The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-09-08

THIRTY PEOPLE KILLED.
Fully a Hundred wounded and $fo,-
900. 900 of Property Lost
a NIGHT OF AWFUL HORROR

100000 OF LOST
A NIGHT OF AWFUL HORROR
Aqonizinq scenes in the Thoroughfars Of the
Ruined City.
s-sprEMBEk. :. lsse.
Reports from more than a hundred points
within the area embraced by the Gulf Of
Mexico. the great lake.. the Mississippi river
and the Atlantic Ocean show thai o 10
O'Clock on Tuesday night all this vast terri
tory Wa shaken by the tremors Of the earth's
crust. The litiable and eIigrosssing narra-
tive i that which comes from Charleston
:. C., and tells of the destruction Of three
fourths Of the city, the loss Is from thirty 10
f,rty lives. the manning Of over one hundred
pers.41s and the obIiteration of from 5000
oy to sI0.0eo.eoo womb or property. Three
fourths Of the buildings in the city viii have
L. be- rebuilt. There was no tidal wave and
consequently no damage 10 shipping. The
city j. cut of from all communication by
rail with the outside world. and the terrors
Of the situation were increased by another
shock at rs last night, which knocked
down several houses.
EXTENT OF THE HocEs
Tie seisnSr disturbances Of Tuesday night
were felt with more OF less severity in Miss
issippi. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina. Tennessee. Ken
lucky. Virginia. West Virginia, Maryland,
Delaware. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New
York. Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin.
Iowa. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Mas
sachusetts. On the extreme northeastern
and northwestern boundaries of the move
ment the shocks were 81 slight AS to be
scarcely sppreciable, seeming to have spent
their force about Boston on one side and
Dubuque on the other. The elimination OF
their action was in the vicinity Of Charles
ton. :. C., where the only loss of life and
the most serious destruction of property oc-
CURED. Elsewhere the earthquake was no
more than violent enough to topple Chin
neys. cause fssures in walls, ring bells, move
furniture. rattle crockery and throw many
communities into a panic.
Next to Charleston the most serious effects
were felt at Sumnierville. :. c.; Columbus,
:. c: Augusta, Savannah and Raleigh, n. Z.
While there was no fatal results. except at
Charleston and summeryille or the inme-
date neighhorhood, the shocks in the other
towns named fell just short of causing DIES
tnlction Of human life. The scenes of alarm
- r.-tfr from
nothing less than a mysterious and dreadful
CONFUSION of nature. Whole communities
spent the night in horror fear that each
shock might be succeeded by another that
would bring to them sudden and violent
death. and tine Geographic reports tell of
thousands of men and women unnerved
with dread and frantically calling upon the
aid Of a Supreme Power.
OTHER PLACES SHAKEN Up
From very many points the reports are
similar. AT Raleigh. y. G., there were ak
shocks between 80 z. NJ. and $50 A. NJ
At Newberne. y. C., buildings were violent
IN shaken for 4 minute. At Fayetteville,
y. C.. buildings were violently shaken for a
minute. At Fayetteville. y. C., four shocks
were noticed and the same number at Ashe-
vile. The disturbance was general through
out Southwestern Virginia and Eastern
Tennessee. AT Macon, Ga, the last shock
occurred at 40 A. NJ.
Around ST. Louis the suburban towns
were violently SHAKEN. At Murphysborough.
H.. the bell on the Court House kept up II
ringing for two minutes. At ~Nicksburgh.
Miss, the City Council was in session, and
the City Hall, a very frail building. construct
ed on high brick pillars, under which is
the city market, was made To rock SO that
the board adjourned suddenly and uneere-
~moniously. There was no loss of life and
no great damage done at any of these points.
cHARLEsroS's CALAMITY.
CHARLEsroS. September 1.-The morning
dawned upon a city swept and SCARED 10y
the earthquakes of last night worse than II
had been by the fierce storm of war that
beat upon ii for four years. Scores of its
citizens were known to be killed, but nobody
could even approximate the number. The
whole population had passed a night OF
agony. the pangs Of which may never be
told. They had spent it in the streets.
among the ruins of fallen buildings, with
the noise of crushing walls and the roar of
the swollen waters filling their ears when
they were free from the calls for help tina
came from the manned victims and the
cries of distressed women and children vain
ly seeking their protection. To d 10 the
horror of those awful hours fire broke out
and some twenty houses were consumed.
The first shock did most of the damage.
1t was felt at $50 local time. In every
house in town men and women were thrown
prone upon their faces. When they recover
ed they rushed for the streets, which in "A
few seconds were filled with a mob demon
allied by terror. Hundreds gathered in
groups to offer up prayers while ON every
side they sobbed out, my God, save u.s.
God have mercy upon rs, miserable sin
nersir Then came the next shock and
shrieks rent the air. Cooler heads thought
Of rescuing the people imprisoned in the iai-
len houses. Even women armed with
haichets fought ~valiantly to rescue the inn
priSpned uniortunates, while the groan> Of
-ba .Itipu, prc,..I tb.m an ~ rupauad ON