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VOL. XVIII. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 7 1886 PRICE FIVE CENTS THE QUAKING EARTH Awakes the Country From the Lakes to the Gulf. A GENERAL SHAKING More Severe im the South Than Elsewhere. W. D. Qrant's ftmUy tie living there while _ mtdo on their own :nco. Colonel Grant m In bod suit •sleep. Uo wss wilted by the shook, snd when his son celled, hewsi sitting np lntho bed. Captain Great, when tho first shook wss felt stys: “It felt snd sounded likoji stroct CHARLESTON IN RUINS The People Homeless. Terror Stricken and Desperate. MANY LIVES LOST! Damage to Properly Esti mated at Ten Million. «*- Z The wholo country hsd 1 scnsstlon Tassdsy night in tbeshspo of sn csrthqusko. The shock wss felt in Atlanta at fire min. tries to fl o'clock, and appears to hart bean uniform throughout tho city. The damage, aa far as ascertained, la slight, but the strain on the nerret wss terrific. A slight nausea be. tpoke its melancholy In perhaps 60,000 stom. ■chi a few minutes after the rambling shock hsd passed. The commotion lasted perhaps three minutes. Tnz Constitution reporters circulated through tha city up to midnight and found groups of people still standing on tho side walks. Larger nnmhors were still drenod and awake and announced their determine, tlon of setting np all night A vicious lm. pretslon prevailed that the thing was coming back at midnight—probably started by the follow who always says, when a rattlesnake Is killed,that its msto Is suro to bo lntho neighborhood. Tbo groat majority of the people, however, put their faith. In Providence and in tho 2,700 feet of solid granite th tho slot: of thet Just IN THE CITV, Dow tin. Strange Occurronco Felt In At. Isntn, The Constitution building has sis loon and is five storlei above (round and sits on ono of the highest points In the olty. Just before the shock Tuesday night the en. glne which runs the electric lighting machinery wss working away busily In the basement, creating the nsnal throbbing jar, accompanied by the fiap-flap of the belting. In the butl- nesu office on the eldesralk floor a night clerk chatted as ha received the copy for an "ad.'' The elevator waa running bum the bottom toward tha top. On the fourth floor est tho city editor Writing array at hia desk. On tho top floor, lost ono hundred slope from the ground, fifty bluing olstirlo lights workers in the oomposlng room and top floor Thlrty-llvo or forty printera won busy ma> king The Constitution of Wednesday. In one room sat tho night editor overlook* lntho next room tha telegraph editor waa filling cut “press," In the next room four reporters were grind- followed by s strainings creaking feeling. _ at once took out my sratch. It wes Jnst flvo minutes to nine o’clock, and the shock's tram nlona motion lasted just three mluntea." Mr. J. G. Thrower snd family live in tho McConnell & James building, opuoslto Cham* tcrlin’e. This is perhaps the tallest building in the city, breadth considered. Mrs. Thrower is sn Invalid snd In bed. Sho and her has. band thought the honse would certainly fall, Mr. Thrower went to her bod, and taking her in bis arms, said: “I’m right here with yon, «n<1 will din Whnn thn tmmnt and wo will dlo together.’’ When the tremor hod passed, Mr. Thrower honied down stairs, and when last seen wss trying to get a hack to novo hit family. Ho sold: “I wouldn't stay in that house tonight for a million do! Isis." Tnrsday night the board of stewards Trinity cbuich held a regular union Thu members were engaged in but* ness for tho church, hat the shock wss so veero that every member ran ont Into the strut. Tbo attendants of a wedding party were practicing, but when the shock cams they, rushed ont into tho street leaving a large sambo of friends'? in tho church. A collection bad been taken npfor Evan’s chapel Inst before the earthquake. Tho stew ards sought the sidewalk with dispatch. After they had retnrnad one of them said :“lf we take np that collection again, brethren, I think wo can double it.’’ Tho Big Bothel church wss thronged with members snd visitors when tha shock cams. The building is a large, high on*. and when it gathered itself together It shook with crest - ~ lsng violence. The glass shades over the jtts hsng brought them In contact. They sent ont a dear, bell like sound which attracted the experienced tho tiding exclaimed t 'An eaitbquake! an earthquake!” Instantly tbo congregation became a panto* stricken crowd, and with a rash they made for the door. In tho scramble everybody for- iquake! an earth.] the congregation »wd, and with a . In tho scramble got ovary thing else except himself, and before the church could empty Itself the cm led rru wild, fully expecting avoir second woold bo their lut. Finally, everybody was ont, and then in leu than a minute the tion bad disappeared from tho each ono was hurriedly looking his home to lnd been <lono, alUully expecting to find death and destruction scut- tried in every direction. . A meeting of tbo doaeons oflreo first, iistchurcb was going on when one earthed began. Tho good men. it is said. /Gatteqj M*J» '4S-i n' church was very Indignant on account oTthd disturbance. Ho rushed out on tho sidewalk, collared a pursing stranger, snd exclaimed Who dat shako do clm’cir an’ nnkoall detn dcaonsiun sway!" The Knights of tho Golden Buie were In I section in their hall, corner Alabama and Broad street. The ’qnsko gave tho hoou n rock, snd In sn instant tho entire msmbsrshtp appeared to understand that an earthquake was «t band. With a rush, noth and shovo that seemed to Indicate that fraternal lovo had been forgotten, they made I fraternal lovo had been forgotten, they made for the door and influlok order appeared In tho street In full lodge regella. In this they pre> unfed sn unusual appearance and attracted a appearance good deal Of attention. Mr. C.U.Floyd: lives on Utgsxlne strut near the top of tha hill. His family hdd retired ‘ ‘ * lUowldg salt when •sdbewulnthosctoffol _ tbs ehock came. The hoou recked violently, snd the family wunnable to gel ont, so vio lent was the rocking, Tht shock Anally spent itself, and as the lut vibration disappeared, the rear end of the building dropped ont. A large number of pendnlntns were swung out of position and the clocks stopped. The eVetrio clock* ticked right on. Dr. Boring said: “1 think Atlsnts had a slight schock In 1868. It wss about that time.” Bev. Frank Joaeph, colored, who preaches chain-gang, was to tbo coonty < In the next th* Georgia news editor wu ed* before nine there wu a lit* tie tremor of the floor Ilk* onto th* movement created by a dog trotting serose. Quickly that changed to a shaking inch as a wax op produces In crossing a bridge. A sec ona or so more snd tbo great structure shook convulsively, end began socking and , being from cast to trembling, the movement west and west to east. It saeoed that the electric light chsodsUen would fall, so terri* bio was the ahock. Five stories above granod, and the building shaking In an earth quake! ' imagine the situation If yon Yon cannot li have never been there. Every man In the bntlding expected tbo horn* to fall to the grand within a mlnnte. A reporter's desk turned hslf over. The beys “ ‘ toward the elevator. The printers connty comm) He says he wee tlon, and bla eyes cording one being less distinct. Throe or four fins started in as many sections, with ths first shock and ths city wss soon illuminated with flame*, thus leading all to believe that what wss left by the earthquake would bo devoured by Are. However, th* fire depart ment wu so well divided and hsndled that the fires ware gotten under control by day. light. From fifteen to twenty residences and stores were consumed. The eity ie wrapped in gloom and business is entirely suspended. Peoplo generally re main in the streets, in tents and under Impro vised shelters, end will camp ont tonight, were then getting np. I recognised the mem- '■ * iliies Ikneweleeplngonthe fcstlng another shock. The gas works are injured sad probably the city will bs without light tonight. St. Michael's church Is shatter* cd sad the steeple will come down. Likewise steeple of St. Phillip's. Ths steeple of th* Unitarian church has fallen. The porticos of Hibernlsn hall snd ths msln station homo ate demolished. There Is orach Injury to msnsloni on East snd South battery. ben of several fami pisssss. The sldesralk at the Planters' hotel was filled with chairs, in which men, women and children werealseep. Covered with shawls and bed rlothiog, they made a curloua sight, I saw Mayor May snd bis family at barely daybreak, walking ths streets, and Captain Lettuce, of tho Central rosd, whom wo sought, hid not been In his honso St ell. Wo met bin, and his family In the streets. A Httlo later wo saw breakfasts being served In pis/res. A touching melancholy pervaded, slid tho faces of women and children, puled from exhenstlon snd anxiety, wero pitiful to look upon. A sad sight it wss to sec bablos In their improvised beds asleep on the streets. Th* tender car* of mothers hsd been exhaust* ed in tbo endeavor to can fur their little ones. The children wero to bo seen in twos, thrcei, ered without reaching the bottom. A hundred feet away from the pond the aolld earth wu wimched Into fiunresthathad no perceptible drift of shape or direction. Then had boon coemption end no extraneons under sand wss found in the t racks It was simply as if some tremendous power hsd torn tho earth msny are so shaken ana cracked that a hard •hock w ss severe at SnmmervllVe and Mount Pleasant and Bnlllvan’s Island, but no loss of ilf* is reported there. Flssares In th* earth are noticed, from which flnemsuc], apparently from a great depth, exudes. A sulphurous iavui «• ^ttesk vs smell Is very noticeable. Broad street presented a spectacle of the utmost horror. Even women armed with hatoheti fooght valiantly to rewne Imprisoned unfortunates Meeting street from Bre ■ road to | Bezel, la a wreck and ie lined with nnforta* nates. To add to tho horror of tho eoene it fires broke out and wore ineffectually fought by tho fire department.