Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-06
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. SUNDAY IN CHARLESTON. Religious Services In The
 Open Air Yesterday. ANOTHER SLIGHT SHOCK. Interesting Scenes and Inci-
 dents About The City. MORE RIOTiNG IN, DUBLIN
MORE RIOTiNG IN. DUBLIN
Gloucester Fishermen De-
 mand Active Measures.
THE EARTHQ JAKE.

AFTER THE EARTHQ JAKE.
 A Quiet Sunday in CharIeston-Ser- l vices i'm the open Air-Interesl1ng | Scenes and Incidents A Powder 1 House of Many Wars Destroyed.
 CHARLESTON, September 5.-A belief pre- vails tonight that the worst is over and that l the people are reasonably secure from fur | ther destruction by earthquakes. This beliel | is based upon the assurances of scientists who say there is but the slightest possibility of recurrence of the fearful shocks after an 1 elapse of so much time. With this impres- | sion of security citizens who left the city in | hot haste have begun to return in small num- l bers, and visitors and sightseers are putting | in an appearance. Four times as many people ! were registered for dinner at the hotels to- | day than for any day since the first shock, | although few rooms would be occupied if | there should be another shock, and that may l come. Very few of the regular inhabitants | will return to their homes during the week; | in fact only the most daring of strangers will yet venture inside a building, and they do so because they have not true appreciation of the horrors of an earthquak ke and the eff | feet of good sized shock would have at this time when the houses hang together by slender threads. All of the one hundred or two hundred incomers of to-day expressed surprise at the enormity of the situation. "Why," said one from Washington, 'I had no idea that what had read was true. The people in the North, and especially New En- gland, believe the newspaper men have been
 lying about the destruction. The accounts
 in the press are read with great interest, but no one has any idea of the true condition"
 In this connection it is proper to state that
 no reports have been received here of mate
 rial misstatements by newspaper representa-
 tives. The dispatches sent out have treated
 the occasion very fairly. Surely none have
 overwritten. Difficulty would be encounter
 ed i'll exaggerating the condition of this city.
 History fails to record anything in the ap-
 pearance of the ruins of Pompeii much more
 horrible disheartening than can be seen
 here at this moment. Pedestrians to-day
 discovered many new and interesting freaks
 of quakes. Some of them were found at the
 residence of Major Robinson, one Of the best
 known citizens. The building was badly wrecked in some places while in others it seemed to escape injury. In one bedroom the stTangest freaks imaginable were seen. One side of the chamber oil paintings were thrown from the wall so as to destroy the canvass and crush the frames, while on the mantelpiece, few feet away, stood slen- der, tall vase, which was not toppled over On another wall in the room two or three small photographs hung in frames and ! were undisturbed when within three feet of | them the plasterning was wrenched off and | the scantling on which the laths were nailed were torn out. A lounge was tossed across the room and broken into pieces. In some places gate post on one side of an entrance was twisted off and the other post was not I loosened. The motion in places throughout | the city seems to have been very fine and I persistent like quick short puffs from bel | lows, while in others it was long and regular. ] native describes the sound of the most | damaging shock to have resembled 8 ball in | a ten pin alley and the tremor to the motion | to have initiated the motion of a window l pane when the thumb is passed | over it in contact with the glass: The chimneys, fronts of buildings, walls and | brick fences did indeed fall like tenpins. The | terrific destroyer came whirling under the | city like mad, seemingly but a short distance | beneath. No one will wonder why the peo- | pie were terrorized after looking over the I devastated city of Charleston. Very few of |
  whenever they hear any heavy sound. The | old magazine in Cumberland street, build | ing constructed of brick, stone and concrete 1 in the eighteenth century, and which stands | as monument among the citys landmarks, | weathering three wars, the many earthquakes | and cyclones of the country, and which car | ries in it's wall @ shell from British gun | fired during the revolutions building which ! the oldest inhabitant believed could not be | destroyed by any earthquake which did not | engulf the city-is in ruins.
 The tents from Washington and Whining ton were mostly put up in the park overlook l ing the confluence of Cooper and Ashley | rivers leading out of the bay. Forts Sumter | and Moultrie plainly in view. As the | sun peered through the scrub oaks and into | the tents this morning, and the inhabitants | responsively turned out to greet their first | Sunday since the disaster. thrilling scene | was presented. Scores of children were seen | gamboling on the green, mothers were mak- | ing the toilets of their infants, servants were | preparing breakfast over oil stoves, and men | were in groups like soldiers after battle | discussing the past, present and future. | Within a space of three hundred feet by | fifteen hundred probably one thousand people | were camped. This is in the aristocratic | portion of the city and the campers were of | the best families. A number of births | of twins. This has been a very | warm day. The streets were dusty and hot,
 but the breeze made the atmosphere toler- | able in the shade. Had it not been for the | arrival of two trains bearing twelve hundred l people from Savannah andz intermediate l points and religious services in the open air, ! the day would have been as quiet as a funer- | al day. With the full blush of the morning, ! however, arose the voices of the negroes in | the public places. They got up singing, l and in many places shouting. By l0:3o ser
 vices were in progress at dozen points. 1 ;ol, +ahl of negro campers, suggested scene of Mount | Olivet in biblical history. A number Of men | and women gave their experiences after the | general sermons at different locations in the | park. There was perfect din of the reJole- ing, and doubtless some good will result. | Here the negroes are singing with the genuine ! African soul and nothing will check their | pent up enthusiasm when once 1t IS
 aroused. A greater revival was probaoly | never witnessed than that in Washington | Square, and what was true of the one ap- | piled as well to half dozen others. The Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist and other | denominations worshipped in the open air. | All of the sermons treated of the calamity | which had drowned upon and now threat ened Charleston. Two or three of the minis | ters attributed the visitation to divine proVl. denee and made appeals to the better side of | the human nature. At o'clock there was general mass meeting at the corner Of broad | and East Bay streets, near the city postomce. Thousands of people assembled and eloquent sermons were preached by volunteer mlnls, ters. The songs were most beautiful and the teachings impressive. The surroundings of the meeting were most thrilling On ev- cry hand are three-story buildings, the hlgh- est with few exceptions of any in Charles, ton, as there are only small number of tall structures here. All in the immediate local ity with the exception of the building oeeu-
 pied by the Carolina savings bank are
 wrecked more or less, and some of them frightfully so, more than dozen fronts hay, ing fallen into the streets Several
 had bulged so that the window shut ters swung open and threatened to fall. On heaps of the debris for nearly square in every direction were perched people of every color and nationality and degree. Be- fore the sermon began they gave their ex- periences of Tuesday. Some of them were pitiful, others ludicrous and others heart rending. A white haired colored woman, who spent two-thrds of her years in slavery, told how her only son was brained on the door stoop by falling piazza An aged white man, his face covered with plasters, de