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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.,. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 7 1888
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THE QUAKING EARTH.
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of tb* Charleston -,1-snil-rof commerce. thinks
the city's trade greatly injured. He jilacesthe
damage to property a? $9,000.000.He sail
that It would be natural fur those atrTio have
hereto lure tradrd with Charleston to apprehend
financial troubles among the business man,
and therefore to dfcslro to trade with other
cities. .
“Butt” he continued, “Charleston recovered
from tlie greet Ore of 1838, recovered from the
disaster of 1801, recovered from subsequent
disasters of the wer.nmovered from the cyclono
year Ago, and I believe she will recover from
the great calamity that has Just befallen her."
he great calamity that baa just befallen nor.'
CUpUln P. W. Wassoner. of F. W. Wag'
gourde Co., wbelmale grocers, alto thinks
tho city's trade injured. He bedtoues, hoar-
ever, that the Injory is alight, and that It will
not be appreciable in a. few wcoks; Ho »«
asked what bethought would bo done to re
build the city.
■T think," he repl-ed, "that tho gonsral
government ahtuld-irnd the people of tho city
several millions of dl.ilaiy at a fawrajuof la*
teiette. The time for repayment should be
fired at thirty or. lay yean. There Is no
othnrwrsyj^r which ihe city can be rebuilt.
I of the people are very poor, and
ere unable to db anything for themselves. A
meeting of business men will be held; in a few
day* to prepare a memorial to be promoted to
the government"
Mr. J. Von Oven, of the firm of Henry Brl-
schofi'A Co,doeenot think that the city's trade
wlU suffer at alb Hu agrees with Captain
Waggoner as to what thu government should
do.
“There are some rich men In Charleston,” he
said, “but many that bava been heavy losen
are'poOr. They cannot rebuild their ruined
houses. It to a aid fact that a large number of
tho old and aristocratic citizens nro among the
latter class. Tho Hamilton*, the Haywoods,
the Montgomerys, aud hundreds of othors,
wore ruined by the wsr. Thoy had their
homes but not mneb else These people will be
tumble to rebuild. Tho condition of the labor
ing classes Is pltmhle. They will not be able
have ■M ....
There is scarcely a business man of any
onion or attain here and offering assistance. A
Hew York insurance nnmoany instmeted Hr.
Tapper to draw on it at right for five handled
dollars. Others, from all parts of tho country,
have offered from one hundred to several
thontand dollars to assist the needy.
A SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY AS TO THE qCAKE.
A scientific inquire is being made into the
cause of the earthquake hy Prof
ofessor McClee,
of the geological sutvry. with oompetant as
sistants. Professor Mcfleo is rapidly system-
atiziug the information pat in hla hnodr, and
today gave your correspondent' an interesting
talk, Hla theory of the oarthqueke, Or rather
the oue which be adopts as a working theory,
is at entire varlence with the accepted opinion
hen, but aeems moot reasonable. He says:
“It is simply a seaward slip. In saying this
I assert nothing but state, what appears to bo
the moat intelligent working theory for phys
icists.” ’
“What is s seaward slip?”
“It is a movement of tbs coastal plain to
wards tho sea. Let mo sty In round- terms
that ws divldq the region this tide of the Ap
palachian tango Into two portions. The gran
ite or gneiss formation la called the Plodmont
escarpment add extends from the mountain
ranges tb start where Columbia la. The re
gion this tide of that is made npof what wo
call fragmental rock, and is called the
coastal plain. Tbc theory is that this
coastal plain has simply allppod seaward a bit,
and the displacement produced the - shock or
tremor." <
“What earned it ta slip?”
“There la a tendency In that direction. Im
agine a ehrftce: slightly inclined with this
tit/mf
The tendency of tho cc-wtal plain is towards
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that depression. Wore it boFfor thn reelat*
anco-orfrldtion this movement would be con
stant until the tendency was satisfied. In
splto of friction, however, tho coastal plain
reashes thepoint wh. ro tho pressures over-
coma ths resistanoo, and than a Blip ocean.
This may come front the readjustments of the
earth's surface constantly going on, or from
tbn fact that tba great rivers flowing out of the
mountain ranges are continually loading the
coastal plain with the deposits they bring.
In this wsy tbc point may be retched, and
doubtless baa been reached, where tho realit-
ance Is overcome, and ths forward movement
occurs.”
“Has the seaward tendency been noted be-
forty
“Oh, yee. In tho middle etatee lte work hat
been ncorded for a loog time. The movement
there hae been so gradual that there hare been
no very violent sho ts- Observations havo
been lot accurate and widespread in ths south
Atlantic states, and leas la known of the move*
“Yon have fonnd nothing dncefcomlng here
to break your theory?”