^ Tho night | dred dollars worth oJTbnslaesa dons In Augusta rlencea of one of the most terrible nights ever known. Tbo honse of Hon. Clay Foster, which Is frame, sru filled last night with fifty par* tons who refuted toetay in their houses of brick. They slept en the floors on the piaz zas, and on ths back steps WOESE THAW WAR OR I'FATILEKCE. For three asperate Right*thle city has boan shaken, and no on* knows what to expect. “It's a thing yon can't fight," said Editor Cohen, “and that snakes It so terrible. A fire, s battle, a storm, anything that yon can atsnd np against or proride sgslnst can bo mot with courage, but this unseen enemy that Jakes the very grand under your foot appalls th* stoutest heart I have never icon Augusta to profoundly stirred.” Mr. Cohen adds: I am satisfied that there iraa not one hnn and the prayers of thennlnjurtd. It Is Impossible to estimate tbo losses ef persons or property at proseut. XoteTen during General Gilmore's bombard ment of tho city has there evor been suoh a deplorable ststo of sfihlrs hero. Tho city'is i literally In mins and the peoplosro llriag la open square! and in public park* Thar* its great rush to tbo depot to get sway, bnt oaring to tbo earthquake no trains have boon able to bo despatched from tho dty. Telegraphic communication la also lent 'off, oxceptr lug ono wire of tha Southern telegraph com* all day j Noon*thought of inn weeiing maodalrns. A remarkable feature of th* scare la that the disreputable houses are entirely do- sorted, and the Inmate* were on the streets praying for mercy sud forgiveness. Ths pany, which Is crowded .with gnxlont^grlv ^ icezsges. It Is Impossible to depict I . sad desolation that prevail* hero. Not a elnglo place of bnstneu in the olty, save s drog store, which is busy preparing prescriptions, for tho wounded, Is It is impossible also, sited how the Atlanta people treat the earth quake so lightly. The truth Is, an Atlantlan oannot appreciate the absolute terror of tho situation until he reaches Angusta, which may lie said to sot on tho outoT edge of glon where the eartbqusko la uot onl. . ous, but altogether the most awful expsrlenoo of tho century. There are negro prayer meetings going eight and day, snd ths religions enthusla ie largest crack, was, perhaps, two foot srrors and hottonrleM as /hr as appearances could reach. THE TBAtIKDY ON RAtf., On the npper left hand tide of tho pond a tragedy hsd crcnrred. fho first break of the levee that encircled the body of water took place there. The water rnthed screes the rnllrotd track, carrying the tie* and nils Into I seijj unu 11*1*. tuu nuu law s smaller pond Inst beyond. Just then th* night express came thundering along. The night waa very dark, snd a short curve hid cun tho glistening waters. Tho engine fol lowed tho dislocated track and plunged Into tho smaller pond. Tbo fireman jumped and was thrown with tremendous force Into the water snd Instantly drowned. The engineer alurk to bit post, snd though tho engluo wu completely submerged, msnaged to escape with two broken legs. None of the passenger were hart. Almost st the ume momest, end la press plunged Into t crevasse |iond and the firamsn wu killed, the engineer •ml peateagut escaping. Tho volume of wator carry Irg tho I.sngloy asm before it struck the Both mills dam, a mile below, and swept it awty like a feather. It will require $100,000 to repair the damage done by the brooking dams. Your correspondent discovered a small boat serosa tbo bed of tho pond whloh wu secured by a native, who stripped and swam. In this we wero transferred and foand an engine in waiting. THE TEBEOB tit THE COUNTRY. The terror that prevails through this section irj In tho dty, and destroyed overy chimney ' reellcd, snd nearly erery We have just passed a well-to-do family ed pc rbips fifteen, living under sn Immense trom. They have chairs, beds, tables, books ana work. Near by is a fire, whoro tho cook has evidently prepared dinner. A hundred yards further we find * fallen hunts. A man reports’ sn Immense hole