Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-09-11

that they had escaped without injury find
I themselves confronted by damages which are
entirely beyond their means to repair. 1t is
| for this reason that there is so much anxiety
| Two of the Government engineers are ex>
pected, and in addition to these the Secretary
of the Treasury will be requested to detail a
| number of competent civil engineers from the
Office OF the Supervising Architect of the
| Treasury to asst in the work of examining
thoroughly everv building, so that the extent
of the injury and whether the building is
| habitable and can be allowed to stand may be
! definitely ascertained.
| The Relief Committee, with the assistance
| given and promised, will be able very shortly
to provide adequate shelter to the homeless
| refugees, and can furnish them also with such
| food as they quire There are in Charles
| ton many persons who are suffering for want
| of bread and meat, and who are unable to
| help themselves. Their wants, however, begin
| to be known and will be quickly met. The
Government tents have been ere ted in en-.
| campments in different parts of the city,
where fall attention will be given to sanitary
requirements; but it is calculated that at
least five Thousand persons will need shelter
| for weeks to come. and it is proposed to erect
huts on the public grounds for the accommo>
datien of those for whom the tents will not
| suffice Ample accommodations will be pro-
vided for the colored refugees as well as for
the whites
| OBSERVATIONS OF SCIENTISTS.
a pf
Mendenhall and Magee, returned from an
exploring trip north of the city. They visited
| Ien-Mile Hills, Summervlle and Lincoln.
| They give no cheering news. At Summer.
| vile they felt nine distinct shocks, AMI saw
| the people are terrified and leaving that sec>
ton or the country. Some strange freaks of
The earthquake were found and photographed.
| Most of the 800 houses at Summeryille ara
wooden buildings, and as a CONSEQUENCE
the damage is largely confined to their
interior. OF one building the founda
| ton had been affected on
one side to on extent that the structure had
topped over IN a half-reclining position while
I TIC remainder of the foundation was min,
paired. The foundation of both sides of an,
other house was found parted and shot outs
ward, permitting the structure to drop to tho
ground. Va many houses one chimney has
been destroyed and the other left intact,
large number of geysers have been found
some tea feet in diameter, and nothing has
been found long enough to probe their depth.
None are spouting, while all were full of
water. Summer0ille has Jared worse than
any other part of the country hereabouts.
and it will be almost denopH,-.-
EFFECT ON THE CoLoRED PEOPLE.
Il would be simply impossible to exagger-
ate or to depict in sutlic entity descriptive
language the effect of the visitation of Tues
day night on the colored people of Charles =
ton. There never was until within the past
few days, an opportunity of noticing pub
lie exhibition of superstitious fear to the de.
gree that has existed among all classes of the
,olored people since the shock of Tuesday
night They fed from their homes, and as
ran hther and thither, through binding
clouds of pulverized mortar which was
shaken from houses and rose again from the
streets, they filed the air with dismal groans
Of despair and lamentations of terrified dis
tress. AS usual with them in their funeral
devotions, the name Jesus was most frequent-
Iy used, and, as if supplicating God face to
face, they shrieked ou5 in the very helpless
ness and pathos Of despair such
sentences as do, my Master, Jesus. have
mercy on me-" "Oh, sweet Jesus, save me,
save me;'' LET me live through this night,
dear G ID, my Savior" "Hold me up once
more, Thou blessed Christ, my Master" AM
other fearful supplications, which intensified
the horror of the situation and went far to-
ward demoralizng the white people, who
were also rushing blindly nither and thither
As usual, the faces Of the white men and
white women in the time of danger was
sight of sudden joy in the gloom to many
poor wandering colored boy or girl, who en-
deavored to stop their white friends as they
ran by in confusion to supplicate that they
would remain with them until the "judge>
ment was DONE" In many an instances
trembling girl sank down on her knees and
seized with frantic energy the folds Of some
white lady's dress, and, failing to express
their terror in words, with scarcely moving
lips betokened that the wanted only the
moral support of friend in the hour Of dis
| tress and agony.