THB UMCOltD kioht in the stheets.
iog into the depths from which it bad been Ln*t night the old scenes of fright and
raised. In many cases the erupted water f«»f «er* enacted in the public squares and
had streamed away from the breaks in the parks. Frail women, some of them almost
surface of the earth to a distance I dead, and infant* in tbtir arms were driven
of twenty to thirty feet Io I® the necessity of spending tho night on
other places there were fi«*ur. r, the square, with only such covering »u
almost invariably extending from north I could bo improvised by tbo use ot blankots,
to south. sbawln and sheets. Io many of the squares,
The«o cracks wer* not wide and extend- “ 'T““*?o Q •“
ed downward almost in a nlanting direc- f r0 ,? Janc “ to ,Vl e *® * ' ,er ® ,I * cr0 “« 1
ri!.m The matter that <» thrown® np waa % ^STSl
of a dark alaty color and wa. mixed with | « “>„• ^
St. Michael’s Cracked From Kaves to Foun
dation—Ollier Ualldlugs Damaged.
, ,, . CnanuorroN, 8. 0., September 2.—The
, B _ very finest grain and whito as dnven enow I people are gradually taking account of the
A competent architoct says two-thirda of I in many places. It waa piled aeveral feet I details of the injory worked by tho earth-
tally a thousand bnlldin K a will have to bo and ehapod like ant-hill*. They were 8t1 - HtartUng. th I Hmill eS in tCoata
entirely rebuilt, nnd that it would ho a dcntly sand geysers. ot tbo clty u B n, m pi # 0 { the whole. 8tand-
doabtfal and dangurons experiment to risk I examined ono largo fisanre; It waa I iog at tho post-oflico and looking west, an
inhabiting nino-tenths of them without en- twenty yards long nnd nearly as many feet almost impauable roadway of debrle
tire rebuilding. Somotfow, probably ono deep. Where it cloned at tl^ bottom was I i.^y ^m^ecl a porttao
hundred, might bo repaired. I fine whito sand; another sand waa like R | 0 fthe sonth and east walls having been
Tboee that hardly lost a brick aro in a I burned pressed brick. It, too, was almost thrown down by the violence of tbe shock,
more dangerous condition than some whero I os Ado ns flour. J* boildmg of \\ Mker, Evana &
the entire top story was ehaken down. 1 In plaeos whero there has been no nlin I \ '’graulfo ''slabs which formed tbo
Nearly all tho houses have a throe-window for ten days there aro pools of water tbe p ani p e t of the News and Courier boild-
front, and it in noticeable that they are all color of clabber whey. The most peculiar I ing lie upon tbe sidewalk, leaving the
ctackedatth. second story and at the matter that I ever saw was in little hilta r A Q oj“ d "Z bu^tag
middle windows. This indicates that tho with a hole in the centre, whence it had Myer’s cigar atore and Hmith's
honses nre loosened at overy point and are sponted. It was like klnemass in color, gtencil establishment is torn ont, leaving
beyond repair. I though not quite so etiff. It was oily, and I the upper floors exposed. The Flengn build-
Here Is whero tho great loss is entailed, entirely without gilt. It.ugge.ted in "Pj I ^dS^e^lbit
The people seem less despondent than one I pearance crude petroleum, and waa devoid h j ree t are more or less damaged, hot
xrould expect. They aro so glad that they I of odor. I the violence of the earthquake is moil per-
ue alive, that they were not engulfed alive Between Bavmel’s and here In several cepUble at ^" htatoeta. tater*eetiora
into the bowels of tho earth, that they do places tho croaa-ties and rails were mowed . ^ ^ almost 0 a complete wreck.
not think of tho enormous loss of property, two feet. In ono place the road-bed | ^ 0a B pp. r rige “ ‘ the wall gravel" Th^WM 0 ^ a liUle“tata, "and I P" 1 "’- I» W„hington Park the., were Id
While they have recovered from the panto seemed to have been ehifted. bee been torn down end that of the north j„ n, R m n .t resembled that which I ' J ? tw ? n t! r p men with etentun. p wo.c. r.
