Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-03
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n g., the shocks we're very severe, aud came
near wrecking several building.
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The DtrefuI Work Of she Earthquake
tbere---Many Lives LOst---at Least
RIO,OOO,OOO Of Property Destroyed.
A g, neral account of the earthquake with
the facts given above, were printed in
Wednesdays papers, aud 9olicitude was then
expressed because Of the fact that communi
cation with Charleston, s. c., had been cut
of aud il was feared that a serious disaster
had happened there. Intelligence during the
day on Wednesday showed that these fears
we're not only well grounded, but that the
disaster was far worse than bad beer thought
Of The city Of about 10000 inhabi a lts is
practically in ruins The first shock toppled
down buildings, or made them uuinhabltable,
and after that many minor shocks were expe-
rienced. The property loss In ; 10, 600 600 at
least and 90 persons are known to have been
killed. 1t il only a year ago that the city
suffered great loss from terrible tornado
The accounts which the telegraph brings OF
this terrible disaster are thus SUMMARY
DETAILS OF THE DISASTER
The first shock WAS felt approaching the
city at $50 o'clock Tuesday evening II was
accompanied 10y rumbling as Of distant
thunder, and before people could realiz
what was coming, they found themselves
thrown about III ir hCuses, which swayed
from side to side and seemed to be falling
down. Instantly there was n wild rush for
the str, cts All over the city, which were in
minute filled with human beings Graz with
fright Some rn-Led wildly about calling
upon God to have mercy on them others
knelt in groups and prayed for dellyerance
and still others retained presence Of mind
ard worked to rescue the inhabitants from
under the falling walls. Broad street pre-
scented a spectacle Of horror Women arm'
with hltchets fought vsliautly to rescue i'm
prisoned unfortunatos. To add to the horror
of the scene many fires broke out, and the
engines rushed about in vain endeavCr TO
eXtinguish the II lmes, but so many PROSTATE
buildings prevented the fires from spreading,
and they were nearly all out Wednesday.
Other shocks followed, and at 10 o'clock next
morning 10 distinct quakings had shaken the
city Another shock was felt at 5:l9 p. NJ.
The situation Of things is dreadful, worse
even, 1t il said, than when Gen. Gilmore
BON barded the city. Cut of from commun-
ication with the rest Of the world and haunt
ed by the prospect OF immediate death,
women and children are running about in the
open air greatly Rgtatcd. No trains have
departed or arrived in ~ hours aud all the
lines leading into the city are said to be Grip
Piled. 1t IL reported that all the railway
tracks are twisted like snakes. 1t Is calculat-
ed that at least three-fouths Of the city will
have to be entirely rebuilt. The city is liter
ally in ruins, and the people are living in the
open squares aud public parks. Geographic
communication is cut OF, with the exception
of one wire of the Southern company, which
is crowded with anxious private messages
Not single place OF business in the city is
open save a drug store, which il busy pre-
pairing prescriptions for the wounded 1t is
impossible also to give any correct estimate
Of the killed and wounded as bodies are con
stantly being disinterred from the debris OF
wrecked houses. Many Of the dead are ly.
ing unburied, principally tue poorer classes
Of colored people.
Thursday mornings dispatches say that Il c
loss at Charleston is now estimated at about
81, 900, 900. The number of deaths is placed
at 33, and the wounded at 100.
At Other Points in the south.
All through the South from Virginia to Mis-
sssippi the quakings of the earth caused pan
les among the people and did damage tC
buildings
Summerville, small city % mills from
| Charleston, S. c., was nearly destroyed. The
business part of the town is in ruins. Many
people are reported as killed by the falling
| walls.
The first two shocks at Columbia S. c
were fearful. Buildings rose aud fell lik,
boats on the waves OF the ocean aud swsyet
to and fro. People rushed madly from thcii
houses into the streets. Many of the mos
substantial buildings were shaken to thei
foundations, and the walls cracked and sprung
Tuesday night was night of terror II
| Beaufort, 3 @. $ venteen shocks of earth
quake occurred during the night. The tow
was thrown into a state of terror and excite
ment by general shaking of the houses,
The widest scenes prevailed about tn
Richmond (Vd.) prison, where the convict
in the general fright were let into the prisol
yard. Fears of an uprising among them fol
lowed and the military Of the city we're sum
moned and 10000 excited people surrounde,
the walls.
Three successive shocks violently rockt,
Atlanta, Ga, throwing down ohimneys an
shattering windows. The electric lire alarm
were disturbed and all the engines in the cit
rushed through the crowded streets in r,
Spouse TO the calls. The scene in the negr
quarters was especially weird. The cOlore
people fell upon their knees and wept an
pleaded for mercy. The preachers Wen
among them declaring that the day was
hand when men must repent of their sins.
Telegraph reports received during the da
on Wednesday show that the shocks were fe
from Georgia to Michigan aud from Mass,
chusetts TO Missouri Curious volcanic ind
cations are reported from the northeaster
corner of lawrence county, Ind. where f.
two or three days rumblings in the earth Ia
been heard and sharp explosions took place
Other Earthquakes in Ihis Country an
Elsewhere.
nna foto ~ an. tL;, ,,,,...-
that it can no longer be regarded rs out
the main ear ,hquake courses of the glob
and liable On'y 10 slight tremblngs aud ~ u
pathetic waves. THIS earthquake was the tir
great seismic disturbance that has bee
known on the Atlantic coast Of the Unite
States, aud greater than any that Is rsoOrdt
on the Pacific slope, while the only other di
turbanoe within our borders that can be con
? pared with it in violence the Nsw NJ sdr
earthquake of 1911, was not only widely al
| ferent in character, but occurred in a spars
ly Inhabited region where there no building
TO topple down, and no lives were endange
3 ed What is called the New Madrid cart
quake was an incessant quaking OF the grour
/ for an extent of 300 miles in Missouri aloI
I the Mississippi river, south of the mouth
( the Ohio, during which the surface rose an
sank in vast undulatiOns, lakes were form,
and drained again, aud assures were Opent
0 from which quantities of mud were throw
? high in the air a large tract of country WI
! permanently sunken below its former level
s Beside the Calabrian earthquake of 1856
+. by which $4,000 lives were lost the raya(
in Lisbon in lI5i, with its 60, 600 peop
= swallowed up in the sea the commissions al
+ tidal waves in Peru, y tito and Ecuador
Q 1865, whereby 10000 persons were lille
aud the tremendous union of volcano al
T earthquake ruin in lava in 1888 beside the
( the experience of Charleston il trivial Il
4 II is tremendous enlargement of our a
n quaintance with the Imprisoned forces OF Il
a globe, and eompels Us to realize that We a
: not free from the danger which always threl
It ems the historic earthquake regions. Shou