The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-03

visible 1OT mites ana miles around
Strangely enough some of these were
in active operation, and the constant
shocks that were felt at Summerville
sent water out of these assures in Jeis,
to a height of some fifteen or twenty
feet. This was evidently the result of
the cracks being filled with water. and
their sides opening and closing by each
succeeding shock. These appearances
were, of course, suggestive of still raore
violent eruptiOns, and then there was
the constant dead everywhere that
there would be a general inundation
caused by some extraordinary force
of earthquake. Not only was the
water emitted in low places where it
night De expected to exist at the time
but on the tops of higher elevations
mud could be seen. This latter fac5 in
Dictated that force was being exerted
a. depth rather more than was at
first thought to be the limit of force.
Near Ten Mile Hill,
A FEARFUL ACCIDENT
occurred on Tuesday night. The down
Columbia train jumped the track. En-
gineer Barns and Fireman Arnold
colored, were baoly injured by the ire
mendous leap which tn train took in
the dark under the unseen influence of
the shock that dismantled the road. The
earth suddenly gave way and the engine
first plum. ed down The temporary de-
clivity. 1t was tnen raised on top OF the
terrestrial undulation and having
reached the top of the wave. a.
sudden swerving force to right and left
hurlesi the Inflated train down the en-
ho nh ~
Indicated. In many places along the
track OF the South Carolina and North
western railroads, and for spaces several
hundred yards in Width, The dreadful
energy of tie earthq AXE was expended
in two particu ar ways. First there
were intervals of a hundred yards or
more in which the track had the az
pc rance OF having been alternately
raised and depressed, like a line of
waves frozen IN their last position. The
second indication was when the force
had oscilat6d from east to west.
bending the rails in reverse curves.
most OF them taking shapes of
the single, anu others the
double letter S, placed lOngitudinally.
Tntse latter accidents occurred almost
inVariabl at trestles and culverts.
There were not less than five of them
between Seven Mile Junction and Jed
burg. In other plaC the tracks had
the appearance of being kinked for
miles, but always in these cases in the
direction OF the rails. The train at the
time of the earthquake was running
along at the usual speed and when
about mile south of Jedburg it en-
countered the terrible experience. It
was frelghted with a hundred excur-
slonists returning from the mountains.
They were all gay and happy, laugh
a sudden. in the language of one of the
excursionists, the train appeared to
have left the track aud was going up.
up, up, into the air. This was the ris-
ing wave. Su denly it descended, aud
as it rapidly fell, 1t was flung first vic
lenuy over 10 the east, the heads of the
cars apparently leaning over at an angle
OF less than 40 degrees. Then the train
righted and was hurled, as with the
roar of artillery, over to the west and
finally subsidized on the track and took
plung downward, evidently descending
with the wave. The engineer put down
the brakes tight, but SC great was the
original and the added momentum
that the train leaped ahead. 1t is said
on trustworthy authority that the
train actually galloped the track,
the front and rear trucks of
the coaches rising and falling alter
nately. The utmosy confusion prevailed,
women and children shrieked with dis
may and the Dravest hearts quailed in
momentary expectation of a more ter
ribie catastrophe. Rev. Ellison Capers
CHANGED 10 be on board and he lost no
time III giving as best he could in
the agony of the moment, the best ad
vice and counsel he could offer. The
train was then taken back in the direc-
ton of Jedburg and on the way back
the work of the earthquake was terribly
potent. The tram had actually passed
over one of those serpentine curves al
ready described and it is the simple
truth to state that every soul on board
was saved solely through the interposi-
ton of divine providence. The horror of
THE SITUATION IN sUMMERvILLE
on Wednesday was much intensified by
certain manifestations that were not OBJ
served in Charleston to any great ex-
tent. All during the day there was a
constant series Of detonations, now east
and now west, an0 from all possible di-
rections. 1t resembled the discharge of
heavy guns at intervals OF about ten
minutes. and was like the sounds Of a
b lmbardment at great distance. All
of these explosions we're not accompan
led by tremOrs OF the earth, as il was
only occasionally that the earth would
quake from the subterranean discharges.
A remarkable fact was noted
in SumnervilIe in respect to the
bullying of water from the interior OF
the earth. Nearly all of the wells have
been ct low water. There was sudden
rise in all of these wells and the addi-
tional water was pure. Looking down
into one of these wells, the observer
could, on the eve of any of the loud
declarations, see rivers rise up the walls
of the wells and after the shock
again subside. There is a rather more
cheerful feeling tonight, but no sense
of security will repair the shattered
houses and renew ruined homes. Offers
of assistance are coming from various
quarters, and it is expected that the city
council will organize a relief committee
tomorrow TO decide the losses by earth
quake. Charleston is in as good a
position as ever for the transaction
of the usual autumn trade. There is
ample warehouse and wharf room; the
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