St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-03

stone, have been thrown to the pavement
below. This appears to be the only DAM
age done to the building.
THE WORST WRECK
in the locality, however, is st. MichaeFs
church. which seems doomed to deStruc-
ton. The steeple. the repairs on which
had just been completed, seems to be in
tact, but it is out of plumb and it is in
momentary danger of falling. The mas
sive porch has been wrenched from the
body of the church and the building cracked
in four places. One crack in the north
wall extends from the caves to the lower
windows. Two on the west face of the
church extend the entire height of the
building and one on the south wall also ex-
tends from the caves down almost to the
foundation. These cracks are all immedi-
ately under the steeple, which it seems
almost impossible will stand for any length
of time. The hands on the clock pointed
to 9:55. which must have been the hour OF
the first shock Oh Tuesday night. The
buildings between Meeting and King streets
are all more or less damaged, the effects Of
the earthquake being the same III nearly
every instance. The front wall of DR.. DeS-
Sauer'S residence has been thrown down,
leaving the attic flour exposed, and several
buildings OH the south side of the street
have been similarly treated. West of King
street the most serious damage is to the
Episcopal residence. The gable end has
been thrown down, the wall falling on the
roof of the spacious porch and crushing it
in. The new and handsome residence of
Capt. F. w. Wagner and that of Mr..
Arthur Barnevell. Immediately opposite, do
not appear to have been seriously damaged.
The second floor veranda of Capt. Xag
OnerS house on the west side has been
crushed in, but beyond this the building
shows no sign Of the terrible shaking. What
a scene of desolation the fashionable boule-
ward of Charleston presents! Commencing
at Broad street. one passes through block
of burned houses,
TEE FIRE,
starting at No. 118. the third building from
the corner of Broad street on the east side,
consumed the entire row of buildings as far
north as Tully's old stand. next the Quaker
graveyard. The few houses left on that
side of the street are more or less shattered
and Quilted. The few houses on the west
side of the street north OF Bond street have
not escaped the general fate, although the
damage is not as great as in other portions
of the street The immense vacant lot on
the west side of the street is occupied by
the families which lived in the burned
houses and who camped on the sward.
From Queen street to HerlackS almost
every house is shattered. the tops of the
walls near the roof being thrown down.
The large building at the corner of Clifford
and King streets, formerly FoX's furniture
store, has, to all appearances, escaped.
From Horlacks alley to Market street the
damage is not as great as it might have
been. Robbs' lot on the east side of the
street is occupied by several hundred
people camping out. The Victoria hotel
appears to have escaped, and the Academ y
OF Music shows no damage, on the exterior
at least. From Market to Hazel street the
damage done does not seem to be as great
as in other portions. The handsome block
of stores from Beaufene to Wentworth
street has been singularIy preserved, very
few of the plate glass fronts being broken.
although here and there a parapet is thrown
down and brick disloged from walls. The
Masonic temple seems to have escaped and
the damage to the buildings between this
point and Calhoun street seems not to be
so great. In Wentworth street the hand
some hall of the German artillery has been
badly damaged. The northeast and north
west corners of the building are bath gone.
Coming down Meeting street from Calhoun
street, the signs of the earthquake are very
plain. Both the high school and the
Freundschaftbund hall are comparatively
uninjured. The building of the Charleston
waterworks on Georgia street is uninjured,
and strange to say, so is the immense
THREE MILLION GALLON RESERVOIR.
on the premises, although the brick house
opposite in Georgia. street is badly dam
aged All over the city the injury is of
the same character. A special report from
Mt. Pleasant, opposite Charleston, says that
a sink near the German church, which on
Tuesday was perfectly dry sand, is now
full of fresh water. Near Shell street
there is cabin occupied by colored man
that is completely surrounded by yawning
chaSms, extending through the earth'S sur
face for ten feet and over. All around
this there are sinks of fresh water and
masses of mud with queer looking sub
stances that have never been seen before.
1t is commended by many that the mud and
other substances found around the village
are volcanic matter. Just after the first
great shock on Tuesday night there was
decided and distinct smell of gas
over the entire village. The smell lasted
all night in those localities where
the cavities in the earth were
most numerous. Not far from
Charleston on the road to Summervllle
extensive mounds of clay were thrown up
and hillockS of sand, in most cases in the
shape of inverted cones, the hollow part of
which had evidently been formed by the
action of the water running into the depths
from which it had been raised. In other
places
THERE WE'RE FIsSUREs
almost invariably extending from north to
south. These cracks were not wide, and
extended downward, always in a slanting
direction. The matter that was thrown up
was of dull, dark slaty color, and was
mixed with gravel. There was also little
shale, and in general the mud resembled
that which is thrown from the bottom of
the phosphate pits along the liver. The
water in some places had the taste of our
artesian water, but in many instances it was
as clear and limpid as from mountain
spring. These evidences of the great con-
vulsion are not sporadic. They extend far
and near in every direction from the city
limits, and at Summerville it wa
found from trustworthy sources that the
cracks and assures are everywhere visible
for miles around. Strangely enough some
of these were in active operation and the
constant shocks that were felt at Summer
vile sent the water out of these assures in
jets to the height of from fifteen to twenty
feet This was evidently the result of the
cracks being filled with water, and then
the sides opening and closing by each
shock. These appearances were, of course,
suggestive of still more violent eruptions.
and there was constant dread that there
would be general inundation caused by
some extraordinary force of the earth