The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-09-09

alities, II Is impossible TO give details.
Many OF the dead, It is believed, are yet
buried in the debris, and no regular relief
parties have been organized to recover Their
bodies. Unfortunately the Mayor Of the
city Is now In Europe and his place is In
differently filled. The Chief OF Police, too.
IL seems, is unable to meet the emergencies.
i1:45 T.. M.-Repeated shocks OF earth
quake OF a mild character are passing 10 the
west of the city. A rumbllng noise can be
heard distinctly, but no disturbances are felt
here The whole population is awake and
the c0lored folks are engaged In religious
exercise. Among the white people II Is gem
orally thought that the crisis Is over. IL will
be understood how impossibleitIs Is TO furnish
figures relating 10 loss OF life when II Is
known that all the streets are blockaded and
travel through the debris Is impossible ex-
cept with great difficulty and apparent peril.
At this moment another rather severe
shock has just passed over the city, toppling
over number OF houses
One OF the fires last night was started at
yandervoort and King streets soon after the
shock. Ten dwellings at least were con,
sumed. Fortunately the weather was calm
and this addition 10 the horror was In some
respects averted. Another serious fire oc-
CURED OIL the corner OF George and ST.
Phillips streets. There was much difficulty
experienced by engines In reaching the
scene, and the people, white and black,
formed fire brigade and fought the flames
with buckets OF water.
IA. M.-The latest obtainable estimate OF
the casualties Is from thirty TO forty killed
and one hundred wounded. At this hour
all is comparatively quiet.
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five o'clock yesterday afternoon caused
great CONSERVATION here. One lady was
frightened into commissions and died from
the effects. Everybody stayed out of doors
last night. AS many as can do so VIII leave
town at the first opportunity.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Sept. 2.--The shocks
which occurred about midnight last night
were general throughout Georgia and South
Carolina.
ATLANTA. Ga, Sept. 2.-There were two
additional shocks after the first one at nine
O. clock Tuesday night One occurred at
midnight and the other at four o'clock
Wednesday morning. Neither was so plainly
felt as tile first one but they served to make
everybody In town seepless, and when the
day broke people gathered to relate their
experiences. The meager but startling news
from Charleston was received early In the
morning and caused much apprehension.
The papers published extras at frequent In
teftals Al five o'clock there was another
slight shock and the fears which had some
what abated were again aroused, but no
damage was done There was a general In
spection OF houses here yesterday and sew
eral were pronounced unsafe. Last night
committee OF citizens left for Charleston TO
render whatever aid they could TO the I'M
fortunates there. Dispatches from all over
Georgia state that the shocks felt here were
noticed throughout the State, but no serious
damage Is reported.
BEAuFoRr, S. c.. Sept. 2.-The earth
quake shock was felt here at $3.50 and was
very severe In fact there were several
shocks at intervals OF about five minutes.
In all there were fifteen. most of them, ex-
cept the first, being slight. The first shock
knocked chimney tops down, shook pictures,
stopped clocks aud drove people in fright
from their houses The shocks which fol-
lowed kept the people in a terrible state OF
alarm. At about 4:30 Wednesday morning
there was another quite severe shock Peo-
pie did not return to their houses after the
first tremor, but spent the night in the fields
and streets. The negroes were nearly crazed
and the whites were badly enough fright.
ened. There has been great excitement and
apprehension all day.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Sept. 2.-The earth
quake shocks here, commencing about $3.50
o'clock Tuesday night lasted several min
utes. Several slight shocks were felt later
In the night When the quaking first be-
gan men, women and children rushed into
the streets, where many remained until day
light The negroes were terror stricken.
The Bryan street church (col0red) was
badly cracked, and the plasterlng falling
upon the congregation assembled within
caused terrible scene OF confusion. Many
negroes thought the day of judgment had
come. In another church where there was
religious gathering panic and stampede
followed the first shock, and several persons
were trampled and severely injured. Very
little damage other than the cracking walls
and the falling OF plaster Is reported In this
city, and no lives were lost.
Nearly every building in the city was
more or less damaged and nine tenths OF
the people are sleeping out of door.
WASHINGTON, Sept 2.-Major Powell,
Director of the United States Geological
Survey, furnishes the information that OBJ
servations at Washington showed the direc-
ton of the shocks of earthquake Tuesday
night to be very little north Of east and
the vibrations from 115 TO 100 per minute.
This earthquake, like earthquakes in gen.
eral, is attributed to internal disturbance re-
sulting In contraction of the earth's crust
The occurrence OF earthquakes In tho east
ern portion of the United States is attributed
TO geologic facts, which are being carefully
studied, and which indicates that in Georgia
and the Carollnas. Virginia and northward
there is a seaward tllting of the surface, un-
questionably connected with subterranean
movements 1t may be questioned whether
there has ever been general movement on
any part OF the earth's surface much more
energetic or rapid than that now taking
place along the Atlantic slope, and the com
parative immunity from serious earthquakes
is due more to the less profound depth OF
this great displacement and the absence of
volcanic vents than to the absence Of great
earth movements
Know-NothinG Lodges still In Existence.
CHICAGO, Sept Lit has just been dis
covered that there are, in Englewood, three
Know Nothing lodges of the principles OF