Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-03
News by Telegraph | FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE RUINED CITY. People Still Encamped In The Streets.
 SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD. Loss Estimated From Five
 To Ten Millions. THE IyDIAkA REPUBLICANS. A Sound Declaration off
 Principles.
THE INDIANA REPUBLICANS,
A Sound Declaration of
 Principles.
RUINED CHARLESTON.

I
 H. CHARLESTON, September a. Telegram sent here last night could uot be delivered ol
 account of the general confusion, the peop1 i, being camped out Every effort is beini : made to deliver them this morning. W,
 hope to have telegraphic communication fair s' ly re-established to-day.
 l, The main office of the Western Union Tele
 graph company here was badly injured. Tn, j. batteries were destroyed and all the instru
 ments ruined by falling bricks and plaster
 An office has been opened about a mile and
 half from the old one and two wires have
 been placed in working order. None of the r company's employees were seriously injured , At five o'clock this morning all the operators
 were compelled to quit their posts and seek t some rest. The excitement has been so great s that for forty-eight hours they had obtained
 no sleep.
 No paper was issued to day and no busi- ness houses are open. Residences and hotels are still deserted. The people are scattered
 around in vacant lots all over the city. Eff
 forts being made to bring about some-
 thing like order to-day.
 1 Teiegrams sent by out of town friends to
 friends and relatives here are piled up in the
 telegraph office, it being impossible to de-
 liver them owing to the evacuation of their
 houses by the people and their scattering
 throughout the city.
 There were many piteous scenes enacted
 throughout the night. Hardly anyone slept, l and the walls and cries of the affrighted
 children, they clung to their parents be-
 seeching them to save them, were heartrend- | ing. Added to these were the groans of the
 wounded and dying, who, owing to the de- l moralzation, lay almost wholly uncared for 1 in the open lots and streets. Il A. M.-The people are just beginning to pick up courage to come out. Efforts are being made to clear paths through the streets | for the passage of vehicles and pedestrians and the city once more begins to show some signs of life. It is impossible to give any correct estimate of the loss of life and prop erty. The first systematized effort to get at 1 facts is now being made. The list of dead | recognized and reported this morning at this | hour foots up sixteen, and the search. has | only begun. The lis. of wounded will go | into the hundreds. About seven -eighths of | the houses and the public buildings in the | city are either damaged wrecked.
 1 P. M.-Scarcely building in the city es- | capped injury. The Western Union Telegraph office, which was in one-sto1y bank build ing, is described unsafe, and temporary of
  damage to property is now estimated at about $5, 900, 900.
 Dispatches to the News and Courier from points in South Carolina, ranging from ex- treme northwest to the sea coast, report se- I were shocks of earthquake, with more or less resulting damage to property, ~though with out loss of life so far as known. In Grange burg people became so much alarmed that many moved to Columbia.
 As the details of the calamity in this city l gathered it's effects become and | more alarming. It is feared, also, that much distress will prevail, since by far the larger part of those whose property has been wrecked or seriously damaged belong to the poorer classes People are cheerful as possible under the terrible circumstances, and are trying to restore order out of chaos. | The aggregate loss is expected to reach $3, | 000, ,000. The wharves, warehouses and bus mess facilities of the city are generally unaf fected by the catastrophe, and Charleston is ready ever for the transaction of busi- ness.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-A despatch to the United Press from Sumter, s. O., says: Tuesday night several shocks of earthquake were felt in this town and county y.,,+ 4 +ho shocks reeurred occasionally Itgefe tgefsee damaeed M lIi, night several RR6mn tRqR6m the county also show shgnsiy. sh n He#as Was done to several buildings 'i4ss CHARLESTON, s. O., Sept. 3, 8 p. m.-Fo1- lowing is the official list of those killed by the earthquake, or that have thus far died ! l from the injuries:
 White-Peter Powers, Mrs. c. Barber, f Ainsley H. Robson, Robert Alexander, i Charles Aldrecht, B. P. Maynardie, Patrick l Goldie Aherns. a
 Colored-Thomas Wilson, William Dean, c Anna Glover, z. Sawyer, William Grant, C Alexander Miller, Joseph Rodoff, Hannah 1 Smalls, Mary Barnwell, Maria Pinkney, James 8 Brown, Angelic Davidsons, Eugenie Roberts, ! T Robert Rodoff, Grace Fleming Rosa Murray, t Oliver Nickelby, John Cook, Clarissa Si f monds, Hannah Harris, Sarah Middleton and c Rebecca Ward. s
 There may be few more. Business is ( still suspended, the whole attention of the l g people being given to providing for refugees | V and making residences safe. Bricklayers have \ advanced their rates to $6 day. The city I authoritit cannot well meet to morrow to nro- vide measures for relieving the poor. Expres- sions of gratitude are heard on all sides for l the assistance offered to Charleston, of which l the suffering people will gladly avail them 7 selves. Confidence is gradually returning, but much apprehension is still felt. Continued Excitement In washington Results of Scientific Observations.
 WASHINGTON, September 2.-The earth g quake is the only topic in Washington. The I business in the departments since the shock t of Tuesday night has been performed in the V most perfunetory manner. Many of the c southern men who have relatives in Charles t ton are greatly distressed "because they have l not been able to hear from them. The as- sistant secretary of the treasu.y, MT. Thomp- 8 son, is supposed to be there, but nothing has g been heard from him.
 It is said that there were two slight addi- tional shocks here yesterday, but they were not generally noticed. Lt
 The leading scientists here have no infoF ot nation to give in addition to that furnisssei- h by Major Powell the director of the Ge~eSt e. c, cal Survey. The latter has given rann,oaLes rann a1 tention of late years to oa~a.nment oa,Sat n scientists. and he thAks that his theory as 5o ~ ~ their cause and co.rse has beeh susLalneu: He greatly fears that the Atlantic c1as' mus heneefortb he considered withlr tne ear'n ouata reoioa. He says that curious as II nav seers, more reports of esitnquakes @ nave nave & been received from New EagianG1 ea1h Inar aeo alO anr ot6er part of the country The reason ia j. he says. tsbecause there are more per sons looking for them. There are very many t .'ersons in that sect;on who have scientific t interest interest in the subject and who have plo. vided themselves with the instruments thae are best adapted to the measurement or vibrations"