“Nothing. I may say that everything Is
confirmatory as far as I have gone. Then la
absolutely no reason to believe that voloanlsm
has anything to do with this earthqrtak-
the contrary there Is every reason to believe
it had - not. I havo beard of - nothing
that cannot be explslnod by the
theory of displacement. Tba area of
disturbance alone la a strong suggestion In
this direction. It Is perhaps tho_l*rgott aver
rooordtj ftr any earthquake. Volcanic dis
turbances areueually local, while the slip of
a coastal plain hundreds of miles In length mty
affect half a continent
1 how ha explained the twitting of
" Uroction to
the ralMad track In an opposite dli
the ellptf
io there to! refluent motion'of the
piecac . _
almost entirely throngh, and holding it at an
angle; “the .upper piece of this bread was
forced to slide off the lower.piece. If I had
cut it clear through Their would have been
no resistance except the friction, but as it is
joined together at she end, there is additional
resistance in .tba effort to tsar loose. Than
to produced * crinkling, or what we call cor
rugation. Thf
.hto reaiataurc would also increase
the Miction which pushes the earth In tha
opposite direction from which It had •lipped."
I asked how bo explained tho shocks which
tlUl continue et Summerville.
yon taka,” ho raid, “fllfty stnesra
undtlenn elastic atrlsg to them. Th<
m __ hen pull
the saucers by the suing. Yon will find the
aencetedo not follow th* elastic. 1’ullte*
steady motion. They come in jerky; altnough
yon pull with n perfectly steady hand. The
jerky motion to caused by the difference lu
what to called starting friction and sliding
friction. Tho Jerks of the esneen. rct'ly
their itopesadtlerts, would not be synchro-
nons. Lack would act indapandantly of the
other. So with every oert of the coastal plain.
In - Ttf]>0lading to the foTCo that urged it for*
ward, it went in Jerk•» or bjrfiUaud atirtj
and theca movement* are Independent of each
other, and may be more violent or Uat longer
at one point tban another.”
• Do you think tbe general movement u
over ?“
“Ido. I think tho preesuro has been satis-
fied-and that then will be quiet forperhapi a
long geologic period. Tho tendency to tbe tea
•will contlnne, howerer, and the morement
wUl continue, bnt It may be inappreciable to
the general pnblie. It is probable that no
more trcnblo will resnlt, and that the slight
abocke aovjohble here and there are the
subsiding tremors Perhaps the movement
nay be gentle hereafter In the aouth Atlantic
S2aTa. lt has bear. in the middle states.
fioroo ono snsgested that tha bine mud
ejected from tba natures and the distinct
tnlphnrcos amsU of the wnter were volcsnic
“Net St ell,” he replied. “In Florida, note-
My, and about Charleston also, there are
mineral salts auffsn'phuretsfa the overlying
beds or fragments of r-xik. Them are frequent
Kite and sulphur sprtogs end walls. This
the water
lU fortlia etitvor salphurwa teste-of
iter Ejected from unususldepths In thto
l The Woe mod to limply mud vrtleh
is found deep down In tho earth in tnls
Kgitn. It U about 3,000 foot to eolid rock in
tho slido rook is the fragmental or coastal
pliin that has suddenly been diiplsoed.
Imagine such a mass hundred! of miles iu
length sud breadth, slipping forward. Cal-
enisle tbo friction of this mars as it it broad
forward over the surface of the
bed rock, end you can form
aV> idea of tbe disturbance It makes.
Consider tbit this moving mast laetattIc,of
different thickness and composition, you •
‘ how,«
howtbo movement to lrregulaT and . ..__
finally adjusting itself after Ita dislocation,
there may be prolonged minor treason and
qoakinga in certain localities."
I asked if the granite section or the Pied
mont escarpment was not safer from earth
quakes than the coastal plain.
no replied. “Granite
“That is doubtfnl,'
conveys a tremor or vibration much .more dis
tinctly than fragmental rock dees. While
the granite is not In tbn area of displacement,
tho tremor to often sent baokward from ths
line of fault, it we ceil it. Tbe granite region
to stable and has no seawetd tendency, but as
tho cosalal plain is displaced reactionary tie
_ in the coastal re
gions at Angnata and Charleston several days
baton the displacement actually oecurra-l.
These were not felt in the granite region.
Whin the slip come, however, there wore
ticmora In the Piedmont escarpment. Them
was probably a tilting of tbe granite edge as
tbe weight of tbe coestal plain was shifted
further seaward."
Professor McGee went up to Summerville to
night, where he will nuke a close- study and
where he hit been promised the experience of
repeated shocks. He hat nude a fine impres-
linn here, and tho best local scientist and all
penal. Professor McGee says
offers the most intonating problem that has
been presented to this genontion of scientists.
Tho investigation will be exhaustive and the
publications elaborate.