Of Tuesday night, full mental equilibrium Accounts vary here as to whether tbe I waUhaa fallen on
ku not been restored. Nearly everyone I lUrnes camo out of the earth. Some assert i t An ding.* The city hall apparently
*eeme dazed; tho coolest man talks excited- positively that they saw anlphnrona llamts ,. scapw i damage, bnt is badly cracked
lj and exaggeratedly when he tells yon of emitted. However, there is no disogree- the east walls. The court house bnildinj,
the disaster! It ta difficult to get ca\m on- Lent that the atmosphere was filled with
swern to nny question; to even an Inquiry anlpbnrous fames. gables being thrown down. The fire-proof
that does not relato to the earthquake. As to relief, ample money for personal I bluing „ e ems to eland os a rock. The
Not only aro the vast majority eo ner- wants ia being offered from cities all over gables of the north Md sooth
voua that they fear another shock at any tho country. There are two committeemen baMthro {j^ ^ y, e p» rement below ’ This
moment, bnt thev cannot be persuaded to here from Savannah, who camo toJay. appears to be the only damage done to the
deep in tk»ir lioueen. Savannah has raised tl.OOO, bnt the com- building. The worse wreck in the toebty.
Ten thousand people are sleeping in the mitteemen *»■* ** « ^ ^
“Pen places, and in chairs in the streets to- draw for any amount np to $10,000 tor an I f(ep|#> 0Q wh)ch ^ jmit
mpht. Courtney’s I’ark and Marion and I personal needs. I been completed,ee«ms to be intact, bnt it U
Wuhington squares ore crowded with peo- How the people will ever recover from oat of phuab, and to in momentary dangy
£ » tuick as sardines in n box. the property damage* Is ^^^0^*^.^
Some have mattresses, others stiaw, some lam. The people thembclve* do no ^ | the bnilJing boa been cracked u* foar
blankets end others are lying on tho naked grasp the idea that many of them are pUeee. One cr»ck in the north well ex-
3 Sn.nriallv rained. There is eome discus-1 tends from the cave* to the lower window,
p .. . . . 7 Uikine a ten million Two on the west face of the church extend
Every omnibus in town ia hired out to- sion of the idea of asking a xen the entire height of the building, and
"igbt. People have them In tho mlddlo dollar loan from the general government ax ^ oo# on the wtll ^ tlUn £ ( rom
<* the atr,, u and on lots. Boards are a nominal rate of interest on e mortgage on the ..vet down almost to the foundations.
Ibd uro.. .a . 1 restored bnilding* on which tho money These cracks are almost immediately coder
“i 8cro ** the seats and os many as five the reetoreu ouumii . ^ . wU#h it ,,, ni1 impomi-
81 d eta ore jammed on mattresses I would he expended. ■ I ble will stand any length of time. Tbe
fa them. In tho squares the The matter ha3 not taken definite shape, I on ^ dock pointed to five minute*
M -, mn however of 10 o’clock, which must have been tie
fa Eonmiyd^a|save^at thereii notafmd I I ^°TheiiSldii^« between 1 Sitting and KiDg
between the tents. The tents aro would bo at tbta time sheer fo jr. 0 nc .treeta are all more or less damaged, the
"“do Of variecated bed quilts 'ap robes, believe ten mUlion* will cover tbe damage. I effe . u c f the earthquakebeing tho aarne to
coatM. ... 1 , , , , , mirlnieht. the city is a* quiet as a city nearly every instance. The front wall of
cotton baling mod faded «1- Atmidu .ght, me 7 q I Df reeidence has been
100 Seises—truly a motley gtonp. To do- 1 of tne dead. « ora oul » '
the park. In St, Andrew’s parish, for ten
miles on the other side of the Ashley river
bridge, the country is cut up in small fis
sures and mud holes of from an
inch to two feet in diameter. These
holes have emitted blue mud and gray sand
in l'irgo quantities, and the whole surface
is cowraU with little mounds. The people
living in tho parish sav that the mud and
water boiled up from lire to ten feet in
height, and they all seem to i»e iu a muni
demoralized condition. One old negro
woman said that the view of
the city was most appalling;
that after tho shocks were felt tue cries
from the city could bo distinctly hoard, and
that almost inline lint* ly the light from the
tires lit up tho heavens over tho city.
Tho colored residents of the parish
thought that judgment day had come, and
commenced crying and prating for mercy.
At Williams’s farm, near the three-mile
post, which is planted by John Bruunou,
tho surface of the ground was disturbed by
vent holes, which threw out during the
night seven different kinds of sand, varying
in color and shudo.
