The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-02

tanned from Charleston. The general i'm
| preston is that the city has suffered Sc
| rlously. 1t is supposed the cable under
the Ashley river is broken.
At Tybee island, the mouth of the Ss-
vannah river, the lenses in the light house
were destroyed and the people on the IS
land telephone TO the city that they are IN
state of terror. There is no commnnlca
| ton with the mainland until daylight and
all the inhabitants are assembled in open
land. Their chief cause of tear is from 8
tidal wsve, the island having been swept
In August, 1881.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The Western
Carolina, sends the fellowing: A tram
dispatcher of the Atlantic Coast line has
just been In and says their section master,
stationed twelve miles from Charleston,
reports that the shocks wrecked bridge
| near there and says darkey from TOUR
| miles north of Charleston reports that the
railroad water tank was thrown down and
the ground upheaved, misplaeing tracks,
and that in several places the ground was
| cracked and boiling water was coming
from It. This report, coming from the
source il does, must be taken with some
grains of allowance. Our Augusta man
can get no one on his Charleston, South
Carolina, circuits. I guess the nearest
point Is st. Stevens. A special engine has
been started to bring any reports aYaila-
BILE, and If l get anything more viii post
you.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 1.-The people were
frightened, but no actual damage was done
at Catletsburg. At Ashland. .Ky., and Hunt.
ington, w. Va, the shock was more severe
and people rushed out of their houses
with children screaming and the swaYing
motion seemed to indicate that houses
we're falling.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Sept. 1.-Two distinct
shocks of earthquake were felt this morn
ing at :59 and 8 20 city time. The ex-
cltement has somewhat subsidized. In .
railway accident at Lingley pond, ten
miles from Augusta, the fireman was
killed. Another South Carolina railroad
train is in the ditch at Horse creek, four
miles from the city, and the fireman was
killed. The latter is stock train and is
now completely under water. The stock
has escaped with the exception OF four
horses. The shocks broke dams at Lang
| ley and Bath and the railroad tracks are
washed away.
J.H. AverllI, master of transportation
of the South Carolina railroad company,
teleprsphs from Summerville: Many
persons are killed and hundreds are home
less. The whole business portion OF the
city Is badly wicked.
CINCINNATI, Sept. IA singular effect
| of the earthquake was the feeling OF dizzI-
ness caused and nine people out of ten i'm
| aginer they were sick and many did not
know until morning that the disturbance
was in Mother earth. An operator In the
Western Nnion office withdrawing from
Washington felt sick and told the Wash
ington operator to hold on as he was sick.
"We've got q shock of earthquake here"
said the Washington operator. The
Cincinnati operator then knew what had
happened.
There was a decided difference IN the
severity of the shocks in different build
lngs and In different parts of the city
many people did not observe 1t at all, The
largest building In the city and one OF the
strongest, the government building, rocked
violently with three distinct vibrations,
and large clock was stopped. Mirrors
| were broken in large six and seven story
fats. In the city the vibrations were Sc
we're. Dishes were thrown from
from mantels, while chandeliers were agi.
tated as if by strong wind. Probably
| twenty or thirty meetings of lodges and
societies were broken up without motion
to adjourn. At the old ArmorY building
| on Court street the plasterIng on the cell
| ing was broken and most decided shock
| was felt in Cumminsville, In the northern
part of the city. Here lights were put out
| and bottles broken IN drug stores.
Throughout the state dispatches indi-
cate that the shock was general and II oc-
CURED almost at the same instant.
At Hamilton, boarders in the hotels ran
| from their rooms in fright and the walls
were seen to sway one and half In
ches.
At Canton, Ohio, four shocks were.ob-
served, the motion being from north &c
south. Half the populace was in the
streets talking of the strange experience
| tor long time after the event.
MT. VERNON, o., Sept. lit is thought
the undulations were from the east to the
/ west.
At Newcomerstown glassware ratified
distinctly.
at Denison q meeting was broke up in q
panic.
Coshoneton felt two shocks and the
same story comes from nearly every towr
| in Ohio.