The times., 1886-10-01
NEWS SUMMARY.
Electric Flashes at Joliet Enable
the Citiz"n- to See the APP
prOach ofa Cyclone
Cloud.
Two Infiammatory Sunday Orators
at Kansas City Arrested and
an Unruly Mob Dis
DerSeu.
The Wall of the Medical College ut
Charleston Knocked Down-Pco-
pie Frightened from Their
Beds,
AGAIN SHAKEN UP.


last night, and soon after 5 a, m. yes
terday another shock, severe enough
to shake houses and frighten people
from their beds into the street, was
felt. Most of the people in the city
were asleep ut the time, but the shock
was sufficiently strong to awaken them.
The features of the phenomenon and
of the atmospheric conditions were
somewhat peculiar. The weather on
Sunday and Monday nights was warm
and sultry. After 10 o'clock at night
the wind seemed to have died out en-
tirely. On Monday night indications
of cSiange III the weather were APP
parent. Frequent flashes of sheet
lightning were seen in the north and
occasional rolls of distant thunder were
heard. In the opinion of some people
these were seismic detOnationS. The
sky over Charleston all this time was
entirely clear and the moon shone
brightly. Shortly after midnight the
wi,ad set i'll rather briskly from the
east and clouds began to gather in tho
sky. Some persons says that there was
Slight shock about O'Clock, but if
there was it was not sufficient to arouse
any one who waS asleep.
1t was 5:15 when the shock arrived.
This was about the Severest that has
weeks. Houses were very perceptibly
shaken, and i'll many houses plaster
ing was thrown down. The shock is
VariousIy estimated 10 have lasted from
three TO ten seconds. There seems to
be some question whether it was ac-
c0mpailcd py the usual rum bling
sound. A man who was on the second
floor of large brick building says that
the shaking Of the house, accompanied
10y rattling Of sashes. the grinding of
the joists, and the fall of plastering
was all that he heard. A policeman
stationed at the intersection of Broad
and Meeting streets says that he felt a
very slight movement of the earth, and
distinctly heard noise. Another man,
who was on the street on his way to
his place of business, says that the
earth moved violently, and that the
sound was like the explosion of 900
pounds of dynamite underground. The
worst feature of the shock was addi-
tional injury to the medical college, Of
which q large part OF the wall fell. 1t
is now u gaping ruin, and apparently
must come down to the basement.
A shock to-day is reported also from
Summerville Sumter, Blackville, Or
angeburg, Newberry, Augusta, and
Savannah. Within three minutes aft
er the shock was felt here there were q
good many people on the streets, al
though comparatively few of them
were women and children. The side
walks have been so cleared OF debris
that most pedestrians had returned to
the habit of using the pavements. 1t
was observed this morning, however,
that many persons kept the middle Of
the roadways while walking through
the streets. There was little inter-
ruption to business and none whatever
in the work of repairing, which is pro-
crossing as rapidly as can be expected
under the circumstances. The weather
to-day was cloudy, with brisk winds,
which are to be expected at this time
of year.
TIE STORM AT JOLIET.
JOLIET, H.. Sept. 20.-The scene of
Saturday nights cyclone in this city
has been visited to-day by fully 10000
people. 1t is remarkable fact that,
although fifteen or twenty houses were
completely demolished and scattered,by
the terrific wind, yet not person was
fatally hurt. Everybody seemed to be
aware of the approach of the cyclone
some minutes before it struck the city,
and secured safety by fleeing to cellars.
The cyclone came from the southwest
straight up the Desplaines River. The
constant flashes of lightning lit up the
sky so that the funnel-shaped monster
could be plainly seen as it came whirl-
ing toward the city with q roar like a
hundred locomotives blowing off steam.
AS it reached the city limits it turned
east on Monroe street, demolishing
houses, barns and outhouses. The
large two-story new house of Owen
Kirk, on Joliet street, and the house
and barn of William Pudney, on the |
same street, were the first demolished. |
An instant after they were struck the
air was filled with boards, limbs of |
trees, sections of roofs and pieces of |
heavy timber. The bridge on Monroe |
street was picked up bodily, and de-
posted almost intact two blocks away. |
A heavy grindstone belonging to a |
man named 'Pudney was blown $50 |
feet. The residences of Hermann |
Schlim, John Day, Hod Brown, Jerry |
Buckley, Patrick DAILY, Peter DAILY, |
William Barrett, John Moher and Will
lam Hines were scattered to the winds. |
Pieces of some of these houses were |
carried quarter of mile. A large |
number of houses were moved from
their foundations and wrenched out of |
shape, many of them with great patches
of shingles missing from the roof. The
house Of Peter DAILY, on Chicago street,
was turned upside down. The roof |
now rests on the ground, and the front
door is high up in the air. The large
elevator of III. $. Carpenter d Co. is
badly wrecked. The poles of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company were
twisted off like pipe-stems, the streets
being blockaded with q mass of tangled |
wires, Telegraph and telephone wires
were rendered useless all over the
southern part of the city.
Along, Fourth avenue great holes
out of the hard gravel
road. ~Eye-witnesses state that these
holes were made by balls of electricity
or fire Yhieh bounded along the ground
corner q Mississippi and Fourth ave-