At Summorvillo yesterday the scenes
were such ns it is impossible to
adequately describe. All the stores
were closed, and the few people
who were on the streets wandered
about iu an aimless way, not knowing what
next to expect. All the inhabitant had
abandoned their houses after the shoek on
Tuesday night, and few of them hud the
temerity to return. Tho shock is said to
bavo been much more violent than in
Charleston, but tho general characteristics
wero of course tbe same. Iu Summerville,
howevor, the people rushed affright-
into the block darkness
and in tho general gloom and dy*pa»r the
wailing of tho women, shriels of the
hildren and frightened voic*< of men
made up a sceno and sound*
that wero equally distressing and
appealing. AAs in Charleston all through
the night there was nothing but sickuoss
aud sorrow, nnd suffering, and constant
dread of final dissolution and utter anni
hilation. When morning dawned the
.uni and devastation were found to be
complete. There was not a homo ‘that hr«l
not luM-n made d< solute in »» greater or less
I gr . All chimneys had dropped, walls
were rent in twain, ceilings
fell, and in numerous cases
houses that rested on wooden blocks or ma
sonry wero leveled to tho ground. Other
houses woro split from top to bottom, and
left with yawning chasms in the buildings.
Among those which were hurled from
their foundations were those of Gen
eral John *0. Minott, Mrs. B. F. Tighe,
L. Dtstreville, E. J. Limehouse, Percy Guer
ra re, Ben Perry, tho Nettles house and that
of Mr. Ed Fisbarnes.
1 lif old tuinih mansion of the Pringles,
on King street, Charleston, rendered famil
iar to readers in nil parts of the
Union by description and illustrations,
in tho Ceutury—about two years ago, stood
thf sliu.'k well. Ammrontlythe walls wore
not cracked and but littTd%»histering fell,
although some of tho valuahiH China relics
tell ami wero broken. In the yard, strange
to say, water from tbo well camo up like a
water spout, and overtlowed tho yard, and
deposited six inches of sand for a distance
of twenty stops around tbo woll.
In tho yard of tho premises of Lieutenant
Gouhlin, of tho police force, is an i*p-
heaval about eight feet square, showing yel
low clay. . Tho soil of tho yard is black
•arth.
During tho progress of the fire in
King, near Broad street, on
Woduesday morningf a woman who
occupied the second fi<»>r of
ono of the burning buildings tied her in
fant child in a feather bed and threw it
from a window to the ground. The child
was unhurt.
No damage of consequence is reported
on tho sea island.
n g. nerat ™ muu nemumtu wmeu fao ibooWd And , e lled and iliirieked until
fa* h ™ w “ *£ b ^ m “L? P .^ 'ovw »tt»r 1 o clock in tbe moraing The,
EuL! I. # i nT. wire aaked todesiat, or at leaat to condo, t
places had Uta taata ot oM artcaUn watar. | th.rarvtec.ina kaa boi.tcrona manner.
und UmSdaa^that from a mountain apring. 'i? 1 to do ao. Kemonatrance on
buu umpiu u fcUBv iiuu> mm 1 , , the pert of some gentlemen prodiMd very
These tvidences of a convuLion | iuHnlent replies on the part of a number of
are not sporadic. They extend far and I negro rough* who shared in the
near, in every direction, from tbe city lim- conduct of the meeting and
it* of Charleston to Summerville. At the I who loudly and boisterously protected
latter place it wn* foand from trust I that they would make a* much more as
worthy information that the cracks and I they pleased, and that no interruption
fissjres are everywhere vinible for would be allowed. The night wore on slow-
mUes and miles around. Strangely enough u an d painfully. At 11:50 p. in., a heavy
some of tb**« were in active operation, and I earthquake passed through the city. Its
f||j |M r ' u '* B * coming was presiged by quite* number of
explonions, aim and distant, which com
menced to be heard fully five minutes
before the vibration wa* felt. The
wave was Homewhat more pronounced than
the two which had preceded—one at 8.-*25
a. m., and another at 5:15 p. m. As it
passed by there followed Bounds, which in-
dicMt'.-d the falling of walls or buildings.
This was the last vibration last
night. Boon after it had passed
man appeared and advised tbe
people to go to their hous<
hUting that he was the only scientific man
in the city, and that ho was antbority for
the statement that there would be no more
shocks. This advice was unheeded, very
few people leaving the ground. At day
break there was a movement, and as the
Ben rose and as there bad Wen bu additional
vibrations many of the people pulled up
their tents and departed to their
thattered homes, in the earnest hope that
they hod participated in their tost picnic in
FROM aUGUBTA.
