The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-10

ETOay, Wnlcn we're leI6 Doth IN South Car
DINA and Georgia. Sumnerville, where,
according to acc cunts, the earthquake was
first and most severely felt. is q health re-
sort of Charleston. The coincidence is
worthy of note that the earthquake in
Greece probably occurred on Friday, as
the first news OF it was received on Satur-
| day.
/ charleston is the chief commercial city of
south Carolina. 1t stands at the confluence
OF the Ashley and Cooper rivers. which here
unite and form q spacious harbor. These
rivers run a parallel course for nearly six
miles widening as they approach the sea,
thus gradually narrowing the site of the city
lnt3 a peninsula: The city is built upon low
and level ground, and, to one approaching by
water seems to rise from the sea. Tho
hareor is large estuary. extending
about seven miles southeast to the. Allan.
| two miles. 1t is landlocked on all sides,
| except an entrance of about mile in width.
On the right hand, at the entrance, is Fort
Moultrie, on Sullivan's Island, and on the left
/ hand. raised upon shoal in the harbor and
! directly covering the channel, is historic Fort
sumter. Immediately in front of the city,
covering the crest of mud shoal and facing
| the entrance. From the entrance of the
middle channel q full view of the city is
obtained
St. Micnaers (Episcopalian) Church. which
has been destroyed, was built in 1852. 1t COM
manded a fine view of the sea and the shores.
4 Inc tower was one OF the nObIeSt monuments
| of the city, being 16S feet high, and was the
| chief or only beacon in The period of the
/ Revolution and was painted black when the
assailing British fleet was anticipated III order
| TO prevent their use of it as a guide to the
| harbor.
| Next to St Michaers the generation of old
Charleston was accorded TO St Philips, an
| other Anglican church. This building was of
statelier cost ana character than st Michael's.
| During the progress of the bombardment
| of Charleston by the Federal feet in 1866 the
| towers of these two famous churches were
| riddled with shot and SHE'LL
Charleston has population of about 5000,
of which nearly one-half are negroes. As q
| shipping point it ranks next to New York and
| New Orleans in the export of cottOn.l
COLUMBIA, S. G., Sept. 2.-Summervie,
twenty-five miles from Charleston, was
nearly destroyed by the earthquake j.
III. Averfll, master of transportation OF the
South Carolina Railroad Company. tee-
! graphs from Summerville that MANY per-
sons have been killed and that hundreds
are homeless. The whole business portion
OF the city is badly wrecked.
ELSEWHERE IN THE SOUTH.
/ SAVANNAH, Ga. Sept. 2.--Three distinct
shocks have been felt here since midnight
Tuesday. All were short and not violent.
People are still greatly excited, and are
sitting out in the streets and squares
| OE CTOWulHS dTOu0u IciP{rfaDn anu
newspaper offices. At Tybee Island at
the mouth OF the Savannah river, the
lenses in the light house were destroyed.
The people on the island telephone to the
city that they are in q state of terror.
| There can be no communication with the
main land for some time. and all the in-
habitants are assembled on the highlands.
| Their chief cause of fear is from a tidal
wave, the island having been swept in Au-
gust, 1881.
ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. 2.-Another shock
was felt here at five O'Clock yesterday
afternoon, causing people to rush into the
streets The damage Tuesday night was
confined to joting chimneys and breaking
plaster in residences. Mrs. Samuel Bow
ers. an old lady died OF fright. Many
ladies tainted and thousands OF men
were completely unnerved. Citizens
remained in the streets all night. Shocks
were felt over Georgia and the South gem
orally, but were most violent and de-
structive in Charleston. 1t is stated that
nothing like this has occurred since 1911,
when there were shocks extending from
| Charleston to the Missouri river, where
large tracts of land were sunk.
| On the South Carolina ra;'road at Horse
Creek and Langley, sixty miles from Au-
gusta, the earthquake caused the mill,
dam to break and wash away nearly half
a mile of track which wrecked an outgoing
train and killed Adam Simmons, fireman,
and wounded John Reynolds, engineer.
| When the dam broke wall of water six
feet high and several hundred yards broad
struck the track and train obliquelv, caus-
ing the casualties above reported.
| All regulator clocks and the town time
piece of Columbus, Miss. were stopped
Tuesday night by the earthquake, and the
authorities telegraphed Mobile yesterday
morning for the time OF day.
| JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. 2,-The earth
quake shock last Tuesday night was quite
severe and was felt as far southas Barlow.
IN ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI.
ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 2.-Dispatches from in
terror towns adjacent to this city in Illi-
nois and Missouri are coming in, giving
| brief accounts OF the earthquake Tuesday
night. The shock caused buildings to
rock, bells to ring and created general
CONSERVATION.
ANOTHER SHOCK EXPECTED.
New YORK, Sept. "A Washington
! special says:
| Lieutenant Powell, of the signal corps,
says that he will not be surprised
at another shock. He says there
are no external indications of
this expected phenomenon, but his
experience on the Pacific coast was that an
earthquake one day was generally fol-
lowed by another the succeeding day Fer
this reason all preparations are being
made. The telegraphic reports received so
| far by Lieutenant Powell show that shocks
were felt last night from Georgia to Michi-
gan and from New York to Missouri.
| He thinks the sudden spouting
| of the geysers in the far West which was
reported yesterday, after they had been
! dried up for years, was the first indication
of internal disturbance. He believes the
| earthquake came across from the geysers,
under the earth's surface, until it reached
the Atlantic side. where the crust begins to
thin out and thus becomes more sensitive.
FORMER EARTHQUAKES.
| Earthquakes have shaken the United States
| in days gone by. In 1911 occurred the fam Gus
| quake of New Madrid, Mo, in the valley o.
the Mississippi. Humboldt declared that the
| shock presents one of the few examples of
the incessant quaking OF the ground for
several successive months far from any
| volcano. Over an extent of country stretch
| ing for 800 miles southwark from
| the mouth of the Ohio river the ground rose
and sank in great fluctuations. and lakes
were formed and again drained. The surface
/ northeast and southwest and were some
/ times more than half mile long. From
these assures mud and water were often
/ thrown as high as the tops of the trees.
During the continuance of these commissions
/ the people distinguished two classes of move
ments-the vertical and the horizontal. The
/ latter were regarded as far more desolating
! than the former. The disturbances con-
tinued over what has since been called the
| sunk country until March 26, 1912. when
they ceased coincldentally with the great
. earthquake of Caracas.
/ The most severe earthquake that has been
recorded in the middle and Eastern States
was that of November Is, l755 The shock be-
| gan in Massachusetts with a roaring noise
j like that of thunder. After minutes
continuance of this there came the first
severe shock with a swell like that OF a
| long rolling sea- "a swell so great
that men in the open fields ran to seize
! something by which to hold on lest they
| should be thrown down. Aft two or three
| lesser shocks there came the most violent of
all, producing quick, Horizontal tremOr,
with sudden jerks and wrenches. This con-
tinued two minutes and after slight revival
/ died away. Numerous other shocks followed
in the course of q month.
On October 10. 1870. occurred the severest
| shock that has been observed in the middle
and Eastern States during the present cent
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