vomiting und and wator. RENEWED SHOCKS EXTORTED. The villsgors from siEty miles ont from Charleston report renewed thooke today, ths heaviest of which appears to have been about two and four o'clock. Wo find tho people living ont of door* for this ontlro distance. Usually tho family la grouped under* tree. They all rise and gaze at tho flying engine, as If It was a now earthquake, and return tho salutes of thn psrtcngcTS with undisguised melancholy, llidgevtlte " Je there wss not a chimney loft stand ing. The entire population wss living ont- reported snd reputed shocks 1 during lire day. TWO PERSONS KILLED, Two persons ware killed In tho neighbor hood by falling houses. Cautions sro Tamed to tbr conductor to ran very alow, and gangi or track hands sro busy straightening tha twisted track that we may pass ovor It. Looking down a long stretch of track, the nils wars'frequently ont of lino sovorsl feet, llgent fra open. give any correct estimate ef the killed and wounded, as ‘ " d, as bodies are constantly being dlt- 1 ftom the debris of the wrecked houses. Interred One undertaker stated he hsd famished eight coffins np to noon today. Many of the ■ • ' .... tho connty. Thcro arc not a half-dozen tom Jn the city,.qncl women sail children sro oxj» night approaches most of tho heads of stc trying to construct touts out of bed shoots, eparo awnings or any other material that coincs to their hands. •hock of last nlgbt In Angnsta is said to htvo been shout ono tenth as heavy as that of Tats, day night. From parties who were In Atlanta Tnesday night. I learn that tha ahookaof Wednesday nlgbt hare were quite as severe a* th* Atlanta shock. In the room ocouplodby Captain Howell, st tbo Fhsntera’, I found tho floor sprinkled with plastering, which hid been shaken down daring ths night. Herald the repeated shocks of hist night wero severer than snvihing ho feltln Atlanta. lenalng great privations In couscqooiicc. As I A negro di.ym». slept all night In hUdray., fe cm thlajoJnt forward *vcry mau travol. families Heesid ho had mrsmred the houses and know 0I1 l,|,own responsibility. Th« remnauUof the FIXING TO LEAVE. Just rumbling and felt tho ahock. CHARLESTON IN RUINS. and on the third floor encountered Mr. Doug* t usual, las, of Dixie, who, somewhat paler than asked, excitedly: “What's tha matter?" “Dunne!" answered tbs nowtpsper man Without stopping. When th* middle of th* itreot waa reached a aa* ran ont of Bliley's undertaking estate lifhmr&t And yelled: “What's tho matter np there?" pointing np toward The CoKirmmow oomposlng'ram. lie probably thought tons* on* had dropped a hair apace. Tho elevator man remained at his post, sod ays ha did not fool the shock at *11, owing to a tbo general conftuiou intho office, perfect derknea prevailed tor a minute. Th* engineer, feeling the shook, at first attributed it to something wrong ebook tho machinery and abet down th* engine, wharapon every the Cffiro in perfect darkness. The greatest conftation raized those in the top of tho build. in*. _____ At the Artesian Well. Five mlnntco after tho last qnivor of ths final qnake wu fslt, at least flvo hundred poo* pie gathered shoot tho trteslsn well. “The 1 Desolation and Gloom Amid th* Bains of th* City. Charlestons. C. .September 1.—[Spools!.]— A block pall hangs over tbo ones fair dty by these*. Th* hour of midnight la rendered doleful by the bitter lamentations of tho bo reaved. Mothers are mourning for their lost oflbprlng, and will not be comforted becaui* they are not. This It Indeed a dreary placo tonight. BAILEOADTEAnm WRECKED. There ere fonr railroad trains wrecked be tween Angruta and Charleston, and a consid- enblolossofllfels reported from tho thee* accidents. There la on* wreck fonr miles thl* •Ido of Charleston, another sight miles this tide of Charleston, snd two others between that point snd thirty mllos this •Ido of Charleston. Two engfnton and a fireman ara known to be killed, bat the news from tbo wreck Is motgre. Thors si* two theories ss to the cans* of the wrecks. The first, that the nils wore misplaced by ths convulsions of th* earth, and the other that they ware submerged snd displaced by the rash of waters. It is add that several dams beyond Aognsta are thrown down, snd that the surrounding c ran try Is flooded. Tbo dam at Longley & reported to ho wrecked. Ef forts are being made to establish telegraph stations this stdo of tbo wrecks, where there will b* fall nosra and details. Tho Booth Caroline railroad is receiving no basinets, sad is simply sending ont wrecking trains. It to reported that tTtn these srs ua- able to roach the sreoeka beesnse of sretar. The most Intense anxiety tnd uncertainty prsvsls. : hois to Chins,” said a wiry littl* man, has been closed np.' “Oh no, 'expostulated a man Inahirt sleeves, “it is belching forth enter st tbo rate of two knotted million gallons a minute.” “Thai's a 1—,’’ interrupted a bow legged aoda water vendor. preached the well to Invretigtte. He the well in It* Dermal condition. Pen Pictures of the 'Qa*k* The experience st Colonel John T. Grant's resilience ns definite. Thin i* ooe of th* Ixrgat and tat built houses In tho city, Mr. Detail* of th* Detraction. Charleston, September I.