The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-05-30


{NOI4. 2. NO. 81
almost every house thore we're vic.
TINS either killed or wounded, or
both. Fortunately the hour was
early. Had it been two hours later.
when the majority of people would
have been in bod, it would have
been much more dreadful. For
tunately, also, the d,y and
evening had been extremely hot,
and many people were out trying to
catch little coolness in the open
parks, and SO wero preserved.
THE CATHEDRAL WRECKED.
One gentleman who was in the
park says he WAS looking at the
cathedral and admiring it's architec-
tural beauty, when suddenly it
seemed to rise straight up in the
air, rs If about ascending to heaven,
and, being thrown clear off it's
foundations, it fell forward to the
ground in one mass of ruins Not
q stick or stone Of the noble edifice
remains IN place. It is O. total
wreck.
The river Tui, running through
the city, had been, they say, so hot
that all day they had been unable
to drink its water; and the fishes
had been obs .rved to be very
uneasy, jumping frequently out Of
the water, where they apparently
were being mado uncomfortable by
its heat. On the banks of the
stream great fissures were opened
which became flied with water that
gave forth such Il stencil that peo~
pie who had encampeu on it's banks
were obliged to leave the vicinity.
Small hillocks Of sand we're thrown
up in different spots, having the
same smell. Nearly all the coffee
and sugar plantations for several
miles around Qua have been serious-
ly damaged. The other towns
lying near Qua have all been more
or less injured, but forum ltely no
lives have been lost. It is believed
that in no other place lives have
been lost.
POPULAR TERROR.
During Holy Week we had i'm
pressive ceremonieAin the churches,
with professions in the streets, at.
tended with all the pomp and
splendor which the church knows
SO we'll how to display. Beautifully
ornamented platforms filled with
flowers and ribbons, and wreaths Of
tinsel and hundreds Of candles
were carried from church to church,
and on the different platforms we're
life size figures Of Our Saviour and
His Cross and the N1ugdalen.
Others represented the Virgin,
others tho apostles and other holy
personages. Soldiers in full uni-
form followed them all, and music
and banners, incense and chanting
priests and squeaking fiddles and
thousands of bareheaded worship-
pers. Well, in ono of these pro-
cessions q woman became frighten-
ed and screamed. The people
thought it was an earthquake and
made a rush. In the scramble
many fell and were injured, and it
is said ono person was killed. The
President issued al order to stop
the professions and close the
churches till the 28th. TO crown
the popular terror prophecy has
just been published that in April,
June and October Of this year we
are to have terrible destruction Of
property, with appalling loss Of
life all over South America. In
referring to this prediction people
lluyh, but their blanched checks
throw a shade of incredulity over
their nerriment. They are an (
excitable people, and especially on
thiG subject of earthquakes are
they oasily wrought into terror, as
seems quite natural, when they
see on all sides around them the
ruined houses and walls, enduring
of the awful calamity
which boreayed and wrecked their
city in 1912.
ANOTHER SHAKE. u#r
We had another earthquake here
yesterday at about nino, O. M, DUR
ing services in church. 1t drove
the WOrshippors out in @ rush.