Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-01
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Our Continent in the Throes
OF a Mighty Earthquake.
A Night OF Horror over the
Eastern Halt of the
United States.
Charleston, South Carolina, Half
Demolished, with Heavy
Loss of Life.
The South Atlantic Coast the
Scene of the Most Extern
siye Destruction.
Tidal Waves. Submerged Coasts, Ruined
Cities and People Stricken With
Terror.
A sHAKE-UP,

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AGRAND sHAKE-UP,
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS AT VARIOUS POINTS
IN II UNITED TAT
Washington, Sept. 1-At9:55 p. M.
last night the desks in the associated
press Office in the Corcoran building
began to. vibrate in a peculiar but un-
mistakabla fashion that suggested an
earthquake. A. few minutes later the
i~anl,or reported that the upper stories
of the building vera rocking back and
forth, and the night. manager of the
Western Union telegraph Office made q
pimilar announcement, with the adj
the western wall OF the room had
stopped. telephone messages from
gentlemen connected with the assooiat-
ed press oiHne ~Wno-uya on Mas
sachusetts avenue, and from other
points in the city, reported that orna-
ments on mantel pieces were rafting.
Telegraph operators in Atlanta, a few
minutes before this, had notified Wash
ington operators that the shake" was
coming, and to look out for it, but no
attention was paid to the warning, as it
was regarded as q joke.
All POINTS.
Earthquake shecks were felt with
more or less severity OF Indianapolis,
Chicago, Memphis, Meadville, Pa, New
York, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit,
Lauissaa:e and Nashville.
CINo. NNAVI PARTICULARS.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. There was
@ decided difference in the severity of
the shock in different buildings and in
different parts of the city. Many people
did not observe it at all. The govern
ment buildings, the largest and the
strongest in the CITY, rocked violently
with three distinct vibrations. A large
clock was stopped and mirrors were
broken in large seven story flats. The
vibrations were severe, the most decided
shock being felt in the northern part of
the city OF Cummlnsville, where
the lights were put out q
bottles in the drug stores We're broken,
Probably twenty or thirty meetings Of
lodges and societies were broken up,
Throughout the state the dispatches
indicate that the shock was general and
occurred almost at the same instant. AT
Hamilton boarders ran rom their rooms
rs a., frsrLN axal {ba r,nlla r,awa ooiJ ~ e.ua n
one and one-half inches. At Denison a
meeting was broken up in panic
Cashacton felt two shocks and the sarne
story comes from nearly every tom in
Ohio, but no actual amaee WIS done,
Shocks were felt at Cattlettsburg, Ash
land, Kentucky, and Huntington. West
Virginia, where 1t wa most severe.
CHARLESTON oALAMfrIEs.
Charleston. SO, Sept. lst, II q. M
An earthquake such as has never before
been knosn in the history of this city
visited Charleston last night shortly
after 10 p. M, causing far more loss Of
life thsn the cyclones OF the year before,
The CITY is wrecked and the streets are
ancumbered with masses of fallen bricks
and tangled telegraph and telephone
wires, and up to an
early hour it was almost
impossible to pass from one part of the
city to another. The first shock was by
far the most severe. Most Of the people
with families passed the night in the
streets which were even this morning
crowded with people who were
afraid TO enter their houses. More
than sixty persons were killed and
wounded, mostly colored. Among the
killed are M. B. Lynch, DR.. Hammond
and Amsley Robinson. Fires broke cut
in different parts of the city and are
still burning, but with no danger of
spreading. Thore is no way of leaving
the city.
SAVANNAH EXPERIENCES.
Savannah, Ga, Sept.1-The earthquake
is the topic of the hour. Efforts te
reach Charleston have been made from
all points and failed.
AT TYBEE
the shock was more severely felt than
in the city. People on the island rushed
from their houses to the beach. The
oscillation lasted several minutes. The
lantern lenses in the light house were
broken and the machinery OF the lamps
became disarranged, The keeper hurried
up town as soon as possible and
arranged q temporary light while the
people on the beach ran hither and
thidher not knowing where to go aud
fearing every moment the tidal wave
would sweep over them. The water was
agitated and the waves rose high on the
beach. Houses on the beach swsyed
and shook az if they would fall to
pieces. A telephone message from
Tybee states that at 4 o'clock this morn
ing people were still gathered on the
beach.
RrH PARTICULARS FROM CHARLES
TON.
Charleston, =. e., Sept. 1.-The princi.
pal business portion Of the tcity wa
destroyed last night by. an earthquake
and hundreds OF persons rendered home
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