—Tho fint shock or earthqusks ns felt approaching last night at o'clock, and before tho peo ple could realize what tho trouble wu, they foned themselves beta* thrown around and their house* falling down on them. Erery one ran screaming Into the street snd In a few second* th* city waa wild with human beings, perfectly crazed with fright. On all tides you raid hear exclamations such as: “My God, save ns! ’ “God have mercy npon m tinners!" And pceplt raid boneen kneeling erery* where in grape offering np prnyen. The first.shock wss followed Immediately by toother, though of lea effect, brat renew ing tho screams and ihrisks and from ths tlmt of begin!** to daylight, shocks were felt at intervals of half sn hour, hut sock me- Augusta for CIutrlsston-Hcenei snd Inci dents on the Wuy. Augusta, Gt„ September 2.—[Special Tele- gram, from H. W. G.]—Since Don Qulgote charged the windmill, I doubt If ghastlier work baa been done than the sdvanoe I now begin against an earthquake. It waa “kiss and go” with Atlanta and her ’quake—a tremor, a sigh and an an revolr. But tho earth, quakes still linger In the lowlands, and I go to seek them there. Poor Den Quixote! I tom tonight to thy wistful face, gleaming still In the cere of * dead and musty century, and salute thee In profound sense of comrtdeehlp! Let ns sgrt* that when tho earth has qua! n<, It la best to cut you a seat in solid granite, sad alt down. Certainly it Is folly, while colic prevails, to glide down from the backbone Into the more or leu qnaaby region of the livers snd lights. Tho empty oar* admonish ms that when the earth's cruit Is crinkling, one shoo Id not leave Atlanta, but- tressed at lb# it on her everlasting hills. The conductor, th* bsggsgo man, snd tho net!ess crowds st th* depots, who com* In to loqnlr* If Is true that Atlanta Is overthrown, or Charleston engulfed, back this admonition. THE PEOPLE FEVERED. It Is curious to too how tho earthquake few possesses tbo peoplo at largo. Tho fear of this impalpable hat appalling foo hu seized tho public heart. The earth communicated Its tremor to tbo people, and the motion grow*. At tvsry station you hear of renewed ihocke, more or lees severe ssyonr Informsnt wss shook. At Conyers, i stoat men assured me that tho villago had besn unshaken line* tho grand palsy of Tuesday night. A thin man said be felt a shock at 4 o'clock, sure. A negro chipped In to the sam* effect, and th* fat man said be believed ho felt it, too. The only really awnring thing I have scan rises leaving Atlanta it Stone mountain. As far at I could Judge through tho dsrknon, It loomed tranquil. It certainly did not com* wabbling np with uncertain logo and head “hall bent" to tall me how oftan ft bad boon shook up during ths day. I wish it had, for I should have begged It to go with mo. In leaving it, I foal that I hare left tha gates of granite laud, and am henceforth llsbta to ho I mote down, swallowed np or epltoutatsny A man Jnst tells m* that a work' man drilling In th* hole penetrating Sioa* mountain, felt th* mountain sway and rock they could not fall an far as ho wes. This bo* imi.o popular before morning. A lone lino of wagons wsa drawn up In tho coutor of tho streets, snd filled with sleeping people. Two hundred persons spent the night in the grave yard, DY HORSE TO LANGLEY'S POND. Id rtsponte to my telegram, Ur. J. H. Av erin, muter of transportation of tho Month Carolina " ■ - - - rollna rosd, bujnrt wired: ■If you can reach Langley by hone, I will have •n engine to meet ^ou there snd get you Into IfpoaghlL Mr. Newt Haggle is now toms grays, and is; istyshewtllgetaetoLingloy in two hears. Ho agree* to take Ovo two. •tain E. F. Howell,Ur. <S A. Branham, Ur. 8. Cohen and yoor correspondent. Hia team la now at tbs door. A largo crowd bu gathered to sec ns off. We mtko th* start, hot when we will rrseb Charleston no ono can tell, or when wo Itiwu 1/UfiIKIlUU ilU uuo can IU1I, UI will reach a telegraph office. Tbo wreckage -'will not be along the road Is desperate, snd It will open for traffic In a week. Whenever wo do go Into Cbsriofton. wo will be tho very first persons that have gono Into that dty from the ontild* world riae* tbs break. H. W. G. THE CITY qomriHO DOWN. The" Knights of Labor at tho