Hr. C. U. Sheppard, one of the beet sclent-
tots of ths south, gave me some Interesting
points. Hs said;
dipt suddenly. The tendency of the fragmen
tal plain is to slide down tire
which it rests.
is increased by tbe deposits
of sand and gravel constantly brought into
the fragmental mass by the- rivers that flow
down from the mountains. Professor McGee
bolds that a seaward slip of this coastal plain
has taken place, and that the disturbance re
mits from sudden dislocation of an eras 900,
000 miles square and 3,000 feet thick.
HI. reasons for believing thto ere that snob
seaward movement has been taking place
steadily io tbc middle Atlantic states; and ita
proeress has been accurately noted. That no
volcanic action ever disturbed anything like
do to. That the so called volcsnlo mud
sulphurous water are simply marls and silts
or snlphurlts, released from ths layers of ths
euth by the tearing motion and forced u|
ward through suddenly made rifts. That a
tba phenomena of this earth are explicable by
the theory of the landslide, but not l>y_ tbo
volcsnic tni
eory, and that no volcanic force
having operated on this continent in thou-
sands of years, and nons being apparent now
volcsnic force cannot be taken as tbe oanss.
A gentleman said to Professor MoGss, “Ths
most remarkable pnenomenon ot the earth
quake to me to lire “kinking” of the railroad
tricks. Thto never oconrrod in an earthqnake
before. Tbe earth contracts under the trsok
is track not contracting with it to klnkod
and the
Into S shape. How do yon explain this, on
tbo land slide theory?” "Easily. Pat a slice
of bread on top of a fist piece of wood—ths
bread represents tbs fragmental earth which
When I reached home from the north my
first impression was that matters had been
very mnch exaggerated. Upon investigation
I found that tho half has not boon told. My
bonre, for example, looks all right except the
chimney. It will c
_ cost me thousands of dot
lets tomakaltsafeand decant. I confess Isee no
wsy out for Charleston. This generation will
not recover from tbo disaster. Ourjreopte
have lost tbe power of recnperatlon. Wo will
bold our pboapbato business, but there to llttlo
else wo can count on maintaining.” Touching
tho relief question Dr. Sheppard said: “lam
not capable of dealing with that. There will
certainly be great suffering, butalms-girlng to
a dangerous thing. The Ohltiaston people
have lived hr large bouses where they srs
scarcely able to live In null ones.
Tbo Charleston booses were built precisely
wrong for earthquakes. The heavy-cororlngj,
tho long ptozsas, tbe hoary columns ot me-
sonsy have shown bow unfit they tro for such
a test. Help Is needed, but I do not see just
id ‘
L queer experience.
Mr. G. W. Williams
He rays: .
■'Iwss at my ton’s houto when tha shuck
no. With his family I- jumped out of a
window. It was the osly chance window over
which the dabrto- did not fall, and I would
havo been killed or injarcd bad wo
one out any other. My son’
„onse to a wreck, and will be tom down and
rebuilt. Tho five largest eburobos in Charles
ton will bo leveled to tho ground and rebuilt—
St, Michael, St. YMIfa’fc 8L Paul and _the
Unitarian and "First Pi
. rosbyterlan. Tho
trustees of St. Michael hbve determined to
replace their chnreh, stone for; stone, at It It.
Tbs
ey are looking for tho original plans of
the' architect Who- designed it 130
yean ago. bnt even hto name to fee.
gotten. The steeple is tottering, and
knowledge of lte inaid^ plana would
slat in taking it down, besides making e1<
....... „ making clear
the way to Ita reproduction. Tho Catholic
bishop baa already issued a call for hslp to
rebuild tb.fr MmrobafidrabltebalMlngaW,.
it was detirtined- todiy'relmuejror r*Ih
road tickotato all persons whowbbod to leave
the city. The mayor’a office has been besiege!
by applicants, and doable trains go oat on
every schedule loaded dewn. Mori of
tbe refugees are going to Ylril friends Or
relatives, but marry are go*”* wlthont
means or fixed destination. The crowds
hr the parks are smaller tonight, but there to
no evidence that tbe necplo are going back
Into brick honsra. A child was born on the
graze last night and tbe mother to in a etablu,
tbe only wooden building on the promisor.
Many families are living in '(tables.
Tho bozzsrds that, with- awkward
dignity, patrol ths m«ket hourer, are theouly
repreaents tho solid granite bed on whieh It
testa. Now Incline them both, and posh ths
bread off. If the friction if not great tho
bn ad will slide off easily. But suppose tho
bread is fattened to the wood at the lower
end? Then push tbe bread from the upper
end. You see it picks, compresses and corru
gates until it to mnch shorter than before. Its
snrfece cracks and contracts end bulges.
