The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-08

together; and Tins lesson OF The drea(
!; visitation We may hope, too, Will neve
!, be forgotten.
Arrived at his home, the writer found
the same scenes Of destruction and wrecl
which marked nearly every other home
in the city. All the houses in the neigh
borhood had suffered ser: ,,,sly, ani
streets, yards and gardens were filled
with fallen chinneys and fragments O.
walls, while tie walls that were lef
standing were rent asunder, in many
eases, from top to bottom, and were
badly shattered in every instance.
Women and children, reused from
their sleep or interrupted in their eve
ming pursuits by the sound OF ruin being
effected above and around them, rushed
out into tie streets and huddled together
awaiting the end, whstever it might be-
Invalids were brought out on mattresses
and deposited on the roadway. Nc
thought was given to the treasures left
behind in the effort to save the peculiar
treasure Of lie Itself, suddenly become
so precious in the eyes Of all, the invalid
womon and robust man alike.
Until long after midnight the streets
were filed with fugitives in sight OF theil
homes. Through the long hours that
followed few were the eyes, even Of
childhood, that were closed in sleep.
Charleston was full of those who
watched for morning, and never, in any
city, in any land, did the first gray
shades that mark the approach of day
appear so beautiful and so welcome to
the eye as they appeared to the thou
sands of people who hailed them this
morning from the midst of the countless
wrecked homes in our thrice-scourged
and still patient, still brave, still hopeful
and still beautiful City by the Sea.
CHARLESTON, S. c., September g.
The people are gradually taking account
of the details Of the injury worked by
the earthquake, and the list of damages
to property is startling. a limited Sec
ton in the south Of the city is sample
of the whole.
Standing at the postofice, and looking
West, an almost impossible roadway OF
debris meets the eye. Most of the build
ings on the street are more or less dam
aged, but the violence of the earthquake
is most perceptible at the historic inter
section of Broad and Meeting streets.
The police station is almost complete
wreck. The upper edge of the wall has
been torn down and that of the north
wall has fallen on the roof Of the porch,
carryingit away and leaving only the
large huted pillars standing.
The City Hall apparently escaped seri-
Gus damage, but is badly cracked on the
east wall.
The Court House building is badly
damaged, the walls being cracked in
several places and portions of the roof
and gables being thrown down.
The Fire Proof building seems to
stand as g rock The gables of the
north and south porches, however, made
of solid brownstone, have been thrown
to the pavement below. This appears to
be the only damage done to the build
ing.
The worst wreck in the locality, how
ever, is st. Michaels Church, which
seems to be doomed to destruction. The
steeple, the repairs on which Lad just
been completed, seems to be intact, but
it is nearly out Of plumb and is in mo-
mentary danger Of falling. The massive
porch has been wrecked from the body
of the church and the building has been
cracked in four places. One crack in the
north wall extends from the caves to the
lower windows; two on the west face of
the church extend the entire height OF
the building, and one on the south wall
also extends from the caves down almost
to the foundation. These cracks are all
Immediately under the steeple, which it
seems almost impossible will stand for
any length of time. The hands on the
top of the clock pointed to five minutes
of 10 o'clock, which must have been the
hour of the first shock on Tuesday night.
What scene Of desolation the fash
ionable boulevard Of Charleston presents
Commencing at Broad street, one passes
through block of burned houses. The
firc, starting at No. lis, the third build
ing from the corner OF Broad street, on
the east side, consumed the ensire -cv
of buildings as far north as Tully's old
stand, next to the Quaker graveyard.
The few houses left on that side of the
street are more or less shattered and
gutted.
The few houses on the west side of the
street north of Broad street have not
escaped the general fate, although the
damage is not as great as il other por-
tions of the street. The immense vacant
lot on the west side of the street is occu-
pied by families who lived in the burned
I houses, and who are camped out on The
sward with the few household effects
saved from the flames.
There is rather more cheerful feeling
tonight, but no sense Of security will
repair the shattered houses and renew
the ruined homes. Offers of assistance
are coming from different quarters, and
it is expected that the City Council will
organize relief committee tomorrow.
Despite the loss by the earthquake,
Charleston is in as good position as eve,
for the transaction Of the usual autumn
ts,Saaa: There is ample warehouse and
wharf room, the congresses are III t",,,? .,,m
land 4eSelants and factors are ready to
deal expeditiously ~lrA al business that
offers. This statement is made to correct
an existing erroneous impression that
the commercial facilities OF the port are
impaired.
Las. mig ut the old scenes Of fright and
fea- we're enacted in the public squares
and parks. Frail women, co,ne of then!
almost dead and infants in arms, were
driven to the necessity OF spending the
niobt on the square with only such COY.