mills were holding a mooting lut night in a inmll one-story building. Ai light shock was felt while they wore In session. Tbo stamped* was so violent that a knight named Willitmi wss trampled on and hadhlo •tiu and tag broken. Tho excitement is greater In tho errantry tbon tho town. Than Ignorance, pcrntltlon and ozaggtratad stories add to tho real horrors of the ritosUon. Ken, «Wtt snd sere amine. The oenntry chnrohee been pecked since the first shock, and tamon rations and supplications may bo hoard for milts. Atleut two deaths are reported from Imttne. A woman drowned herself thronghI •ft ar at Bath. The (bare terrors of tho cyclono Ido not compare with the despair that comes with the unseen and Inexplicable earthquako. If another ahock should come today or tonight, the most serious remits may bs foared, oven though the shock Itself docs no damage. TUB TRIP TO CHARLESTON, gotten, though tho yawning fl’snros does that abundantly. _ Tho engineer notifies ns, ss he pulls cut backward, that wo sro taking < own rbks. Ths vlllsgts throngh which run remind ns of Sunday. Tho 'stores i elerrd, business la suspended Slid crowds lit- ertlly swarm about tho ongtno inquiring for nswe. They have bad no papers, few telegrams, no trains tad the must curious rumors are •Host By this time onr special engine Is crowded with Charlestonians who have beg- Tho wood tendorls covered wll are propped on the cowcatcher, * very good scat on sn engine that Is flying backward, ' " ’. Taboi Augusta is quieting down. Tho temporary ... ■- y drygoods homes constructed In ths streets of boles uo deserted, snd the people have re turned to their residences. A slight shock was felt today at 8 a. m. and another at 11:30, and some report |ars at 0 tonight. Buslnesi has been resumed and everything la now Jogging alone ax usual. tirsat sxclkmentpre rails because of there- dlls, two miles of the dty.' Either ths ground has sunk or the bill clsret*4. Many think ths latter. It fa* foot that places can be soon from residence on tbo bill which eould not ho soon from tho same point before ths earth qaako ibocks. JUDGE KING'S EXPERIENCE IN 1811. Acocsta, Go., September 2.—[Hpeotal,]— Mr. Harry Htmmonn was asked: ' Wss this o very sever* shock r “It was the severest shock on roeord any. where along the Atlantic slop*. Tho next rerest wss in 1811.” ‘Whit w*t It* center?'' "It extended from Cbarleeton, 8. C., to the Missouri river, where It tank largo tracts of land. Judge King, of Angotta, wss 'powum hunting at th* tuns la Kentucky, with a number of negro attendant*. Tht lights were extinguished by the severity of th* ihoek. They also loth their war." ON TO CH ARLSTON. Th* Wreck perceptibly, and ran ont In great alarm. Per- hai a, after til, wa hsd better put our trust entlnly in ths Lord. entirely in t GETTING BEYOND THE GRANITE RIDGE. Langley Pond—Strang* Irenes Along the Way. Cqailzstox, a C, September 2.—[Special Telegram by H. W. G.]—Ont In th* country from Augmtn ths signs of tho earthquake wore not abated. Even tha negro cabins had lost their occupants, and pkaalnnieo en insurance spiead under the big trees were abundant, Th* Drat signs of tbo convulsion that wero writ on the earth wore found at Langley mills. Thera s remarkable scone was unfolded. Augusts. At Greensboro, Union Point and adjacentpointa .shocks were frit distinctly during the orenlng and night. At Cms villa, sn aged citizen, with o stout stick In on* hind snd a lantern In the other, entered the car, He was evidently patrolling the town end looking np th* earthquake, pretty •s a town marshal looks op a burglar, so fraud. Hoi ly bound to collar it when Hoshork bis lantern furtively under tbeSmata, si If k* we bad tn* earthquake concealed tbongbt iomewhere is the car. “It's surely still In the neighborhood,” ho •rid, "for I’ve bear'd It twloe and felt it three tiBfitbii Terr nicht.” With this bs grasped his bludgeon 'and do- parted. Bis lantern, glimmering in darkness st onr train stele awsy. testified that there was cue faithful seal and stoat heart on guard in the village that night. A HORNING SCENE IN APODVPA. Aa the txala polled into Augusts loth* cool stay of the morning, a remoreabt* seen* was ■nictated. Th* center ef Bread strati was filled with boxes, on which people had slept " ‘ ‘' ~ mm* ran hswy *11 eight On Gretna street there were 1 beds under the trees, from which early risers hundred seres of pond tics wero bare, the post* being filled with operative* snd coentry pfeplt catching fish. On the near shore * hotel of pine bathe* bed been extemporised, end beep* ef pen fish, com dodgers and vln*> gar Mjicamade a mem that filled all out of doers with an appetizing odor. THE tABTH WBXNCHED ASVXDEI. The lASglry pond, the pride