That it exactly what the elastic earth does as
it is being pushed over tho granite bed. It
packs and contracts at tho point of rosistmeo,
throbs, rebounds, cracks and bulges. Even
after tha sliding pressure to removed it
vibrates and trembles. But aa I predicted
these tremors Are subsiding, and as the
s elsstlo
took ltcertalnly hundreds and likelier thous
ands of years to acquire pressure enough to
ends or years to aoquire pressure onougn to
cants it to slip it will likely take ta loog to
start it again.” H. W. G.
Still Shaking.
CiBAitixsTOif, S. C„ September 3.—[Special.]
—A sharp shock of earthqnake was fait Just
before sleron o’clock tonight. Two buildings
fell. A white women, name unknown, was
killed by a falling wall this evening.
CnAULEsTorv, 8. C., September 4.—At 9:30
tonight another earthquake shock of about
five second's duration, the lint of tbe day,
emitted and ahook up tho peoplo. It was not
nearly as severe te the ebook last night.
showkbs or pr.nnr.ns.
The sensation today to the falliogof pebbles
in the lower pert of tho city. Tho first toll
was at half-past 7 o'clock this morning, and
tho second at abont 11 o'clock, Thoyap.
poarad to fall In a slanting dlreotlon from south
to north. There ars morsels of flint amooi
them, end all are plainly abraded and worn
by the action of water. Some few havo sharp
fractures and have evidently been recently
broken. The fact of tho fall to vouched
for by several trustworthy persons. Ths bulk
ef pebbles fell In and aronnd the Ncwi and
Cornier office.
DAMAOF. TEN MILMON DOtLAUS.
This afternoon acting Mayor Hager went
to his homo for the purpose of embracing
tho only opportunity ho has had alnoa Monday
night to rest. Ho accompanied Governor
Shepherd, who arrived early from Columbia,
over the city and pointed out the damage to
property end conenlted with him as to tho
about $30,o00 in cub bid
calved for tho sufibrere. and tbe indieatlonv
arc (hat several time* that amount would ba
fnwar-ird toon. One of the very biteet cantrl*
ballons was announced in these words by wire
from Mayor O’Brien, of Boston:
■'Draw on ua for $3,000.”
Tbs v< nerable W. W. Corcoran, .of Waiblog-
ten, sent his individual cheek for $3,000.
A reporter made a careful detour of tho city
end wee surprised to find eo mnch wrecked
property which bed before eeospqd the oyes of
S rcsa representatives. At lent four out of
vc of all buildings are danuged more or loan
unmoved by the' situation,
white the shock laeted, and
lo have foretold It by flat-
from their roosts before it was
felt.
The battery wall* are without wielbte oraok
or blemish. Over their smooth tope Fort
Sumter looks tranquilly, as If to esy, “tho
conflict that raged around my walls war
child’* play to this."
Tboica wall was not repular with outdoor
lodaert, tbroueh few off the tidal wave.
A carious pets* of Charleston's earthquako
to the entire abeence of high water. Immedi
ately after tbe .hock thbr* was an unusually
low tide and today aa unusually fall tide.
Everybody was looking fax the earthquake
all thetimef A sudden footfall would startle
a crowd. The aharp ring of a telephone
would make man jump. The- quick roll of
tho burglar alarm would empty half of tho
detka fa tha ttlegraph offlee. Tho drop Of o
piece of plastering fa a hotel would bring tha
;’*w guests running down atairs.B8trang*ra
would meat fa tha street,
“Do yon feel a shock?”
— »
“No.”
Excuse mo, I felt lik* I did.”
entirely and tha few blbhlare who venture are
careful not to call for milk shakes. Straight
whisky, slowly poured and delicately stirred,
to the thing. Tho restaurants are dosed. Ths
ceilings are hslf stripped and proprietor and
a-sisiants in light marching order. Tho fear
to universal, ever present, and harrowing.
ia uuivcfMi. met jiisnub, aun uarrueviuj.
Work fa done with hat fa hand and one
cyo kept on the nearest door.
Tho news from Summervllte continual com*
fag. Shocks have been felt there ell day and
tbe rearing, aa if heavy tuna or thunder, is
beard distinctly. Tb* village is almost en
tirely deterred, but there are peoplo still found
to tumble into every train that paemaaither
undoubtedly tha center of tha disturbance,
and Its inhabitants insist that then te some.
thing under ths earth trying to gel out.
The pruaanre of ths water and strange
looking mud on the eurfaee grows stronger,
and intelligent
that
ranetn caldron will yet be thrown off and
Tbe American volcano to re-established. Ths
shocks there late thto afternoon ware ths se
verest felt since Tnesdsy sight, Ths railroad
tracks ware again thrown from tboir bod and
travel to blocked for tha time.
Frofersor McGee may b* shaken ont of hto
Urcorydnifag tho night. In tho meantime
band on granite. Two nights on' ths
grate suffice for him, who was raised fa a bei.
