Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-02
DEATH DESTRUCTION!
A Dark Spot in American History by
the Great Earthquake Of
Tuesday Night,
About Sixty People Killed at Charles.
ton, $. G., and Three. Quarters
OF The City Destroyed.
Between Seyenty-Fve and One Hun
dred People Killed at Richmond
and Many Buildings Ruined.
The People Camp In the Squares and
Parks Afraid TO Venture Back
teTheIr Ruined Homes.
No Estimate Of the Total Number Of
Victims Can Be Formed Until the
Debris is All 0verhauIed.
A Passenger Train Near Summeryllle,
Ga., Overturned, Two People
Killed-Loss at Mooney, Ind.
Tho shocks Felt An tho way from Now
York TO New Orleans aud from st,
Louis to tho Atlantic Ooast.
AT CHARLESTON.

AT CHARLESTON
WARRINGTON, Sept. 1.-The Western
Union at Wilmington, N. c., sends the
following; "rhe train dlspatchers Of
the Atlantic Coast line, Just In, say their
sectIon-master, stationed twelve miles
from Charleston, reports that the shock
wrecked bridge near there, and says
darkey from four miles north of Charles
ton reports that the water tank was
thrown down and the ground upheaved,
misplacing the track in several places.
The ground was cracked and boiling
water was coming from it, The report,
coming from the source it does, must be
taken with grains OF allowance, Augusta
can get no one on the Charleston circuit,
and the nearest point is 81. Stephens. A
special engine has been started to bring
any reports available, and II get any
thing viii post you"
WASHINGTON, Sept. /, 1880 A. ~
The Southern Telegraph company report
that 1t has succeeded in re-opening com
munioation with Charleston. The OPP
orator there says the earthquake shock
was very severe. Several lives were lost
and q number of persons injured.
SIXTY PERSONS KILLED AND WOUNDED,
CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept IAN earth
quake such as has never before been
known In the history OF this city swept
over Charleston last night shortly after
10 O'Clock, causing more loss OF life and
injury TO property than the cyclone of the
year before, The city is wrecked.
Streets are eDcumbered with masses OF
fallen bricks and tangled telegraph and
telephone wires, and up to an early hour
II was almost impossible 10 pass from
one part OF the city to another. The first
shock was by far the most
severe, and people with their
families passed the night in the
streets which until this morning were
crowded with people afraid TO re.enter
their homes. More than sixty persons
were killed and wounded, chiefly colored.
Among the whites killed and fatally in
jured are M. j. Lynch, Dr. r. Alexander
Hammond and Ainsley Robinson. Fires
broke out in different parts OF the city
Immediately Efter the earthquake and
some are still burning but there Is no
danger of Its spreading There is no
way Of leaving the city at present.
CHARLESTON, S. C., S pit. J., S;30P.M
AT $3.50 precisely this morning another
wave swept over the city, coming as the
others did from the southeast aud going q
northwest direction. BY that time
people who had been on the public park
and open places, many OF them returned
to their houses TO get clothing and some
thing to eat.
The approach OF the earthquake was
heralded by the usual rumbllng sound,
resembling distant thunder. Then IL
gradually approached, the earth qulver-
ing and heaving, and In three seconds 1t
had passed, the sound dying ont In the
distance. This Is the only wave felt
since $3.50 this morning. II was not de-
structive, all the destruction being done
at . ;55 last night.
The city Is complete wreck. st. MI
chaels and St. Phillips churches, two OF
the most historic churches In the city,
are in ruins. SO is the Hlbernia. The
police stations and many other public
buildings, fully two-thlrds Of the resi-
dences are uninhabitably wrecked, either
totally or partially. II Is impossible at
this time to give q correct estimate
OF the casualty. It Is expected that be-
tween ifty and one hundred people have
been killed and several hundred wounded.
At the time Of the first shock fire broke
out In five different places Ia the ely.
About twenty houses were destroyed by
fre. Scarcely one hundred houses In the
city are occupied at this writing, the peo-
pie all being encamped ia the open places,
the stores closed and scarcity OF pro-
visions feared, not from want Of pro-
but because no one can be got 70
the stores 10 sell them.
ANOTHER MIGHT or HORROR.
CHAkLEsTON, s. G., Sept. 1.-Two
slight shocks Of earthquake have been
felt since last night, the first Ut 6'25 this
morning and one at about 1880 p. m,
neither doing any further destruction.
Not even during Gen. Quincy A. Gilmofe's
Commandment Of the city has there ever
been euch q deplorable state Of affairs
nere. The city Is literally In ruins and
the people are living ia the open squares
and public parks. There 10 great rash
10 the railroad depots 10 get away, but
owing TO the earthquake no
trains have been able 10 be dis
patched from the city. Telegraphlc
also cut on, save the one /
wire o. the Southern Telegraph company, |
which Is crowded with anxious private
messages u Is impossible 70 depict the 1
ruin and desclation that prevail here.
sot single place Of basiness In the city
4 omen save the drug stores, which are