The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-09

A mulatto man was hit on the head
] with brick at ITO Tradd street., Dead.
Olive Nickleby; mulatto girl, II years
old, killed at Judge Bryan's yard, Church
street.
Isaac jenkins, colored,. wall fell on
him 10 Cow alley. Seriously damaged
all over body.
W. Pratt jumped out of window 155
Calhoun, leg broken.
Capt. H. A. DeSaussure was painfully
injured in head while at his Office.
Ellen Mitchell, mulatto, serious inter.
nal injuries, residence Judge Bryan's
yard.
Mrs. Baynard, st. Philip street, near
| the public school, fell down the steps and
dislocated her hip bone.
The nephew of J. w. Oldenbuttel,
East Bay, is seriously injured.
A colored girl in the yard of G. W.
Williams, Jr., Atlantic street, is seriously
injured.
Susan Days was seriously injured at 6
Philadelphia street.
Mary Ann Drayton, colored, Phila-
delphia street, sustained painful injuries
on body and lower limbs.
Kate Hamilton, colored, 6 Philadel-
phia street, sustained painful injuries in
the head from falling bricks.
Among those who were killed were
Susan Middleton, colored, and another
colored woman, both of whom were
crushed under the fallen portico of
the Main Stationhouse.
!. On Mary street, near Meeting, a house
was, shaken down and all the inmates
escaped except little colored child
named Lizzie Fraser, who was crushed 10
death.
just at the first shock a wagon bearing
two men was passing the corner of Reid
and King streets, when the gable end of
the store on that corner fell and covered
the unfortunates with the debris, one of
whom was killed.. It MAS very late when
the body was extricated, and it was i'm
possible to ascertain the persons name.
Willie Schille, who clerks in ]. W.
Oldenbuttel's restaurant, was seriously
injured by cornice of the house falling
on his hip; he was taken down on
Boyce's wharf and attended by doctor,
who said that no bones were broken, but
his spine is seriously injured.
James Dorm, who lives over Oldenbut.
tel's restaurant, had his arm, broken and
his shoulder blade knocked out of place.
Mr.. M. ]. Flynn, compositor on the
Neaos and Courier, jumped from the
window of the composing room into the
side alley when the first shock was felt.
He sustained serious injuries about the
shoulder, and on the arm and head.
Crushed in the Ruins.
AT o'clock this morning the body of
colored woman was taken out from the
debris at the corner of Meeting and
Broad street, near the lamppost. It
proved to be the body of Mrs. Jacob
Middleton. The unfortunate woman
must have been passing just as the east
wall of the building fell.
Aboutthe same time two gentlemen
who we're near Pavilion Hotet heard
piercing cries for help. They went down
Hasel streetin the direction OF the cries,
and found white man and woman half.
buried in the ruins of the Lazarus build
ing. They were extricated and sent to
the Hospital in q wagon furnished by Mr..
Pickett. g.
Bringing in the Killed and Wounded.
As the night wore on the search for the
dead and wounded continued. Stretchers
were improvised out of shutters, doors
and loose planks, and the dead and
wounded were conveyed to the open
space. Washington Park was speedily
filled with impromptu stretchers, on
which the dead and wounded were
stretched. Drs. Manning Simons, P. g.
DeSaussure, Mellow, Ravenel and others
were out and rendered all the assistance
in their power.
At the Hospital.
The City Hospital was badly wrecked
and it is stated that several of the in.
mates were killed. A number of the
patients were injured. There were all
taken out of the building and passed the
night in the open air.
Ten patients severely and some mortal
ly wounded are in the Hospital, six white
and four colored. They present terri
BILE spectacle. At the Hospital was also
the body of a: colored man, who was
killed by falling piazza, and the body
of Mr.. Robert Alexander, the young
English analytical chemist, was sent
there horribly mangled.
The patients of the Hospital have
been moved from the wards to safer one.
story buildings formerly used as wash
and dining.rooms.
At the Jail.
The scene at the Jail beggars descrip.
tion. When the building began to shake
the prisoners made dash for the door.
Capt. Kelly, however, stood at the door,
pistol in hand, and firing half dozen
shots kept the crowd back. Their shrieks
could be heard for squares and many of
the inmates dashed themselves madly
against the bars in their efforts to escape.
They were kept within doors, bovever,
and although the building was badly
shattered none of them escaped.
Thirty-Eight Prisoners Escape.
Capt. Kelly told o Representative of
the News and Courier early this morning
that thirty eight of the prisoners whom
he had taken down in The yard had MAN.
aged to escape. Whether any of them
have been recaptured has not yet been
ascertained.
The Scenes and Incidents Mt the Corner OF
Broad Street, by tho oity Editor.
Within FIVE minutes after the first
shock the residents of the lower wards,
or such of them rs were able to get out
of their houses, were out on the streets.
Remembering the descriptions of earth.
quakes in other parts of the world, a rush
was at once made for the open space.
Washington Square was soon crowded
with women and children in their night
clothing and with men hurrying to rem
der all the assistance possible.
AS the time went by the crowd in.
creased. Stalwart men rushed into the
tottering houses aud brought out the
halt, the lame and the blind. Others
rushed in for clothing and bedding and
the Park was soon filled with a crowd of
panic stricken women and children. To
add to the. horrors of the occasion the
heavens were suddenly illuminated with
bright blazes in three distinct portions of
the city-in the southwest, the west and
the north. Engine No. came out and
was driven in the direction of the fire in
the southwestern portion of the city.
In the park quite number of colored