Ho toogbt tho earthqnakt and found itstneke
H* heard ita rear, felt Its aigh, smelt Its
brratb, drunk ltssweat, examined Its hand
writing. and ita work, talked to Its victims,
aid desires no closer acquaintance. Charles
ton denbtlsaa has seen tba wont for tha pm-
eat. It can do nothing bnt ill ana id tha dost
of its mint la despair sad desolation and
await with composure whatever terror or hope
tbs future mav bring.
Professor McGee's theory of the earth-
quake, to generally accepted. Plainly stated.
It is that rut of the Appalachian are two gnu
formations. Tb* granite and tha fagmmtal.
The first extends frem “
tho mountains to about
Colombia; tiro latter from Cob
Tba first to tba Piedmont <
tbs
other the coastal jffalm Tb* escarpment is
granite, the plain {(made up of composite
rocks and fragments, resting oa a granite bed
■bent 3000 feet below. The granite bed that
bold* this rasas of sarth is iscllncd towards the
koMa ikh in All of c&rth I
sea, and abort one hundred ffiSe* from shots,
smag-
City Asieiior William A. Koliy says that tho
lots will readily reach $10,000,000. The taxa
ble property aggregates $-2,000,000. As the
was inhabited by 'old
who hare no surplus means, it labsliavad that
only a portion will bo rebnilt. All day there
bts been a constant rattto nnd roar of falling
Miildlnaa and old material. Beam of build-
inga are oetng torn down by tbo owners ai n
measure of safety. Hundreds of others will
not coma down until notion bus been ordered
by the city conncll. At many places ropes are
drawn across tbo attests to keep pedestrians
away from condemned and dangerous build-
log*.
Charleston, S. C„ September 4.—Ths
ebook last night caused greet alarm on ac
count of tbe (battered condition of tbe norros
of tba people. Thoao persons who had van.
lured back unier tbair roots hurried Into tha
streets, which presented for a tow minutes as
tragic in appearance aa on Tuesday night, bnt
little actual harm was don* by tba shock. Two
untenanted bout** are reported to have fallen,
together with a part of tho ooping of tho
Charliaton hotel. Tho ‘ *
^ JO vibration during tho
shock was not ocpeclally groat, bat th* moan
ing rmd howling sound wee sufficiently alarm-
1< Total Ion at Summervllte la estimated at
(300,000. _Two sllght iltecka waro reports!
today fa Charleston, but they wen not
many pusona.
Chaeleston, 8,0., September 5.—[Special.]
shock at 11:03 p. m. Itaforco wia not very
revere, Itaduratlon being abont two seconds.
Charleston. 8.C.,September 3.—Charleston
to quiet to-day^nd tho Sabbath silence to ouly
broken by tbo singing at tha different roll*
igb
plnW meetfaga, wh ich bars been held fa open
elr. Hardly a eburoh fa Charleston to consi
dered safe for occnpaney, and tbs mlnietera of
different denomination* have foe this reason
held their sarvicas fa different public parka
and in the (rounds adjoining tha churches.
THE SCIENTISTS RETURN.
party of scientists, beaded by Profsmora
Verdenball and McGee, returned tonight at
eight o'clock from an exploring trip north of
tba city. They vtoltad tho Ten mite hills,
Bnmmtrflite and Lincoln. They gin
cheering news. At Sammsrvjlte they felt
;ng that
try. Bom* strange freaks of - tha earthquake
‘ ’ ’ -but * "* ‘ ** “
buildings, and, u a consequence, the damage
to largely - -- •- —
. confined to their Interior. Of ooo
building tho foundation bad barn affected on
on* aid* to the extent that tbe structure he!
the remainder of ths foundation of both tides
of another house, ltsras found, hadparted and
shot outward, permitting ths structure to drop
to tbo ground. On many beam* on* cblmnoy
bad been destroyed and th* other left intact
A number of geytert were brand, soma ten fost
In diameter, ana
nothing has been found long
enoagh to prob* their depths. Non* are
spouting, while all are fall of water. Sum
merville has fared worts than any other part
of tba country hereabouts, end It will he ti
niest depopulated. Professors Mendenhall
and McGee take friendly Imne as to the caast
of tb* sartbqaako. Tb* latter mainUfae that
tbeyar* tbo result of land slide*, white tb*
former believes that they are tbe result of*
rcaojnnmeut of tba earth’s crust
to the basin of the earth, or a conforming oi
tbe exterior to the interior of tbe earth, and
point* to tha gtyaen si evidence that the
earth is Battling and tb* tnrfoet lowering.
Professor Mendenhtll anticipates, another
•hoik tonight, between 1030 and a. at.
when tba tide, which rises here to a height of
sir feet, is at fall flood. Ho thinks tha
weight of tha water along tho shore lias of
ChuitstoB. which is over tv* mils* fa
length, to the farmed Ufa determining power or
cants of the earthquakes; The fact of the
tide being fa, and tho pressure off tho coast
line, he says, might also prevoko a shock,
THE moVEfSOB SOARED.
