The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-02

course, caused the greatest alarm in
that noighDorhoOd as elsewhere. Al
Marion Square, New York, a great
crowd had collected, as even the edges
of the wide spaces embraced in it could
not be reached by the nearest buildings
in the event OF their fall. From this
crowd, composed of men, women
and children of both races, arose
incesssnt calls and cries and
lame taUions, while over the molly,
half-dressed throng was shed the lurid
light of a conhagration which had
broken out Just beyond the square i'm
mediately alter the first shock and had
now wholly envelOped several buildings
in fames. In three other quarters of
the town at the same time similar large
fires were observed under full Roadway,
and the awful significance Of the earth
quake may be most appreciated. per
haps, when il is said that with these
tremendous fires blazing up all at once
around them and threatening their
property with total destruction,
the people whom you met on the
streets or any gathering together
in groups in the open places. evidently
did not give them a thought. No one
watched the rudy flames or pillars of
cloud rising high on the still night air.
All were intent on listening, with
strained senses, for that dreaded occur
rence-that terrible growl or groan of
power under seas and under land-and
to give a thought to the new terror,
though it had threatened his own home
and many homes in the doomed city.
The crowds poureu in from every direc-
ton to the square just described, as
though 1t had been indeed charmed
circle and life depended on passing
within the grassy bounds. Street
cars, carriages and other vehicles were
ranged in lines on the streets surround
ing the square, while horses stood as
though shifting the ground in anxious
inquiry Colored people everywhere
were loud and unceasing In their
destinations of alarm, III the singing
OF hymns and fervent appeals for
Gods mercy in which appeals, God
knows, many proud heart who heard
them arising in night and in the hour
of his Wondrous might, devoutly and
humbly and sincerely joined. Danger
brings all of us to the level of the
lowiiest. There were no dis
tncuOns of place or power,
pride or caste, in the assemblages
that were gathered together in Charles
ton on Tu sday night. 1t was Curl
Gus spectacle to look back upon. 1t was
good to remember for white and black
alike. There were instances of unselfish
devotion, kind and loving regard
between master and servant, mis-
tress and maid, III the presence of
common Iillsand threatened ruin, that
showed as nothing el-e could show how
strong is the tie that binds our white
people and our black people to-
! gether, and this lesson of the
dread visitor we may hope, too, Will
never be forgotten. Arrived at his
! home the writer found the same scenes
| of destruction and wreck which marked
nearly every home IN the city. All
! houses in the neighbOrhOod had suffered
seriously and the streets, yards and
gardens were filed with fallen chimneys
and fragments of walls, while the
walls that were left standing were
rent asunder in many cases
from tie top to the bottom, and
badly shattered in every instance.
| Women an children, aroused from
sleep or interrupted in their evening
pursuits by the sound OF ruin being
| effected above and around them, rushed
out into the streets and hUddled to-
| gether awaiting the end, whenever 1t
might be. Invalids were brought out on
mattresses and deposited III the road
gev. No thought was given TO the
! treasures left behind, lie itself sud
I ir9 i,-ca .,,r so precious IN the eyes OF
Iii. .afatlI women and robust men
alike. Until long after midnight the
| streets were filled with fugi
| tiyes in the sight of their
homes. Through the long hours that
followed, few we're the eyes, even OF
childhood that were closed in sleep.
Charleston was full of those who
watched for the morning and never in
any city, in any land, did the first
gray shades that mark the approach OF
dawn appear so beautiful and so
welcome to the eyes as they appeared
to thousands of people who hailed them
this morning from the midst OF the
| countless wrecked homes Ia our thrice
scourged, but still patient, still brave,
still hopeful, still beautiful city by the
sea.
Women and children are ran
ming about t... IN the the open per tb ar
or four steamers in port including
the buoy-tenders, and many of the in.
habitants are provided with berths on
these boats. Fortunately the weather
has been good and the hardships are
not as severe as they might have been.
! The situation, however, IS becoming
horrible. Cut of from communication
| with the rest of the world, afflicted and
haunted with prospect of immediate
death, that is about the condition Of this
community. No trains have departed
or arrived here in "a hours. It's saio
that all the railroads leading into the
city are crippled. The statement Is
made that all the railway tracks ara
twisted into the shape of snakes.
ATHENS, September 1.-The damage
caused by the earthquakes at Filiatra
amounts to about 50, 900, 900.
SAVANNAH, Ga, September 1.-Eighi
shocks of earthquake were felt here TO-
day.
ATLANTA, September This morn
ing the absorbing topic was the shocks
of the previous night. After the severe
shake, which occurred at 9 O'Clock
there were two other light shocks
One occurred as II O'Clock and The
other at 4 in the morning. Neither was
anything ike SO severe as the first shoes
ing the earthquake and many incidents
| early in the morning. The facts that nc
news could be had from Charleston
aroused grave apprehensions concern
ing that city. Specials to the COTsti
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