The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-10-08
TIE EARTHQUAKE At SEA.
Cant. vOgeI's Interesting Account " m
perience with the Charleston Shake-ohA'
ton Bar.

pClANHN ~"
ton Bar.
New York Sun: Capt. Leo Vogei' oil the
steamship Palatka, sent to the hyuroslapn
ic Office in Washington the hrst rePorI VI
the earthquake at sea. The City OF falaO-
ka rms between Charleston and Palatka,
Fla. In the summer she usually makes d
lew trips between this port and Charleston.
She is now lying at the pier Oh 0ne
charleston Steamship company AT tine iooC
Of Park place. Capt. Nogel sad;
son the morning OF the earthquake DAY
there was a regular tropical shower alohS
fine coast. The rain came down in sheets,
and the atmosphere vas terribly oppres-
Bive. The barometer went down TO ZS'9-
r. low barometer for that region: L nave
been studying atmospheric conditions on
the southern coast for a good many years,
and I knew something was going tohGppen.
1t looked like a strong blow from the south
west. My family had come down from the
mountains Of North Caralina, and were 60
ING to Florida with me. | told them the
trip would probably be stormy and disa-
greeable, and persuaded them to remain In
Charleston till the next trip.
1--WE sailed in the evening, and were about
fifty miles out Of Charleston and eight miles
off shore when we felt the earthquake. The
wind was southwest, and 81 considerable
STA was %ruring. Suddenly / experienced q
sensation as though the vessel was aground.
| knew this could not be. | looked out,
and the sea had become fiat. 1t was not
my first experience with earthquakes at
sea, and | knew at once that It was an
~earthuuake. My first thought was OF my
family in Charleston. Judging by previous
experiences, | knew that il the shock at
Charleston was as severe as where my
vessel was there would hardly be one
brick lett on another in that city.
| expected to hear that Charleston had
been knocked into smithereens. n
"The shock lasted maybe half q minute,
and was accompanied by a rumbling
sound. After it had passed, the sea gradu-
ally came up again and ran from the
southeast as before. | believe that hat
saved Charleston from utter destruction
was the sea acting as n water cushion and
mode ating the shock. We got the shock
Just FIVE minutes before it reached Charles
ton, and were fifty miles away, indicating
that the shock Travelled at the rate of
about six hundred miles an hour.
I'VE had to lie off the st. Johns bar for
q considerable time, and everybody on
board who had relatives or friends In
Charleston was in a state OF terrible anxi-
ETY.. At Jacksonville we got an linking oil
the calamity. / began t~elegraphing to
Charleston, but could get no response. At
last a message came: We are all safe on
board the Delaware My family were
in one OF the buildings that were
partly wrecked, when the earth
quake came. They believed, as almost
everybody there believed, that the next
moment would be their last. My little
children chung together in a group, asked
one another's forgiveness for every unkind.
npSa and said their pra ypra
1T is hard for anybody at this distance
TO nave any idea of the awfulness OF the
reality with which the women and children
in that city were brought face to face, andi
is impossible TO sufficiently admire the calm
courage with which they waited Tor death
after the first impulse OF terror had passed.
Such scenes as l have described were en-
acted all over the city. They show that in
a moment OF supreme peril there is some.
thing better n more admirable than the
nerve OF the stoutest.hearted man.
But one of the most pitiful features oil
the calamity is the effect upon women and
children OF the prolonged horror kept alive
by the continuance OF the shocks. 1t was
something that human endurance was not
made to stand, and many who were ANON
the calmest and bravest at first are brok-
en- down by the continued nervous strain.
They will require months to recover from
the wearing effects of those weeks"
Capt. Vogel a v that, while waiting foT
the question to be accurately determined,
he is inclined TO the opinion that the re is
about afoot more OF water on theCharleston
bar than there was before the earthquake.
This is the impression he got irom sound
ings made by him in bringing his vessel over
the bar. 1t is in he rmony with the state
ment t~elegraphed from Charleston that
fha lnuvar ND RI of thu fnxuo tf.vvo ri fhe
battery, seems to have sunk bodily till itt
height above the water is several inches
less than before the ~convulsion.
A terrible explosion occurred recently
at Altoff Colliery X, near Wakefield, York
shire. Seven men have been found dead
eight nave been rescued, and seventeen are
missing. In all probability the missin,
seventeen lost their lives.
Violent earthquakes have occurred
throughout Thuringia and other parts d
Central Germany.
The cattle disease that broke out in w
j. Etherington's herd, north OF Mandan
has proved to be the pleuro-pneumonia
The most stringent measures are bein,
taken by the Montana Stock Growers as
ISOLATION to prevent the spread OF the dis
ease. No halfway measu will be taken
but the herd will all be killed ana burned
The range interests are in no danger, al
there is $50 miles OF farming country be
tween Etherington's herd and the rang
cattle country.
The action OF Gov. Pattison Of Pa, ii
instructing the attorney general for til,
state to institute legal proceedings agains
the six greatest coal carrying railroads D
the United States, to prevent the contem
plated advance Of 10 cents a ton in tn
price Of coal after Oct. !, viii be OF far
reaching Importance, not only to the riva
railroads which have entered into tn
treaty, but to the coal consumers OF tn
entire country.
Beach and Hanlan had an amicable meet
ing at the Cambridge Music hall. BeacI
stated that he had made 10000 out q
his boat races, and now intended to retir
to his Australian farm. the unbeaten cham
pi on OF the world.
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