Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-02
ADDITIONAL TELEGRAPH
DAY REPORT.
SOUTH CAROLINA,

patch Just received here says: The street
of Charleston are blockaded with falle
buildings, telegraph poles and tangle'
wires. Over sixty persons were killed o
wounded After the earthquake fires brok
out in different parts of the city, but ar
not now spreading. The population spen
tho night in the streets and vacant lots
There is so much confusion it is hard t
get at facts.
| CHARLESTON, Sept l, II a. m-Al
earthquake, such rs was never befor
known in the history of the city, swep
over Charleston last night shortly after Il
O'Clock, causing more or less injury t
property, and far more loss of life than tn
cyclone of year before. The city i
wrecked, streets are encountered with mass
es of fallen bricks and tangled telegraph
and telephone wires, and up to an earl,
hour it was almost impossible to pass from
one part Of the city TO another The frs
shock was by far the most severe Most O
the people with their families passed til,
night in the streets, which even this morn
ing are crowded with people afraid to re
enter their homes, More than sixty per
sons were killed and wounded, chiefly col
ored. Among the whites the killed and ia
| w i'll
| Hammond, Ainsley and Robinson.
Fires broke out in different parts of The
city Immediately after the earthquake, anc
some are still burning, but there is no dan
ger Of its spreading.
There is no way of leaving the city a
present.
The city is wrapped in gloom and bust
ness suspended. People generally remain
in the streets, in tents and under improvised
shelters and will camp out tonight, fearing
another shock The gas works are in
jured and probably the city will be with
out light tonight.
st. Michaels' church is shattered and tho
steeple will come down Likewise the
steeple of ST. Phillips
The steeplc of the Unitarian church has
fallen
The porticos of Hibernian hall and the
main station house are demolished.
There is much injury 10 mansions or
the east and south of the battery.
The portico of the Bovinal mansion is
down Hardly house in the cily escaped
injury and many are SO shaken and cracked
that hard blow would bring them to the
ground.
The shock was severe at Sum
merville and at Mt Pleasant and Sullivan
Islands, but no loss of life is reported
there Tissues in the earth are noticed
from which fine sand. apparently from d
great depth, exude A sulphurous smell is
very noticeable.
CHARLESTON, Up. NAT S:25 a. N.
precisely another wave swept over the city
coming rs the other did from the southeast
and going in northwest direction. BY
that time people who had been out in the
public parks and open places all night had
gone into their houses to get clothing and
something to eat. The approach OF the
quake was heralded by an unusual rum
bling sound resembling distant thunder.
Then it gradually approached; the earth
quivered and heaved, and in three seconds
it had passed; the sound died out in the
distance. This is the only wave felt since
2:30 this morning. 1t was not destructive,
allethc destruction having been done at
9:55 last night
The city is complete wreck. st. Mich
aefs church and ST. Phillips church, two
of the most historic churches in the city,
are in ruins, as also is Hibernian hall, the
police station and many other public build
ings. Fully two-thifds of the residences in
the city are -wrecked-ether
totally or partially. 1t is impossible to give
IA correct estimate of casualties.
1t is expected between fifty and one hun
dred persons have been killed, and several
hundred wounded.
At the time of the first shock fires broke
out in five different parts of the city About
twenty houses were destroyed by fire and
scarcely one hundred houses in the city are
OF y, no. 40 III
camped in open places. All stores are
closed and a scarcity of provisions is feared,
not from want of provisions but because no
one can he got to reach the stores to sell
them.
IN GEORGIA
SAVANNAH. Ga, Sept 1, Q a. m--Three
distinct shocks have been felt here since
midnight The last occurred at 3:40 a. H.
All the shocks were short and not violent.
The people are still greatly excited and are
sitting out in streets and squares or crowd
ing around telegraph and newspaper offices.
No word can be obtained from Charleston
The general impression is the city has suf
fered seriously. 1t is supposed the cable
under Ashley river is broken
st Tybcc Island, at the mouth of the
Savannah river, the lenses in the light
house We're broken People on the island
telephone to this city that they are in a
state of terror There is no communica-
ton with the mainland until daylight and
all the inhabitants are assembled in the
open land. Their chief cause of fear is
from a tidal wave. the island having been
swept in August 1881.
- MA relief train has been dispatched
to Charleston from this city to render as
sistance to sufferers and to repair the rail
road
AUGUSTA, Ca, Sept. 1.-Two distinct
shocks of earthquakes were felt this morn
ng at 759 and $50. city time The eX-
railway accident at Langley's Pond, ten
miles from Augusta, the fireman was
killed.
Another South Carolina railroad train is
iitched at Horse Creek, four miles from
this city and the fireman killed The
stock train is now completely under water
The stock has escaped with the exception
If four horses
j II. Averill, master of transportation
If the South Carolina Railroad company.
elegraphs from Summerville that many
persons were killed and hundreds are home |
ess. The whole business portion of the
lily is badly wrecked.
OHIO.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 1.-The singular ef- |
'ect of the earthquake was very general !
ceiling of dizziness which caused nine peo- !
pie out of ten to imagine they were sick |
md many did not know till morning that |
he disturbance was in mother earth An |
,rperatOr in the Western Union office rp- I
'eiving. from Washington. felt sick and |
old the Washington operator b hold on |
Is he was sick. We have , shock of earth !