Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-02

| front of his sons store in Meeting street.
A stone OF great weight fell upon hlm and
broke one OF his legs, If not both, and he
is supposed to be dying.
Edward Lively, of Richmond, Va, was
walking in front of the City Hospital. A
side of the house fell on him and badly
| injured his back and head. He crawled
| from under the debris and saw some men
at store on the corner of MaZyck and
! Queen streets whom he supposed to have
been killed, as no LETT them lying on the
sidewalk. He staggered on as far as the
City Hall Park and there fell completely
overcome.
OTHERS DEAD.
Among those who were killed were Su-
san ihddeton. colored, and another col
Ored woman. Both were crushed under
| fallen portico OF the main station house on
| Mary street, near Meeting. The house
was shaken down, but all the inmates es-
capped except little colored child, who
was crushed TO death just as the first
shock came. A wagon bearing
two men was passing the
] the corner of Reid and King streets, when
the gable end of the store on the corner fell
and covered the untortunates with debris,
one OF whom was killed. 1t was very
late when his body was extricated, and 1t
| was impossible to ascertain bis name.
w. J. Flynn, a compoeitor on the News
and Courier, jumped from the window OF
| the composing room into side alley
when the first shock came. He was badly
injured,
DR.. II. Alexander, a young chemist, ran
out of his house and was crushed to death
by falling chimney.
Mr.. Hammond, brother Of Isaac Ham
mond, fs thought to be fatally wounded.
both his hips and legs being broken and
also his left arm. He said he did not
know whether he jumped from third
story window on Broad street or was
thrown. He crawled from the sidewalk
to the middle OF the road.
Ainsly Robinson was killed by the fall
ing OF piazza.
j. G. K. Richardson. living at No. IL
Friend street, was seriously injured in
the head by his house falling In upon him.
! His condition is very critical.
Three of the News and Courier COM
pOsitors were wounded by bricks while
| fleeing from the composing room.
A son of Lieut.. Hiedt Of the police
leaped from the third-story window Of his
house and was instantly killed.
ANNA HARRIS, colored, was killed
while lying in bed.
CHARLES ALBRIGHT was killed by a
falling brick.
SOME OF THE RUINS.
The South Carolina railroad Offices on
John street are cracked, but standing.
w. NJ. Bird a Co.'s Wholesale paint
store was shaken down. w. Il. Holmes
& Co., next door, are in similar condition.
Part of the wall of the bagging factory
was destroyed. the principal streets are
Uttered with rubbish. mhe City Hall
escaped damage, but the steeples of st.
Michael and st. Phillips churches win
have to come down.
All of the porticO OF Bishop Northrop's
residence was swept away.
The Academy OF Music appears to be
uniniured.
The Charleston Hotel loses ceilings.
The German Artillery Hall is some
what injured.
The water works building and reservoir
are uninjured.
Several buildings in Haynes street are
gutted.
The injury to st. Philips church, pre-
viously mentioned, is almost tndescrIba.
Bile. Several arches of the spire above the
clock tower are torn down.
Among the residences seriously dam.
aged are those OF Capt. Dawson, OF the
News and Courier, Gen. Seigling, the late
ST. Julien Ravenel and l.. e. Trenholm
c. o. WItle, George Gibbon, j. L. Sobias,
Fl. l.. Bulwinkle, Presley Smith and
Alderman Murray.
PIERCING CRIES FOR HELP.
Two gentlemen who were near the Pa
vilion Hotel heard piercing cries tor help
They went down Hazel street IN the di
rectIon OF the cries and found q white
man and woman half buried in
the ruins Of the Lazarus building
They were extricated and SEN
to the hospital. AS the night wore ON the
search tor the dead and wounded con
tinued. Stretchers were improvIsed Out
OF shutters, doors and loose planks, and
the dead and wounded were conveyed to
open squares. Washington Park was
speedily filed with impromptu stretchers
on which the dead and wounded were
placed.
MEDICAL AID.
Drs. Manning, SimOns, p. G.. DeSaus-
sure, Mellow, Ravenel and others were
out and rendered all the assistance in
their power. A large fire at the corner Of
Vanderhoof and King streets started after
the shock, and was burning fercely fol
two hours, when at last three streams
could Oe directed againstit, but this being
found unaFailing the tidal drain
was opened and another stream
WAS put on. At least ten houses
were on fire, and all OF them were com
pletely destroyed. Chief O'Neill pressed
into service every negro that could bt
found, either to cut wood or to hold
horses.
ANOTHER BLAZE.
A serious FIRE broke out on the south
east corner OF George and ST. PhiliI
streets, and two twO-story houses were
completely destroyed. The fire burned
about an hour before the arrival OF tht
fire engines, snch was the demand
for them. Fortunately there was
very little wind blowing and the
neighborlng houses, almost all o.
which are wood, were kept from
catching by means OF buckets. twas IL
O'Clock before the first engine arrived. A
number OF hands assisted the iremen In
stretching hose, and with one stream the
fire was kept from spreading until the ar.
rival OF another engine a little later, when
the fire was gradually subdued.
FRUIT STORE BURNED.
A two-story wooden building at No. 4S7
King street, on the west side, between
Vanderhorst and Warren streets, and oc
cupied by Schiadaresse Bros. as a fruit
store, caught fire during the convulsiou
and was burned to the ground. The fire
extended before the arrival OF the engines
TO the two-story wooden building on
the north side, occupied as q
clothing store, and TO two
story brick tenement on the south side
The two wooden buildings are totally de.
stroyed. The brick buildings we're par.
TALLY destroyed. At about 10:30 O'Clock
A Herman RndVare anooaadod In 0attin n a