of this seetio*. was gone, ted th* forsst for • half mil* below locked as If* eyeloae bad tor* throngh them. This dam cost $50,000. It was about 400 feet scrove, and two carriage* coo Id have driven abreast easily ever Its tap. Th* ride* were properly sloped and sodded. The earthquake bad wrenched thlg enormous structure right snd left. Great cracks, converging nowhere, hat apparently mad* In capric* disfigured th* approaches. It waa throngh such creeks as Ues* that tbo water made its way snd ■wept tbs dam oat of existence. Tkees Sue res were not mad* by the earth slaking, bat by Its htlag wrenched violently apart. Doth tides of ths fixture! wen usually level. Among onr passengers Is Mr. Tabori.thj sou of tho famous editor who was killod In a duel by HtGrtW. THE EARTHQUAKE CENTER. Mr, Taber* lives at Bummcrvlllo, the lll-fs. tril village, twenty-six miles from Charleston, which Is undoubtedly ths earthquake cen ter. He wu In the ehock of Friday night, ice at ClfatlMtan, It lisa been in every time. Hr. Tsbenfs theory ai to tho com* of the disturbance st Summerville Is beds underlying tha thst In th* phosphite . .. . town, the pboephste rocks are very porous snd llghtaad looeely knit At Bnnebvllls a curious right presented It self. The depot ground* wero crowded with negro men, women snd children who had walked from Bummervllle, and hid camped oat all night, It wu a motley craw. They had left their bouses during the shook, and bad never returned. They were holding the liveliest sort of prayer meeting, snd utlng inch scrap* u they could beg or buy. Ths- railroad track wu sprinkled with them still coming. Old men, barely able child ' He foi ther told of a stream of water thst ‘ leg from tbo midst of s gang of A very Intelligent trackman said: “Tbo earth hu contracted. I have besn going over the road sll day cutting ont piece* 'of her. I have cut out u much ss flvo feet In one place. I have cut out two feet boro. The eerth contracts, snd thst bends tho nils, so w* have to shorten them.’’ ~ her I ran* ruiUig workmen snd roes several feet lntho air. A I'lTIFUL SCENE. At Jrdbarg we saw s pitiful scone. Hun dreds of negroes and whiles wero gathered la the depot or on tho platform singing snd pray- Irg. They took no notice of our arrival, hut their weird, strong singing wont on. Such tenor I never uw on so many faces. Tho women were crying. The children’s features wrro tenro with fur. Somo had fainted and others were prostrated.' It wu rapidly growtag dork, end u night gathered tho terror abasement. The prayers wire Intoned so that they were almost songs, and, Interrupted by shouts snd scroamv, wore S itbstlc snd exciting beyond doacrlp. on. The prayers wero directed squarely sgslnst tho csrthqusko. — Whites us li'siks jiiinnl 111. ' Uvnn tlio travelers lifted tliolr hats and bowed tholr heads, It wss a sccno never to ho forgotten. Thou wretched and pitiful people, turnea oqt of tlic-lr bonus, liuddlod under quilts or on tho bare ground, In paroxysms of fosr, igoorant, sutirrstlllcps r.mt werptng. The women snd children would ask us questions with tears, sttsesuloie down thc.lr cheeks, and beg usfi • Y into the scat of c when wo left. Tho little ouos wore crowding under the quills stretched oo pole*. There wern no eigne of food or supper getting. Tho praying and shouting the shouting and tho wails of tho children f 'owed us down tho trsek. DRINKING EARTHQUAKE WATER. At this place your correspondent drink h[g first earthquake water. It rsmo from s fis sure which hsd thrown up s car load of bluish mud, voy sticky and cohcnlvo. Th# watrr tasted of enlphnr and Iron, hut uot disagreeably so. At this place wo saw tho first honso that had beat lcvflsd by tho shock. It was a country doubl* hr,use,sud hsd killed a women snd child wham it fell. It wss tumbled In a heap, Just ata 1 rnp of chips fhi'kcrl lint. rnrzpiNO along through the wood*. It Is now dark! Tho englno thst should Lava had ns ia Chsrlrston st 2 o'clock, la picking Its way slowly along. Camp fires Idnze In the wood*. Homes sro deserted snd silent, snd thslr la- habitants Hitting shout the fires. People In the wools remind one of war times. Oar en gine bis Just been thrown sharply to the right •id then to tho left, and a telegraph line men, who ws* sitting on tho tend** thrown to tho ground scvorely Injured. On •lopping wo learn that a fhsrp shock had -,F,st'l. Tho track Is three fact out of gear to ho right, sud left In sn • S” shtpe. A track man reports a shock half an boor ago, accom panied with an explosion which opened th* ground for a spare of six feet, snd threw * slresui of water fifteen feet high. The eoglna to totter and littl* children, In arms A whit* brglra, from Summerville, almost sa gnat, took placo yesterday, Thre* pinsurer coaches snd two cab* wero parted to.sgfihos- tlon, snd hundreds grart left on tbo track. They left their houses open snd did not care where they wen going. It wss simply a ntll mell flight. