Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-04
Early Evening Dispatches.

that the railroad tracks were thrown out o1 level. A prominent real estate agent sayf that while some of the wooden buildings are habitable under fair circumstances, most o1 them are badly wrecked, aud that there if scarcely safe brick building in the city The same gentleman estimates the loss and damage of real and personal property al from ten to fifteen millions. This morn. ing the patients were removed from the City hall to the Agricultural hall, where they are being made comfortable as possible. Nc more deaths or new cases were reported dur ing the morning. There are now in the hos pital one hundred and nineteen patients, one hundred of whom are there suffering from injuries sustained Tuesday night About half of them were bruised by falling build ings and the others are prostrated by the ex- citement. The bulk of the earthquake suf- fererf are being cared for at their homes. There is considerable sickness among the children which results from exposure and stopping out of doors at night. "Earth- quakiana" is the name suggested for little one brought into the world few hours be- fore the great upheaval. Mother and child, it may be said, are doing well, notwith- standing the fact that they are auartered in Washington Square. The police are quar- tered in the main station stables and have purchased dozen new halters with which to secure prisoners.
 A gentleman advances the theaIy that it is & burning mari bed under the disturbed DOT tion of the city and that it's bursting out was the cause of this trouble.
 CHARLESTON, Sept. 3.-There are citizens here o'night who claim that they felt two distinct thunderings of earthquake during this evening, but most believe such imagina- ry. At Summerville, twenty one miles south it is ascertained that there were rumblings of unmistakable earthquakes a number of times during the day. Everybody has fled from the town except the station agent and telegraph operator, and the inhabitants of the surrounding country are terrorized The reports from Summerville do not have a good influence here. On the contrary they are renewing the agitation and increasing the fear. Printers, telegraph operators and oth- CTS who are asked to work in the larger build ings comply reluctantly if they do not eefuse. Under the present pressure tele- graph service is unreliable and liable to suspension at any moment, though the Southern Telegraph company is working be- roically to keep going. Manager Harris has been working an instrument almost continu- ally since the reign of terror began. The Charleston Port society, under the auspices of which the Sailors Home here is conduct ed, this evening issued an appeal for aid. The Home was totally destroyed. Through some superstitious notion all of the tower clocks, which stopped at the first shock on Tuesday night at 9:54, have been perm itted to stand at that hour. Not single clock has been started and nearly every tower in the city has clock in it. Some of the in- habitants believe if the clocks were put in operation another shock would occur. In the hotel the globes on the west side of the chandeliers were displaced. Scarcely any of the globes were broken, however. They were jostled from their position and hung by the wires which surrounded and held them. The scientists explain this by saying it was the rebound of the earthquake. The deaths from injuries by the earthquake up to 10 o'clock tonight increase the list to 52 from 3S, the number of dead last night. Most of these are colored people. This af- ternoon the Charleston Cotton and Produce exchanges issued an address to the commer- cial men of the country setting forth that Charleston is fully equipped for business. They ask Congress to loan the citizens $15,- GOO, 900 with which to rebuild. One hun dred tents are expected to arrive from the war department tomorrow, but they will be fully five hundred short of the requirements. The Secretary of War is requested tv send a government engineer here to inspect the buildings and ascertain the needs.
 The damage at Summerville is ascertained to be $300,0 All of the Roman Catholic churches and school buildings there are de- stroyed and services on Sunday will be held in the squares. Another shock was felt at Sullivan Island this evening and the tide is up so high that a tidal wave is feared There are between five thousand and six thousand people refugees on Sullivan Island and fears are entertained that they may be submerged in the event of tidal wave coming.
 Collections in the Treasury Depart ment-Distress in Sum mmerville-Ad- ditional Particulars From Various Sources.
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