Professor Mendenhall, who atndlod tho
came and effect of earthquake* in Japan for
instrument te foretel- . _
amnsement in the Charleston hotel last night.
Bines ho has felt tbe effects
be could not be induced to abandon hto room
at this hostelry. Tbe building to four stories
blah, stucco and brick, and of antiquated
architecture with Tcry high ceilings through-
eding up stain to hto room
the -
out. He was proees- _ .
when tha last shock of tho night came. The
porter, who sras showing him up, stopped
on the faint so, roach of tho sound,
and when be decided what it was, dropped
tho pitcher of water, went leap-frog fashion
over the protestor aud dashed down stain,
l'rofcnor Mendenhall did not stand upon dig
nity, bnt rushed down and into the (treat.
Later he called a carriage, and was driven to
vehicle till daylight.
other shock* are likely to oocur tonight has
revived the partially allayed fears ot tha poo-
pie, snd for at least one- mors night the open
air will bo the popular place for rofoge and
rest. Anything affording shelter from the
and then rented out aaaleeplng placet.
THX QUAKE IN 0E080IA.
Around Angusta^A Family Killed—Negroes
Banning lVUd.
The grand shake-op of Tuesday night, white
it did not do much damage in Goorgte, left be
hind it a numbor of onrloua incidents. In the
first place, Georgia to perhepi tha only stats In
the union which can famish aoonnoctfag link
between tbo great 'quakea of 1811 and 1886,
Hon, John F. King, of Augusta, a young man,
wta 'possum hunting In ths wilds of Ken
tucky, acoompantod by several of his Slavs*.
When the great shake camo he abandoned the
chase, and that'possum died a natural death,
TIIW ORIGINAL ’QUAKE.
Dodge county claims the honor of having
originated the present;**!thqnske. The dwel
ling bouse of Mr. “Woot” Parker, In Pond
lltljt 1IVUID Vi Mis If wws 1MUT, 1U i UUIt
Town district, had caused considerable excite
ment among the people of ths neighborhood.
' to an unpretentious one, and to built
Tho homo . „
of hewn logs. Three weak* ago, without any
apparent canse whatever, the building com
menced to ibake, and tho occupants rushed
out, think fag It was going to fall, but It didn't.
It continued to aheke, however, for about two
hours. Tbscnpaon tbo tablo ware turned
over, the clock on the mantol was stopped,and
fa fact nearly everything in ths house was
thrown Into disorder. Since that time the
hour* his bean shaking at intervals of about
two hours, and Mr. Parker and family are
completely at a lees to understand tbe cause.
Very naturally they communicated the news
te tbelr neighbors, bnt every ono took It aa a
huge joke] and paid very ltttle attention to
-tbe matter. Mr. Parkor Insisted that it was
on them to come aud
irown, D. C. Cravey, J. 0; Pearson and J. 0.
Hillfoid. There gentlemen soon bad to va-
nrght came, it brongt
of Mr. Parker’s sensation.
In Perry, tho ivindowa of the honses rattled,
as iftbs panes would be shattered; the furnl.
fare seemed Imbued with noisy life, and it ap-
izen went out with hto gun, am
object that be thought was a retreating bur-
glar. Another wentoutand “chunked’ bricks
under the bouse to route tho buralars hs
thought wore there. Coin bellowed, chickens
cackled, and tbo disturbance was altogether
frlghtlul,
THEY SAW THE RODY HOVE.
The earthqnake cwme near breaking up an
lnqneit cn Hutchinson’s Island. Ciptslo
Dixon bad crossed over to ths island to inves
tigate tbe death of Cyrus Campbell, an old
negro who was fonnd dead in a cabin there at
neon. The death was sadden and no ono sma
present, eo tbs coroner concluded to tnmmon
Philadelphia, arrived in Savannah Wednesday
at d brought another report to be-added to th»
longllst. Tho ship in* steaming along off
Cbarleaton with imooth sea shortly
before 10 o’clock. Suddenly, at
S 50 marine time, the ship began to thump aa
lough she ware going over a bed of rock*.
Tbrffshock was savers and so unexpected that
every one thought she had itraek oa
a] rock or a sunken wreck. Cap
tain Smith ordered ths load put
out immediately, and bo found hs had ten
fathoms of water under hto ship’s bottom.
When the tblp began to rock there
was]| no commotion of any importance
observed in tbo tea. Captain Smith
and hto crew were nonpiuaaed. Some thought
that] a boiler bad exploded; and there was a
stampede down below to investigate. Ia a mo
ment or tvro everything lu tho engine room
11 right, Scarcely was that re
port announced whan there came a second
shook. The first had lasted a minutoandtho
steamer bad veered out of hcrooarao two
points to the southward,
AN lAUREST PHAYIS.
