The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-09-08


i: passed through the city. Its coming
was presaged by quite number of ex
plosions, dim and distant, which com
menced to be heard fully five minutes
before the vibration was felt. The wave
was somewhat more pronounced than
the two which had preceded-one at So
a. N. and tie other at 5.15 p. m.-and
as it passed bv to the northwest there
followed sounds which indicated falling
walls or buildings. This was the last
vibration last night.
Soon after it had passed a man ap-
peared and advised the people to so to
their houses, stating that he was the only
scientific man in the city and that he
was authority for the statement that there
would be no more shocks. This advice
was unheeded, very few people leaving
the ground.
st daybreak there was a movement,
and as the sun rose and as there had
been no additional vibrations, many of
the people pulled up their tents and de-
parted to their shattered homes, in the
earnest hope that they had participated
in their last picnic in the park.
During the progress Of the fire in
King near Broad street, on Wednesday
morning, woman who occupied the
second floor of one of the burning build
ings, tied her infant child in feather
bed and threw it from q window to the
ground. The child was unhurt.
No damage Of consequence is reported
on the sea islands.
The following is the official list Of
those who were killed by the earthquake
or have since died from their injuries:
WH1rE.-Peter Powers, Mrs. c. B.
Barker, Ainsley II. Robson, Robt. Alex
ander, Chas. Albrecht, B. P. Meynardie,
Patrick Lynch, Annie Torck, Mrs.
Rachael Ahrens and Goldie Ahrens, a
child of Mrs. Earnwel.
Co1oRED.-Thos. Wilson, VIM. Deak,
Anna Glover, q. Sawyer, VIM. Grant,
Alex Miller, Jos. Rodoff, Hannah
Smalls, Marie Barnwell, Maria Barnwell,
Jas. Brown, Angelic Davids, Eugenia
Roberts, Robert Redof, Grace Fleming,
Rosa Murray, Oliver Mckelbey, John
Cook, Clarissa Simmonds, Hannah Har-
ris, Sarah Middleton, Rebecca Ward,
John Cook, Sera B. Sawyer, a colored
baby.
Mrs. David of 6S Nassau street died in
three-quarters Of an hour from nervous
shock.
4 special report from Mount Pleasant
says that sink near the German Church
which on Tuesday was perfectly dry
sand, is now full Of fresh water. Near
Shell street there is cabin occupied by
q colored man that is 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 masses of mud with queer
looking soft substances that have never
been seen before. 1t is contended by
many that the mud and other substances
found around the village are volcanic
matter.
Just after the first great shock on
Tuesday night there was decided and
distinct smell of escaping sulphuric acid
gas over the entire village. The smell
lasted throughout the night.
Not far from Charleston, on the road
to Summerville, extensive mounds of
clay were thrown up, and Lillocks Of
sand, in most cases in the shape Of IL
verted cones, the hollow part Of which
had evidently been formed by the action
of wafer returning into the depths from
which it had been raised.
The evidences of a great CONFUSION
are not sporadic. They extend far and
near, in every direction, from the city
limits of Charleston to Summerville, and
at The Latter plaee it was found from
trustworthy information that cracks and
| fssures are everywhere visible for miles
and miles around. Strangely enough
some of these were in active operation,
and the constant shocks that were felt
at Sun1merville sent the water out Of
these assures in jets to height Of from
fifteen to twenty feet.
The horror of the situation in Sum
merville on Wednesday was much inten-
sifed by certain manifestations that were
not observed in Charleston to any great
extent. All during the day there was a
constant series Of detonations, now ease,
now west, and from al possible direc
tons. It rescnbled the discharge of
heavy guns at intervals Of about ten
minutes, and was like the sounds of a
bombardment at a great distance. All
of the explosions were not accompanied
by tremors of the earth, as it was only
occasionally that the earth would Quake
from subterranean discharges.
4 remarkable fact was noted III Sum
meryille in respect to the bulging of the
water from the interior of the earth.
Nearly OF The wells had been at low
water. There was sudden rise IN all
these wells, and the additional water was
pure.
In St. Andrews Parish, for ten miles
on the other side of the Ashley River
bridge, the country is cut up by small
assures and mud holes Of froIu an inch
10 two feet in diameter. People living
in the parish say that the mud and water
boiled up from five to ten feet in height,
and they all seem to he II moss de-
moralized condition.
One old negro woman said that the
view Of the city was most appalling;
that after the shocks were felt cries from
the city could be distinctly heard, and
That almost Immediately the light from
the fires Lit up the heavens o7erthe city.
The colored residents Of the parish
thought that Judgment day had come,
and commenced crying and praying for
mercy
In Smmmerville, the people rushed
ail1i;gi1tel ITO TIE inky black darkness,
and the general gloom and despair, the
vailjor of women, the shrieks of chill