Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-09

sniffiing the ground in anxious inquiry
Inc colored people everywhere were loud
and unoeesing in their declamations of
alarm, in the singing of hymns and in
fervent appeals for Gods mercy.
| Arrived vt his home, the writer found
the same scenes Of distraction and wreck
which marked nearly every other home
IN the city. All the houses In the neigh
borhood had suffered seriously, and
streets, yards aud gardens were filled
with the fallen chimneys and fraQments
OF walls, while the walls that were left
standing were reft sunder in many cases
from top To bottom and were badly shat.
tered In every instance. Women and
children, reused from sleep or inter
rnpted In their evening pursuits by the
sound OF the ruin being effected above
and around them, rushed out into the
streets and huddled together awaiting the
end, whatever II might be. Invalids we're
brought out on mattresses and depoaited
on the roadway. No thought was given
to treasures left behind In the effort TO
save the peculiar trea rre Of life itself.
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The following are ths casualties re-
ported: Mrs. Williams jumped from the
second story of her residence and injured
her spine badly. Mrs. +. Galliot, COL
ored, was struck by brick opposite the
Pavilion Hotel and her head badly in
jured. Her daughter was badly hurt in
tho same wny. Mrs. Robert Martin was
badly hurt. Mr.. M. j. Lynch was des-
perately hurt in front of his sons store,
in Meeting street. A stone of great
weight fell npon him and broke one of
his legs, II not both. He was taken to q
place of safety in dying condition.
Father Duffy was with him. DIR. Chase
informed reporter that he had been
called away TO attend to two persons who
had been injured ut the house of Mrs.
Lazarus, at GA Hazel street. A colored
woman in an unconscious condition was
found in front Of the market in
Meeting street, while policeman said he
had seen two bodies in King street, north
of Broad street. DIR. Buist informed o
reporter that there were in the city park
at the corner of Wentworth and Meeting
streets no less than IL wounded persons
who had already received his professional
attention. Among them was young girl
whose leg was broken. A colored man,
named Charles Rivers, was struck by q
fmling wall near the corner of King
street and the Battery, and his left leg
was broken, His wife, Sarah Rivers, was
also badly wounded at the Hame time.
Moses Brown, ,colored, was badly wounded
on King street by falling bricks. One OF
the sons of Mrs. j. N. Robson, living on
Coming street, near Cannon, was badly
hurt by the falling of the piazza.
A very sad case was that of Mr.. Il.
Alexander, young chemist, who was
crushed to death at boarding house on
Meeting street. He had just bought a
small steam pleasure yacht and took his
first and last trip in II last evening. Mr..
Hammond, brother of MIR. Isaac Ham
mond, is thought TO be fatally wounded,
both his hips and legs being broken and
also his left arm. He crawled from the
sidewalk TO the middle of the road, and,
on being removed uttered the most heart
rending shYieks. A eolored woman in
Beaufain street was killed. Isabella
Howard of Ravenel court, was seriously
injured. Mr.. Heidi of Chalmers street,
was seriously injured. 1t is reported that
one Of the factory girls living at the
boarding-house at the corner of America
and Blake streets was killed. A coIored
woman living in the yard of Captain
| Smalls house on Bull street was killed,
and colored woman was killed also in
Pitt street. The house of Mrs. Annie
Torck, on Secession street, fell in and
wounded her, it isthought fatally.A young
girl named Jassen was also injured at the
same piace. Upon being taxed nome ahe
commenced bleeding internally. II is
| thought she will die. Miss Mamie Pal
mer, received dangerous internal injuries
| by falling chimney. Mrs. Ainsley Rob-
son was killed by the falling of piazza.
| Julia Smalls, q colored infant, was
killed. Lavinia Jacobs, colored, OF
| Chalmers street, was killed Mr..
j. O. Il. Richardson, living at No. IL
Friend street, was seriously injured in
the head by hia house falling in upon
him. His condition is very critical. His
colored servant was dangerously hurt.
Edmund Lively of Richm md, Va, was
walking in front of the city hospital when
| the side of house fell ON him and badly
| injured his back and head. He crawled
from under the debris and saw some men
/ at the store on the corner of Mazyck and
Queen streets, whom he supposed to have
been killed and he left them lying on the
sidewalk. He staggered on as far as the
city hall park and there fell completely
/ overcome.
A mulatto man was hit on the head
| with brick and killed. Olive Nickleby,
a mulatto girl, IL years old, was killed at
Judge Bryan's yard, on Church street.
Isaac Jenkins, colored, was seriously In
jured. W. Pratt jumped out of window
at l55 Calhoun street; leg broken. Cap
tain II. A. De Saussure was painfully in
iured in the head while at his office.
Ellen Mitchell, mulatto, received in.
ternal injuries. Mrs. Baynard of st.
Phillips stleet fell down the steps and
dislocated her hip bone. The nephew OF
j. W. Oldenbuttel, on East Bay, was seri,
ously injured. A colored girl in the yard
of q. w. Williams, Jr., Atlantic street
ia seriously injured. Susan Days was
seriously injured at Philadelphia street
Mary Ann Drayton, colored, of No. II
Philadelphia street, sustained painful in
iuries on the body and lower limbs. Katt
Hamilton, colorod, of 6 Philadelphia
street, sustained painful injuries IN the
head from falling bricks.
Among those who were killed were
Susan Middleton, colored, and another
eolored woman, both of whom wer'
crushed under the faRen portico OF thu
Main station house. On Mary street, neal
Meeting, house was shaken down, bui
ali the inmates escaped except q littl'
colored child named Lizzie Frazer, wht
WAS crushed TO death. just ns the mrs
shock came wagon bearing two men WA
passing the corner OF Reid and hint
streets when tho gable end OF the store OF
that corner fell and one OF whom wa
killed. Willie Schillee was seriously IN
iured by cornice of tho house falling OF
his hin. James Dorm, who lives over Old
onbuttel's restaurant, had his arm broker
and his shoulder blade knocked out o
nlaoe. AT l O'Clock this morning tn
body of a colored woman was taken on
from the debris at the corner of Meetinl
and Broad streets. II proved to he th
hody of Mrs. Jacob Middleton, who mus
have been passing as the east wall OF Tn
building fell.
SIXTEEN SHOCKS AT COLUMBIA.
OoLuMDIA, s. O., Sept. 1.-The frs
shock was felt here at SAB last night nm
the second soon afterward. They wer
fearful. Buildings swayed from SIDE
aide and the earth rose and felt ike IN
! wayes of the ocean. People rushed madl
from their houses into the streets. Som
sprang from the windows and were u
| iured, Many Of the most substantif
buildings were shaken to- their fonndi
tions and the walls cracked and spiunt
! Five minutes after the first shock IN
second came and 10 minutes later thirt
Other shocks followed until Loo a. m
when the eighth shock was felt, mn
! this one lasted for minute an a.,