Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-16

building the new pillars has progressed
| finely. ALI day great crowd removed
| the wreck from the streets and people
| were made to shudder as they conten.
| plated the danger of the men on the diz.
| " height, walking and hammering tot
Icring and honeycombed steeple seventy
| five feet high beginning seventy-fve feet
from the ground, and weighing many
tons.
More danger is anticipated from wind
than anything Just now. A stiff breeZes
such as would make windows in firm
buildings rattle, would send crashing to
earth hundreds of buildings IN this city
which are now cracked and racked.
Architects say that but very few of the
brick buildings can be repaired, as they
are so old that the brick and mortar are
rotten. Not five per cent of the buildings
are less than twenty years old, while
third of them are quarter of
century of age, and number
were construed far back in the eighteenth
century. There is little new paint on
buildings here. Like mecrSchaum pipes
and "bourbon," they are valuable accord
ing to age. A gentleman upon being ap-
preached yesterday in reference to the
sale of his residence, said: "rhe house
is forty years old; it cost $4,000. l
will take SIT, 900 for it since it is dam
aged" The ages of buildings, like the
pedigree of blooded animals, always 60
with transfers, and owners never lose
sight of them.
Great concern is yet felt for the welfare
of that ancient landmark, st. Michael's
church. A gentleman who has inveSti-
gated its condition, gives an encouraging
account of the state of affairs in the old
church, in that it was found the damage
which it has certainly and evidently suf-
fered. will not necessarily involve the
demolition of the famous stecple or per-
haps of a considerable part of tbs rest
of the building.
Right Rev. w. B. Howe, Bishop
of South Carolina, has issued ali appeal
for help to repair the Episcopal churches
here damaged by earthquake. He thus
sums up his needs:
st. Phillips Church and church home
both much in ured. ST. Phillips is the
mother church of the diocese and parish
since 1878. St. MichaePs Church, col
onial church built in 1857; the damage is
very serious. st. Paul's Church, the
largest in the city, built in 1916; very
badly damaged. st. Luke's not seriously
injured but needing repairs. Colony
Church, free church for colored people,
seriously hurt. ST. Timothy's Church
SHIPPED in the open air. With their own
houses not habitable, how can these peo-
pie repair their churches? Any money
sent TO Bishop Howe for the above pur-
poses will be distributed according to my
best judgment, unless otherwise direct
ed. l think we need at least one hun.
dred thousand dollars"
The Columbia Is. CO. Board of Trade
have appointed relief committee to go
to every train from Charleston and Sum-
merville to meet refugees from these
stricken cities and take them to comfort
able quarters. There are about SIX hun.
dred refugees in Columbia, but the citi.
zens invite many more to come.
S. G. Pinckney, who lives in South
street, a few doors east of Grace Church,
was in New York when the earth
quake came. He states that on
his return he found his yard filed with q
new kind of soil. geyser had opened
in the yard from which warm water
spouted to the height of five feet.
Mingled with this was quantity of blue
sand such as came from all other assures.
Since then the fissure has closed, and the
spouting of the water has ceased. 1t was
also ascertaned that on Wednesday
morning quite a number of cellars in all
parts of the city were unaccountably
filed with water where there had never
been water before.
One OF the most positive indications OF
the return of confidence and a wearing
off of fear of Il repetition of strong quakcs,
is the large number of drunken men on
the streets. The police are taking them
in rapidly, and declare that drunkenness
and fear from earthquakes do not go to-
gether. A census of shell s-ed people in
the city just completed by the police re-
lief committee shows that 10000 out of
the 10000 people here are under tents.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Sept. 7.-One of the Gu
rious results of the recent disturbances
here is the change in the topography OF
the country. Many houses on the
sand hills. the aristocratic portion
of the city, which before could
not be seen from the city,
are now in full view, while other
landmarks have disappeared. These
curious changes were noticed yesterday
for the first time and attracted much at
tention. In taking bird's-eye view OF
the city from any point these remarkable
changes will at once be recognized, and
20 to prove that there has been con-
siderable settling of the earth.