Reported Sinking of the Karth at the Foot
of the Sand Illlle,
August A, September 2. Augusta is quiet
ing down. Tho temporary horn s con
structed iu tho streets of dry goods bore*
are deserted and tho people have returned
to their residences.
A slight shock was felt to-day at 8 a. m.
and another at 11:30 a. in. Home report
jars at9 to-night.
Business lias been resumed and every
thing is uow jogging along as usual.
Great excitement prevails <>n account of
tbe reported sinking of the earth at the foot
the sand hills,two mil* h from the city. The
ground has either sunk or tbe hill elevated.
Vuny think tho latter. It is a fact that
plact-H can bo seen from reel lences on the
hill which could not be seen from the
same points before tho cnrthquaV ■
T*" 1 * ,,,r 't 1 " ,K Uli ot For-
Washington, Beptomber'ir *
was received at the Treu<m
this morning from tlio uiuyo.
ton, North Carolina, for trails
the relief committee from Wih
(’harb-ston. The revenue cutter
wr i immediately placed at tho disj
the committee. General Drum, acti.
•.etaryofwur, has directed that ten
bo sent to Charb-hton to shelter the hn
Itf.s people, ami as railroad coiuuiunicatio
are interrupted, the revenue cutter wi.
transport tent > to the distressed eity.
To Knuniuu Tli« llartiur aud UomI.
Washington, I). C., September 2 An
official of tbe coast survey h“** been sent to
Charleston to make a sounding of the the
harbor, anil adjacentcotat in order to see
whether any remarkable depressions or ele
vation* of tho bottom of the ocean have
been caused by the earthquake
Cochran htiaknn I7p.
Cochran, bept< uibtr 1. -The shock of an
- trii.qu ike frit percetiMy here last
night, the first sensation occurring at
and continuing thirty seconds, with two in-
t r\ .1-v tf till., seconds each. The last
shock was the greatest. There was con-nl-
* ruble hbuk'ng and rattling of sa^h, crock
ery, eto..
constant shocks that were felt at frtuumer
mervillo sent tbe water ont of these fiaanies
in jets to the height of from fifteen to
twenty feet. ThU waa evidently the result
of the cracks beiog fitted with
water ord their sides opening
and closing by each succeeding
shock. These appearance* were, ot conrte,
suggestive of still more violent eruptions,
and there was a constant d$ead everywbeie
that there would be a general inundation
caused by some extraordinary force of earth
quake. Not only was water emitted in low
places where it might be expected to exist at
all times,but on the tops ot th* highest ele
vations mud could be seen. This latter fact
indicates thil the for *e was b mg everted
at rather more than the depth that wa* first
thought to be the limit of the force.
Near the ten mile hill a fatal accident oc
curred oa Tro-nday. '1 he down ( Ylumbia
train jump-d the track. Engineer liorns
and fireman Arnold, colore<i, w»*re badly
injured by a tremendous leap which the
Frightfully Jarrrri.
LotnsvnxE, S< ptember 1. About half-
post 8 o'clock last night this community
was frightfully jam <1 and alarmed by a vio
lent earthquake, which was followed at in
terval* of a fow minntrs by six smaller
ones. Little roaring noise at- 'ompumed it,
and no damage to property lias been re
ported. _
llouaes Rocked nod Windows Rattled.
Americus, September 1.- Americas ex-
p« n n •• I the n !•> ot »t first etuis *-arth-
quake lost night. Tne shock occurred at
9 o’clock and was plainly felt by everyone
in the city, for nearly a ininub*, during
which time bouses rocked perceptibly ana
windows rattled violently.
Two DUtinct Shock*.
Adaiustili.i:, September 9. Two diitinct
shocks of earthquake was felt here last
night at 9 o’clock. Many jx-ople left their
houM'» thinking they would (all in. Guvst*
in tlie hotel here, a large brick structure,
wer* driven away, th*-ir rooms shaken like
a vessel in a heavy* sea.
Amauar nuock.
Wu.kknton, (»\., September 1.—Another
earthquake shock wai felt here this after
noon at 4:10 o’clock but was very light, and
caused but little excitement.
i 9:22 loco!.'
I been dpoe.
r a* learned no damage no* | similar occurrence come from surra
i town* in ail dir^ jms.
i at noex unn, Ala.