The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-09-06
ANOTHER SHOCK
FELT AT CHARLESTON, $, c.,


CHARLESTON, September 5-There was
another shock Of earthquake at Hos to.
night, 1t was not very severe and the
duration was about two seconds. The
prevailing belief here tonight ia that the
worst Ia over and the inhabitants are rea-
sonably secure from further vlsitations of
earthquake, The belief is based mainly
upon the assurances OF scientists,
who say there is only the slightest
probability Of q reoccurance OF the
more powerful shocks after the lapse of so
much timo. With ths feeling OF compare.
tive security thus enRendered ciliZ9ns
who left th0 city in hot haste to elule
danger have begun to return In amGll
numbers and visitors are putting in an
appearance. -Four times as many people
were registered for dinner at the hotels
to-day than any time since thOearIhquake,
Very few OF the regular inhabitants will
return to their homes during the week.
All OF the one or two hundred inComera
Of to-day expressed surprise at the enor.
mouaness OF the destruction, "Why"
said one from Washington, ~ had no idea
that what had read was true, The &C.
counts in the press are read with great
interest, but no one has any idea OF the
true condition OF Charleston"
In this connection 1t Is proper to state
that no reports have been received here OF
material misstatements made by newspa.
per representatives. Difficulty would be
encountered In attempting TO exaggerato
the condition OF Charleston at this time.
- TREAEs or THE QUAKE.
Pedestrians in their wanderings through
the ruins to-day discovered many new and
interesting freaks of the earthquake, The
building Of Mai, ]. FL. Robaum was badly
wrecked. In ono bedroom Of the house
the strangest freak Imaginable took place.
On ono aide OF the chimney oil paintings
we're thrown from tho walls with such
force as to destroy the canvas and crash
the frames, while on the mantlepiece q
few feet away in tho same room stood a
slender tall vase which retained it's per-
pendicular. On another wall in the room
Two or three small photographs in frames
were left undisturbed while within three
feet OF them the plastering WAS wrenChed
of and ground into dust, and the acantling
upon which tho lsthing was nailed was
torn out Of its place.
Tho tents from tho War Department
and from Wilmington were mostly put up
in the park facing tho battery and over
looking the confluence OF the Coop.
or and Ashley rivers leading out
to the bay. Forts Sumpter and
Moultrie Of rebellion fame are plainly in
view. Within space 200 feet wide by
l,5C0 In lCngth probably 1000 persona
were Camped. With the full blush oi
morning arose the voices of the negroes
in the public places. rho get up praying
and shouting.
GREAT REVEALS,
BY 1O:3O o'clock services were in pro.
gres, at dozen points. A greater revival
was probably never witnessed than tho
one in Washington Square, aud tho same
may be 0aid Of o half dozen or more
others, All OF the sermons treated
Of tho calamity which has Wis
tied Charleston. At 4 o'clock
there was a general mass meeting at
the corner OF Broad and East Bay streets
near the city postotiiCe. Thousands oil
people attended and eloquent sermons
werc preached by volunteer ministers.
The only deaths resulting from the
earthquake reported to-day wero those OF
two colored children, the result OF ex.
posture. It 10 now hoped that the demo.
lition Of St. MlChaDls steeple will not be
neCeslary, as the foundation appears
TO be sound. Tho First Presbyterian
church proves to bo badly damaged and
the Charleston college Is irreparably in.
jured. Tho residence Of late Congress.
man N. r. o'Connor will have to be re.
built. Tho old Charleston Club House
afterwards the United States Court House
| is almost q complete wreck.
Colonel Bachelor, Of the QuarIermas-
ter's Department, who arrived here to-
/ day with Colonel Ovens, has been over
th1 city and In an interview said, " have
seen enough to say that the ruin Is wide
spread"