John Clemons, a deacon oi tha colored Bap
tist church in Barncsvllla. was praying in tho
search when tbc chock of the csrthqnsko was
felt last Tuesday night. Tbo congregation
devoutly kneeled white the trumpet vote* of
tbe deacon area directed toward heaven. Tba
deacon said: “Good Lord oome down aa’
bress dl Chilians. Bring on do tlmo whoa
Jesus am a cornin'. Good Lord come an'take
AI Chilians borne. Hasson do time when you'll
take ua all from dto world ob sin and sorrow.’’
About this time tbs earth began to ahake and
tba ohureh to rook to and fro. Terror .spread
instantly through the oongrsgatlon. The
deacon,perhaps, as wall as othors, thought tho
Lord had received hto prayer fa earnest and
was about to answer fa tba. atm* way, Tho
good deacon Jumped ap fa tho midst or hla
prayer and several benches were knooksd
over fa the escape from tbo church.
Several ladles In Jonesboro cams
fainting, while a negro woman near Lovsjoy
who was sitting up with a eorpso wont tato
convulsions, and a general atampoda fallowed
with tho rest of tb* oomptny. Bsv.
Aaron Cloud had j oat doted Berries* at Beths',
and bad dwelt atsome length on aartirqoakca,
aa tba shock was fall. Th* bout* to a wooden
Bcv. Mr. Wood aiksd thocauioof
bsace. Charley Whaley said that It was a
route tied to tho ooratr ot tho houce, Nas
Norton add it was a dog uadar a benob, white
John Ward thought It was aom* one outetdo
rattling tho wfador
tiftkftfeJ 1
. onr, and raid, “I’ll atop that
raoket,” and oaugbt tha window, bat to no
avail; wbereopen John yelltd, “Earthquake?”
THE NIOHT IN OOLUMRUS.
A dad* weighing ninety pounds, who was
fared shoes snd a package of clgarettea, said)
"I wis visiting a little lady. She to a seven-
tean-ycar-old lictrccs, and somehow her old
father doesn’t think I’m a auooess. I don’t
know whora he got the Idas. Ho will taka
these strange notions. Wall, hs has intimated
that my visits to bis daughter do not ontbuss
him, and that I ought to atop. Hs la a big
man—vary big.- Holt nearly* yard wide if
hs ain't ‘all wool.’ I Imagine ho would kick
a men so aa to make him tors, If ho got mad.
Wall, when th* shock cam* I thought It wa*
my prospective ftthor-ln-law coming to assault
roe. The girl stroked my hand and hair aud
told ms to ‘not ba afraid,’ but I couldn't. I
fait relieved when I found It was only an
earthquake.”
A mlddla-sged man raid: "My wife and I
and lain down when tho shook came. It wta
shelf, and the old boy waa to pay generally.
But my wife and I never moved.”
take seals In ths cabin. Dsvld Moore,
r darkey, waa tho only witneaa. Ho began
tilling bis evidence snd had got abont down
:othc time when Campbell waa last seen,
when tbe cabin commenced to rattle. “There
abo gocoagaln,” the witness said. Hla oye*
bum huu mmuj amu* uii vjom
grew double tbo ordinary lire and hs started
tor tho door, leaving hla evidence half
finished. The Juror nearest tho door waited
abont half a second and he gave a leap ont.
Th*other Jnrort gave ono glance at tha corpse
and they raw It move. That was enough for
them, and they want out fa a bnneh, tearing
tbo coroner and the corpae to finish the in*
quest. A good deal of ponuaalon waa required
togetbls jurors back after tho qnlrtr was
ovtr. Finally they were got togothor and
Moor* was induced to toll tho rut that ho
knew.
I nojury fa the Gilbert Davis ease, fa Fist*
man, were fa their room at tbo omrthouso,
nnabls to agrat; and, it to laid, Ultra war no
probability of tbelr arriving at a vordlct.
After tba earthquake was over they agreed fa
about three minutes.
Mr. A. F. Flint, of Savannah, related an ex-
periment which bn mada. After tha flnl
■over* shock ho tied his knlh to a string and
fattened the other snd of th* string to a
stationary object. During subsequent shocks,
modic motions fans east tow;
This may possibly bo dno to tho giving way of
tho Umbers of tbs house more fa out direction
proof fast the shock came from
Ono lady fa Jackson county threw open tha
front door and fired a gnn, and waa walking
the floor with another gnn fa bund whan bar
husband camo home. A gentleman walked
burglars, A colored mtu, who is no profanor
of religion, called to those collected about hint
to pray without ceasing, l’eopto fa tba conn-
try were alto excited.
