The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-26 00:00:00

THE TELEGRAPH IN OPERATION.

At an early hour this morning the telegraphic machine
which has been stationed for a month past in a bombproof
in the second parallel, was removed to Fort Nap,
°Tit'', and
the line advanced to that point by Lieut. Pane,of the Signal
corps. The following message from Lieut.-Colonel Mann,
of the 39th Illinois Volunteers, was the first transmitted
from the new station:
United
the
South,S tat e
s Fort Mil i t avr, Military Tele Se ae
pp ht
~
7, DeParttn ent of
8.20 a.m.
To General Gilmore—The general officer of the trenches
sends his compliments and congratulations to the Command-
ing General from the bombproof of fallen Fort Wagner. His
confidence in God and General Gilmore is unshaken.
Colonel MANN,

Affecting Incidents During the Earthquake
at Manilla,

I was so much bruised that I made my way very
slowly. At last, finding I was K becomin_
exhausted,
I sat down on a heap of rubbish which, as far as I
could make out from the appearance of the frag-
ments, had once been a church--Ss indeed it had
the same been, and one
catas-
trophe. I tried my utmost to shut out the sound of
the screams and groans which fil:ed the air all night
by tying my handkerchief tightly Oyer my ears;
of ten destroyed by
possible to sleep,and
but I found it impossible
sun rose I got up, stiff and Weary, and made my
way towards a group of men aad Women who were
assembled about a heap of ruins, the magnitude of
which enabled me to recognise
them as the remains
all
of the cathedral. Of sights on that dreadful
morning, there Was none which equalled this. The
service in the cathedral not only began later than
in the other churches, but was longer, so that while
those who had attended the latter had for the most
part left them, the whole congregation was present
The
in the former. earthquake Was so sudden, that
probably not a dozen Persons escaped out of the
building before it came crashing down, burying
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every one of the two or three thousand persons
within it beneath its heavy roof and massive walls.
When I reached the ruin; men and women were
already working at those parts where appearances
indicated the possibility of must speedily
reaching bodies. The largest group was col-
lected round a chapel, a small portion of which
was upheld by the peculiar way in which a
beam bad fallen. Women were sobbing, and
men were listening anxiously at a small opening
where a window had formerly been. Seeing I was
a foreigner, the Spaniards and Indians, with the
politeness they invariably practise, made way for
me, and I approached
. close to the opening. Faint
groansissued from it, and I could hear a voice—
that of a girl, I thought, but it turned oat to be one
of the choristers--asking piteously for help and
deliverance. Then a low but deep bass voice, doubt.
less that of the priest who was officiating at the
time of the calamity, uttered the well-known words
II Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. Yea,
saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours."
As these words came forth, those outside burst into
a passion of tears, which was soon choked, in order
that they might hear if the voice spoke again.
There were some deep groans, apparently wrung
from the speaker by intense pain, and then the same
voice spoke in a calm and even tone as though ad-
dressing a Congregation : "For the Lord himself
shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archeingel, and with the trump of God."
Silence followed for some • minutes, and then a deep
voice came forth which was so low that only I and
a few others near the hale could hear it : " Father,
into thy hands I commend my spirit," and with the
utterance of those words of faith and prayer the
spirit must have left the tortured body, for not a
sound was heard after this, except the piteous
prayers of a child. Being too weak to assist is the
efforts that 'were making to enlarge the opening, I
left the spot with a sad heart —Dickens's "All the
Year Round,"

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