New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-03


Quaker graveyard. The few houses left on that
side of the street are moro or less shattered and
gutted. The few houses on the west side Of the
| street, north of Broad-st.. have not escaped the
general fate although the damage is not great
in other portions of the street The immense
vacant lot on tho west side OF the street is occu-
pied by the families who lived in the burned
houses. and who are camped out on the sward with
| the few household effects saved from the flames.
From Queen-st. to Horlback's Alley almost every
house is shattered, the tops of the walls the
| roof being thrown down. The large build
ing at Clifford and King sts. formerly
| Sllcox's furniture store. has to oil outward
| appearances, miraculously escaped From Horl-
backs Alley to Market-st the damage is not as
great it might have been. Robbs lot on the east
side of the street is occupied by several hundred
people camping out. The Victoria Hotel appears
to have escaped, and the Academy of
Music shows no signs of earthquake on the outside
at least. From Market to Hazel-st. the damage
does not to be great in other portions of
the city. The Waverly House is eternally unin-
jured. The large red brick ing-house, how
ever, Immediately opposite and next south Of
the corner of Beaufain-st., has suffered badly,
the top of the wall under the caves having been
stripped off on all sides. The handsome block of
stores from Beaufaiu to Wentworth SITS has been
sngularly preserved few of the French plate glass
fronts being broken, although here and there
parapet is thrown down and bricks displaced from
walls The Masonic Temple seems to have escaped,
and the damage to the buildings between this
point and Calhoun-st. seems not to be great as
far as outward appearances 90. In Wentworth-st.
the handsome hall of the German Artillery has
been badly damaged; the northeast and northwest
corners OF the building have both gone.
Coming down Meeting-st. from CalhOun-st. the
signs of the earthquake are plain. Both the
High School and the Freundschafts Bund hall are
comparatively uninjured. The building Of the
Charleston Water Works on George-st is uDin-
jured, and so, strange to say, is the immense
100000 gallon reservoir on the premises,
although the brick house opposite in George-st is
badly damaged.
The shock on Monday night severed the pipe
through which water was forced into the stand
pipe, and during the Of the fires the pres
sure was applied directly to the main. This pipe
was, however, replaced, and the stand pipe which
was uninjured. was filled with water.
All over the city the injury of the same ch ar
acter. report from Mount Pleasant opposite
Charleston says that sink the German
church. which on Tuesday was perfectly dry sand,
is now full of fresh water. Near She'll
st. there is cabin occupied by colored
man that is completely surrounded by yawning
chasms, extending through the earth's surface for
ten feet and over All around this there are sinks
of fresh water and of mud with queer look
ing soft substances that have never been seen be-
| fore. 1t is contended by many that the mud and
other substances found around the village
are volcanic matter. Just after the first
| great shock of Tuesday night there was
| decided and distinct smell of escaping
sulphuric acid gas tho entire village The
smell lasted throughout the night. and was dis
tinct in those localities where the cavities In the
| earth were most numerous. Some say that portions
| of the mud thrown up by the water spouts are
| strongly impremated with sulphur. aud that small
| portions of sulphur can be found in the mud.
| Not far from Charleston on the road to Summer
vile extensive mounds of clay were thrown up and
hlocks of sand in most cases in the shape ofmverted
| cones, the hollow parts of which had evidently
| been formed by the action Of the water returning
into tho depths from which it had been raised. In
many cases the erupted matter had streamed away
from the breaks in the surface OF the
| earth to a distance from twenty to fifty
feet In other places there were assures almost in
varably extending from north to south. These
| cracks were not wide, and extended downward al
| ways in santng direction. The matter
that was thrown up was Of q dull, dark
slaty color and was mixed with gravel.
There was also little shale, and in general the
mud resembled that which is thrown from the
bottom of the phosphate pits along the river The
water of some places had the taste OF our
artesian we'll water, but in many instances
it was Just as clear and limpid as from noun
tain spring. These evidences of the great convul-
sion are not sporadic they extend far and near In
every direction from the city limits of
Charleston to Summeryille, and at the lat
ter place it was found from trust
worthy information that the cracks and
assures are everywhere visible for miles and miles
around. Strangely enough some of these were in
a ctive operation and the constant shocks that
were felt at Summerville sent the water out OF
these assures in jets to the height of from fifteen to
twenty feet.
This was evidently the result of the cracks being
filed with water and then the sides opening and
closing by each succeeding shock. These appear
ances were, of course, suggestive of still more
violent eruptions, and there was constant dread
everywhere that there would be general inunda-
ton caused by extraordinary force OF the
earthquake Not only was the water emitted in
the low places where it might be expected to exist
all the time but tops of tho highest elevate ,ns
the mud could be seen. This latter fact indicated
that the force was being exerted at rather more
than the depth that was at first thought TO he the
limit of the force.
Near Ten Mile Hill fatal accident occurred on
Tuesday night. The down Columbiatrai jumped
the track. Engineer Burns, and Fireman Arnold
colored. badly injured by the tremendous
leap which the train took in the dark under tie
unseen influence Of the shock that dismantled the
road. 1t is said that the earth suddenly gave
way and that the engine first plunged down the
temporary declivity. 1t was then raised on the
top of the succeeding terrestrial undulation and
having reached the top of the wave a
sudden swerving Of the force 10 the right
and left hurled the ill-fated train down the EN-
bankment How it was done plainly ind-
Gated In many places along the track of the
South Carolina, and Northeastern railroads. and
for spaces of several hundred yards in width, the
dreadful energy of the earthquake was expended
In Eirsf fhera mt.