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

/ ground. Inc SnOck was severe at
Summerville and Mount Pleasant and
] Suliivan's Island, Fissures in parts
| are noticed, from which fine sand,
apparently from a great depth, exudes.
a suIphurous SINE is noticeable.
| COLUMBIA. sc, September lat g. As
last night this city was visited by ter
ribls earthquake. The first two shocks
were fearful Buildings swayed from
side to side and the errth rose and fell
like waves of the ocean. PEG L. rushed
madly from their houses into the
streets. Some sprang frOu windows
and were injured The experiences of
those In the bui diugs at the time of
the first shock WaS that OF being
rocked If III d snip az sea. Many OF
the most substantial buildings were
shaken to their foundations, and the
walls We're cracked and sprung. Five
minutes after The first shock the second
came, and ten minutes later a third.
Other shocks followed until Les am.
when the eighth shock was felt and this
one lasted for minute and half at
/ this morning the ninth came, and at
$50 and 10 20 am the city was again
made to tremble. Very little sleep was
had by any of the inhabitants of Col
umbia. Negroes thought the end of the
world had come, and they had held
PRAYER meetings on the str, ct corners.
CHARLESTON, September Three or
four fires started in as many sections
With the first shock, and very soon il
! Illuminated with flames, thus leading all
to believe what was left by the earth
| quake would be degOured bv the fire.
However, the fire department aEas SO
we'll divided and handled that the fires
were under control at daylight. From
! % tn
/ consumed. The loss by ire and earth
quake cannot be accurately estimated,
but can safely De places a $500 900. AS
far as could be ascertained. During the
night twenty were killed. and much
greater number wounded, in all sorts OF
| ways. The loss OF human life will be
large, and it VIII tabe DAY to get the
accurate number.
/ The shocks were equally and severely
felt at dis .ance of thirty five miles,
and have done inestimable damage to
the railroad and telegraph property.
Charleston is now entirely isolated
from the outside world.
Two slight shocks of earthquake have
been felt since, the first at 8.25 this
morning. and one at about 10 pm,
neither doing any further destruction.
Not even during General Gilmsn's bonn
barGmeut of the city has there ever
been such deplorabIe state of affairs
here.
THE CITY Is LITERALLY IN RUINS,
And people are living in the open
so ares and public parks, and there is
great rush to railroad depots to get
away, but owing to the earthquakes no
trains have been able to be dispatched
from the city. Telegraphic communi-
cation is also cut off, save one wire of
the Southern Telegraph Company
which is crowded with anxious private
messages. 1t is impossible to depictthe
ruin and desolatioR that prevails here.
; Not single place of business in the
, city is open, save drug tore, VII CD is
: busy preparing prescriptions for the
wounded. 1t is impossible also to
: give any correct estimate of
t the killed and wounded, as bodies
| are constantly being dlsinterred
r from the debris Of the wrecked houses
One un6erlakeT interviewed stated that
2 he had furnished eight collins up TO
: noon to day. Many Of the dead are
; lying unburied, these being OF the
l poorer classes Of cOlOred people who
: await burial by the county. There are
: not half q dozen tents in the city, aud
women and children are experiencing
=
! night approaches most of the b ads of
families are trying to construct tents OF
bid sheets, spare awnings and other
) material that comes to their hands. The
, sun is about to set upon what is feared
s may be another night IF horror. With
out any other Violet shock of earth
r quake, it is calculated that at least
turee-fourths of the city will have to be
: rebuilt entirely If houses are to be in
r habited.
D CHARLESTON, S. e., Sex tember 1.-The
S compositOrs of the NelUS and Courier de-
0 ciined to work tonight, expecting
j fresh shocks of earthquake, and the
e paper cannot, therefore, be issued to.
: morrow. The following article was
=. pre- ared for publication in the Ne,O,
and Courier and is telegraphed almost in
o the writer's own words: " Necessarily
: the description that can be given OF
Il the disaster which has befallen our city
e consists in the narration of experiences
s and ObServances of individuals and the
o subject being the same and the ex-
periences of all being nearly alike. The
0 story told by one careful observer May
e well stand for a hundred others, with
Y slight variations. Probably the best
It idea that can be had of the character oi
IS the disturbance, therefore, may be
q obtained from the narration OF the
y events and scenes of Wednesday nigh
e as they were presented TO a single per
:. son. While engaged in his usual duties
g in the second story room of the Neip
I. and Courier Office at the time of the frs
A shock, the writer's attention wa
% vaguely attracted by a sound which
seemed to come from the Office below
| and which wa, supposed for
/. moment to be caused by the rapid
V rolling of heavy body as Al
IS iron safe or heaYy-lsden truck over Il,
: floor. Accompanying the sound thert
was pereeptible tremor Of the build
Il ing, more marked, however, thar
e would be caused by the passage OF {
IT street car or dray along the street. Fo
perhaps two or three seconds the occur
Y renee excited no surprise or comment
is Then by swift degrees, or perhaps al a
: once, it is difficult TO say which, th'
d sound deepened in volume, the tremo
II became more decided, the ear caught l
II rattle of window sashes, gas fixture
d and other loose objects. The men il
1t the Office. with perhaps simultsneou
flash Of recollections of the isturbanc