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Summerville is certainly a deserted village. We continued to mret negroes hurrying slung tbo track with more uneasy htsta thin they ever ran before their mssten’ hounds. Wo *r* now approaching the fated village. Th* Is crawling along, and tho outbound passenger train bea Jnst ricieil □> at a snail's pice. Wo can feel constant inequalities In the track, ililtg snd sinking snd swsylng. As wo pass by tho fisiures of flowing water which shoos’ line tho track wo detect them by tho smellof sulphur even btloro we SCO tho water gtlstonlug. Tinly,wear* lath* midst ofosrthquskes. A feeling of depression and awe has seized ttregta ire emptyexoepl g$ Jnst th«y>tat th* BvmntrrDh railroad tracks. "The «.eh r ” n4 convolsion sro th* flowing tho twisted flowing holts, from v oblong unceasingly. Th* clayey. It Is wnltlsh powdered roc», •— -p- rrtrs to hsv* been freshly ground. Occasion- " " **"i flow of water, ,od it net st sll rock, and sp. ’ It chokes the I , when tho lly it rater pulls forth, clearing th* obstroctlon sway. Th* water itself Is bracklih, tepid end baa t distinct taste ef sulphur. Where It inns and rink* Into th* grand It lurei * •tain thst is more Ilka Ira. Th* water flows th* itreats srs reamed, but others sn dry. The holes.snd firsnres followed th* shock, ap pearing at random. They did not. hewerer, flew fteely nntll some hours after the shock bad paired. ANOTHER RAILROAD WRECK. Th* traektof the railroad bore ware twisted In lb* shape of tn “8.’’ Th* Iron bars were bent as If they had b**n bested. They were nctdctscl usually ■ chad from Ih* Thor tie*, bul i'tbs bate hsd sn upturn. The (ids wore high In thooir. Th* wtsdone apparently in. sternly. Ths night psstongsr running lots .. - ■ • -- ■ 1, both tbo ths alsplxctd tricks wss wrecked, osgtaetr and fireman being ktllsd. - A SOUND LIKE THUNDER. A Mr. Lswton says of the shock at Sommer- Tills: “When I wok* op, I wu covered with R tester, snd th* boos* wu straining snd nol le. After th* shack there was * rotring for tall* half hear. ItWMsxsctly to If * COO- tlxuoos roll of tbasder was confined lanredt- stely under lb* (arise* of tho earth. It waste toed ss ordinary tbuudsr snd without taflsc- tlon. This roaring wu not heard in Charles ton. Th* shock threw lsmpe ont of thrir hangings, Liohe slaoit every piece of crock- upon ttopsrty of travellers thst began the illy, snd wf" trip to gaily, sml will not bo thrown off. Of. trn for* hundred foot the englno rods u If It were* best, snd SO WE GO INTO CHARLESTON ! The first right that struck ui on entering was along lino of cars, crowded to suffocation with people who wero In fur tho night. The first round wss religious singing proceeding from rach of the cars. Ths first im- pieition mtdo on ns by Charleston waa. that It wss s disorderly city, the sidewalks and streets bcingpltod with brick snd debris. The second Imprcsuion wss thst it wu ■ slightly tipsy city, s honro hero and there be ing ont of plumb,snd leaning affectionately sgslnst Its neighbor, or propped on t stick. The thliil Impression was that It wait nmp. Cftsdsi Grcu snd every park or breathing place wss covered with tents, under which ccnld lo seen peoplo psclcod Ilk* sardines. SCENES IN THE CITY. The streets wero full of people hurrying to end fro with bagglg* and bedclothes, always walking in the middlo of the street. At every bind we met mothers carrying bablos, father* rallying bedclothes, snd children carrying then selves and leaking tho tents, tho parks or the walls. A sinister effect wss prodo by Ike foot thst there wu * light in tho second story of any building. right <re On (he first floor It wu usually dark the fint floor Invariably to. A MORTAL PLOW TO THE CITV. Tht tis.nl Impression,after a two hour i nto, wu thst * mortal blow hsd Ison struck tha bravo old city, sod that sho wu staggering on toward a very desperate ftitaro. Tbo pile of debris In front of th* brick buildings wav unbroken, Hull rating that none had escaped. Mrny Unmenu biill'nii bail crumbled and fallen, such si tbo store of Wil liam Elid, which li » total wreck. 1 have talked with many people, am] hays ““fibtrire ditcaitlon in crowd*.. Abandoned, tho lion hotel Is empty. Mr. ftrerioer l'is veteran •nperlntendentof Sho Western loion. who his for folly years boon In imh rosnes, mid to sue: ‘Tho Lord did Chsrlsstou fifty times mure harm in fifteen scconil. shako ths* the war did i» -five yesra. I walked through this town by tbo light of ',2 PRIKT