It it reported fa Griffin that a leading conn,
sailor fa the prohibition contest rushed from
bit home Into the middfa of tho retd in a
single r.ethcr garment and yelled to hla wife
tba bonis up with dynamite.
Tho population or Gordon county, within n
idfas of flvo miles of Calhoun, has been in
utile babot
shake, on Tuudsy
saw th* negro man
lata making diligent
with n light. In an
il
s what hs wu dolor,
omabody
king for sc
hla noose.”
Iona end demonstra-
rad abont the tlur*
Just retired to l>sd,
fa a number of tham,
nt Into the streets o?
meant fitted for par-
tblbltlons were mors
. A gentleman of tbe
i windows rattla, and
to hto back door, pis-
the weapon to aura
mother house fa tho
wore alarm*! by a
windows and n
i and ran to tiro door,
ipon waa not lotdod.
noarii
ring hto remark
Indow tro, and I hit
stick of wood, but h*
ret eeenrrM wl'h n
wills. Anns Antho*
of Mr. T.C. Banks,
^ to milk tka cow.
Iren ring
and caughton th*
r.fafrlxht, attempted
ig by the cow caused
thasib*(haa>h had So be amputated.
nioltoriapWp Dews* Chptato Smith, ftqa
“Why didn’t yon?” said somebody.
“Because,” said ho, “we thought all th*
tine that it waa only Tnrnar’a pills. An antthr
quake that prowls abont my ranch will b:tvo
to bo labeled to be recognised.”
A slender man, who to a merchant, sal-1: “I
(ell you, about this osrtb-i-iako, everybody has
a theory as to lte origin, Here's mlno: Tho
rabavogono on with thslr- high-
itrtgoa sud cvploaloni,disgracing tbo
and tho human race,until at last Old
bandedoutn
continent »r
Master np fa heaven coneludod to show ’oar
what sort ofs dynamiter HeoouIdbowhonllO
turned Hit hand to it. Bodld.too.”’
Savannah, On., August 31.—About D:30
o'clock tonight, this city was visited by a very
severe shock of earthquake, which wss fol
lowed at Intervals of two or three mfautaa by
four others. Feopla fa every part of tha dty
wore thoroughly torrlflod and rushed from
tboir bonow into tbo streets and sought opoo
squares snd other places, where they would
bo out of danger of falling bulldlago. Tho
r-tgroca were particularly demonstrative aud
ran about th* streets wringing thslr bands
tod giving vent to exclamations of terror.
Savarel chirm
fared other damage of a almilsmaturo. Clocks
' snd lamps and omamsnte shaken
s stopped r
from tables and mantels.
TIN SHOCKS IN AUODSTA.
Auodsta, a*., August 31.—A severe shook
of esrthqnako was fait here at 0 o'clock tc-
nlghl, followed at Intervals by fourdlsUnot
jars, reoplo rushed Into th* streets and tho
principal thoroughfares are now filled with
frightened people. Tb* town la wild with
excitement. The ebooke contlnuo. Signal
Officer Williams reports ten distinct shocks at
9:31,9:33,9:39,10:00. 10:01,10:17. lOffil, 10:37,
10229; 10.31 and 10:13, seventy-fifth meridian
time*
Atot'STA, Ga .September 1.—[Spoclal.1—In.
vacillation today developed the full extent of
the damage by the eartbqoek*. Sbockecou-
liens to be felt here. Ths most revere dam-
ana
MOST PERFECT MADS
’owdDr contain*
nt*<*. Dr.tVlcrtB
-ror deliclotuljr. .
Juljlt—diirkyly top col nrmorfolrfasp
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MpiUdAwlre
tg* wu don* on Urs rend bills fa Georgia, and
fa Alhfa county, South Carolina. At Lxoiriey
tha reran hundred dams have been broken,
tho Bcuth Carolina railroad washed away and
leas of Ilfs antallsd. An eagfa* waa ditched
and the fireman and snalnrer killed. A mix
ed train wont down at Hi
on* ciecka with! a i
few" miles of AnguUs, end th* finnan was
killed, and tbs hones fa two stook cart war*
drowned. This train to entirely tabmarged.
It to reported that revanl negroes bar* boen
drowned along Hone creak, and a horseman
Just fa reports tb* finding of
THE nODIKt or A WHOLE FAMILY
fa a stranded bouse. At tba United Bute* tr.
tension the sand hills fa Georgia nesrhore,
the residences of Captains Grreltoh
_ __ and Bltey,
U 8. A. were badly wracked, ami are unfa.
habitable. From Bath, Uopzibah, Blchmood,
tbo paper mills, Sharon and every town *<il*-
•aul to Augusta,come fa report* of a (aural
shaking up, but barring rumor, th* dretruc.
t inn or property and a law broken limbs, th*
Iocs Is Insignificant.
At Bath a negro woman was crated with
lounttousd on roustU Psga-1 ~
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