St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-06
JHARLESTON'S RUINS.
Another Shock of Earthquake Strikes Ter
Tor to the Hearts of the Stricken
Oity's Inhabitants
The Losses Will Foot Up $4,000, 600
Over 5000 People Need Tenn
pOrarY Shelter.
Many Suffering for Bread--Huts to
be Built--The City Must Bor-
row $4,OoO,O0O.
Mayor Courtney in New 6Ork--He
FeeIingly Expresses Himself on
the Catastrophe.
CharIeStcn,s Sad Sabbath.

CharIeS1Cn'S Sad sabbath.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 5.-There was an
ther shock at 1905 tonight. 1t was not
tery severe and the duration was about
wo seconds. The prevailing belief here to-
light is that the inhabitants are reasonably
iecure from further ViSltatonS or earth
quake. This belief is based mainly upon
The assurances of scientists. who say there
only the slightest possibility of recur-
.ence OF the more powerful shocks after the
.apSe of so much time. With the feeling of
comparative security thus engendered.
citizens who left the city in hot haste To
elude danger, have begun to return in small
numbers and visitors and sightSeerS are put
ting in an appearance. -Four times
as many people were registered for
dinner at the hotels to-day as
at any time since the visitation OF the
earthquakes. and all the available rooms at
the various hoStelrieS are now engaged for
tonight. Few, if any, of these rooms
would be occupied in case of another shock,
and that may come with the pressure Of the
tide al midnight Very few of the regular
inhabitants will return to their homes dur
ing the week. In fact, it is only the most
daring of the strangers who yet venture i'll
side of a building. and these do so because
they have no true appreciation OF the eff
feet that
A SEVERE SHOCK
would have at this time, when the houses
hang together by slender threads. All of
the one or two hundred incOmerS of to-day
expressed surprise at the enormousness of
the destruction. Why" said one from
Washington, Il had no idea that what 1
had read was true The accounts in the
press are read with great interest, but 40
one has any idea of the true condition of
Charleston" In this connection it is proper
to state that no reports have been received
here of material miSStatementS by newSpa-
per representatives. Difficulty would be
encountered in attempting to eXaggerate the
condition of Charleston at this time.
Pedestrians in their wanderings through
the ruins to-day discovered many new and
interesting freaks of the earthquake. Some
of them were found at the residence OF
Mai. J. II. Robinson. a well-known citizen.
The building was badly wrecked in some
places, while in others it seemed to have
escaped injury. In one bedroom OF the
house the strangest freak imaginable took
place. On one side of the chamber oil
paintings were thrown from the walls with
such force as to destroy the canvass and
crush the frames, while on the mantel
piece, a few feet away, in the same room,
stood a slender, tall vase which
RETAINED ITS PERPENDICULAR
On another wall in the room two or three
small photographs in frames were left I'M
disturbed, while within three feet of them
the plaStering was. as it were, Wrenched of
and ground into dust, and the scantling
upon which the lathing was nailed was
torn out of its place. A lounge was
hurled ACROSS the room and broken to
.T. - f.sx.- Fa.aF
not even overtu .ed. In some places the
gate post on on side of all entrance was
bursted off, Will the other post, three or
four feet distant, was neither lOOsened nor
cracked. The old magazine in Cumber-
land street, a building constructed of brick,
stone and cement in the eighteenth century,
which stood as a monument among the
land marks of the city, having Weathered
the war and the many earthquakes and cy-
clones of the country in its time and which
carried in its wall shell from British
gun fired during the revolution, building
which the oldest inhabitant believed could
not be destroyed by any earthquake which
did not eugulf the city. is in ruins. The
tents from the war department and from
Wilmington were mostly put up in the park
facing the battery and overlooking the con-
fuence Of the Cooper and Ashley rivers,
leading out TO the pay.
FORTS SUMTER AND MOULTRIE,
of rebellion fame. are plainly in view, AS
the sun peered through the scrub oaks and
into the tents this morning, and the inhab
itants responsibility turned out to greet their
first Sunday morning since the disaster, a
thrilling scene was presented. Scores of
little children were seen gamboling on the
green. mothers were making 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 800 feet wide by 800 feet in length
probably 1000 persons were camped. This
is one of the ariSt0cratic portions OF the
city and the campers are of the best
families. A number of births have
occurred. twins in two cases. This has
been an exceedingly warm day in Charles
ton. The streets are dusty and hot, but
the breeze made the atmosphere tOlerable
in the shade. Fad it not been for the ar
rival of two excursion trains bearing LOO
people from Savannah and intermediate
points, and the religious services in the
open air, the day would have been an ex-
ceedingly quiet one. With the full blush
OF the morning. however, arose the voices
of the negroes in the public places. They
got up singing and shouting. By 1890
o'clock services were in progress at dozen
points. There was
PERFECT DIN OF REJOICING
and doubtless some good will result.
greater revival was probably never wit
messed than the one in Washington square,
and the same may be said of half a dozen
or more others. All of the sermons treated
of the calamity which has visited Charles
ton. At4 o'clock there was general mass
meeting at the corner of Broad and East
Bay streets near the city post0ffice
Thousands of people attended and eloquent
sermons were preached by volunteer min
listers. On every hand are three-story
buildings. the highest with very few eY-
ceptions in Charleston, the city having only
small number of tall structures. Ali in
the immediate locality. except that occupied
by the Carolina Savings bank, are wrecked
more or less, and some of them fr1ghtfully
so, more than dozen fronts having fallen
into the streets. Several had bUlged so
heavily that the window shutters swung
open and may fall at any moment. On
heaps of debris for nearly square in every
direction people were congregated. Before
the sermon began many experiences of
Tuesday night were given-some pitiful,
some IudicrOus and others heartrending.
A WHITE-HAIRED CoLoRED WOMAN
who had spent the third of her life in
slavery, told how her only son, in fleeing
from their home. had been Drained on the
stoop by the falling piazza. An aged white
man. his face covered with court plaster,
depicted to a group his narrow escape, and
told how one of his neighbors was killed.
At times during the early exercises the old
nostotfice building trembled before the
soughing sea breeze, and its cracked walls
threatened to crush every one within
reach. The preaching and exercises on
the public crier's block at Fui's Place,
which is known as auction mart, was in
marked contrast with what is usually wit
messed there Only the visitors and citizens
going to and from worship were in the
Streets to-day. 1t is now quite plain that