The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-09-10
81 ~ From the Colunbis Register.
WORK ! 3 OF THE EARTHQUAKE.


sen cHAnx1sToN N RUINS.
charleston, 8. G., Sept. There Was .
terrible earthquake here last night at $50
o'closkt The principal business portion of
the ciY was destroyed aud hundreds of
persona wsfs rendered homeless. Men
were fhntic and women were beseechins
mercy from the Almighty. The main sta
ionsh J'se, city hall, Hiberniau hall and
ussy kher' we'll known public buildings,
'issiudpg 81: Michaefs Church, were ire
rsssblt damaged. Many people were seri
Ioueiy q NOT fatally ,injnred.
h Blb sKest presented aspectacis of the
utmost horror, Even women, armed with
hatshsts, fought valiantly to rescue impris
oned unfortunates.
Meeting street, from Broad to Hasel, is
a wreck and is lined with uufortunates.
To add to the horror of the scene, many
hres broke out and we're Intellectually fought
by the department. The night was hide
Gus with the groaus Of the dying, the
screams Of tho wounded, and the prayers
Of the uninjured.
At precisely s.25 this morning aaother
ware swept over the city, coming, as did
the other, from tho Southeast, and going in
a Northwesterly direction. BY that time
many of the people who had been out in
the public parks aud open places all night
had 8entured into their houses to get cloth
Ing and something to eat. Tho approach
of tho shock was heraldcd by the usual
rumbling sound, resembling distant thun-
der; then it gradually approached, the
earth trembled and heaved, and in three
seconds it had passed, the sound dying out
in the distance. This is the only wave felt
since 2.30 q. m.
The police station and many other public
buildings and fully two-thirds of the resi-
dences in the city are uuinhabitable, being
wrecked, either totally or partially.
At the time Of the first shock fires broke
out in five different places in the city.
About twenty houses were destroyed by
fire.
All the stores arc closed, and scarcity
Of PfaSsisa' i. fss5sa~HHs' H Ja Jfe~ Cav van. of Sf
soTseach the stores to sell them.
The South Carolina railroad track above
and below Summeryille is twisted, in places,
like snake.
st. Michaels church is shattered and the
steeple will come down, likewise the steeple
Of st. Phillips. The steeple of the Uni
tartan church has fallen. The porticos of
Hiberian hall and tho Main Station house
nre demolished. There is much injury to
houses on Fast and South Battery. The
portico Of the Ravenel mansion is down.
The shock was severe at Summeryille
and Mt. Pleasant and Sullivau's Island, but
no loss of life is reported there.
Fissures in the earth are noticed. from
= s";.h fine sand, apparently from a great
depth, oAuuoo.
Raveners, September 1.-The railroad
is under water in some places between here
and Charleston, twenty-five miles north Of
here, and tho earth has oavcd in in several
places.
The losses by FIRE and earthquake cannot
be accurately estimated, but can be placed
safely at S5,0O0,00O.
rusoUauoUr TIE STATE.
Abbeville, Sept. Last Dight at ten
minutes before 10 o'clock this village ex-
periepced the most severe earthquake that
was ever felt in this section of the country.
Tho shock lasted for a long time aud in
creased in severity until the end.
At that hour religious exercises were be-
ing conducted in the Methodist church,
which wus filed with devout worshippers.
Presiding Elder Smart had just delivered
an eloquent and soul-stirriug sermon from
the text Prepare to meet thy God" when
the first quiver of the shock was felt.
The loose bricks from the tops Of the
ohimueys fell, and We learn that the plas.
teriug fell from the rooms in many houses
but no house, so far as We have learned
has been seriously injured.
Lancaster. Sept. 1.-The first shock ol
the earthquake was felt at 1905 p. m
Tuesday night, and lasted about two min.
utes. IL was very severe. Houses rocked
and articles were shaken from shelves. Tn,
people were greatly frightened and rushet
into the streets. There was wailing and
prayers by tho negroes on all sides, th'
thirteen negroes in tho Jail pleading to &c
out pitifully. There was no damage t
property in tho town except the tops o