Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-09-10

the department to extend. The following
despatch was received by cable to day
from Queen Victoria:
BALMIRAL, Sept. 3, 1855.
IT, the President NJ the UHdod states:
! desire to express my profound sympathy
W tn the sufferers 10y the late earthquakes,
and await with anxiety fuller intelligence,
which hope NAV show tn effects to have
cSigGcdJ THE QUEEN.
Acting Secretary of the Treasury Fair
child issued II circular letter today in
forming the employees that the rule pro
hibitng the circulation of subscription pa
pers in the department would be suspend
ed in the case of the Charleston relief
fund, and the heads of the bureaus would
be designated to receive subscriptions.
Comptroller Trenholm has received two
kilograms from Summerville, the first Of
which was from the local relief commit
tee, and reads as follows; Remember
that Summerville's distress IS very great.
! Prompt relief in tents and money is
needed" The second despatch was
sent by f. b. Fishburne, and says
"Sent 800 tents direct to this place. The
shocks still continue and many are home
less" The president OF the board of dis
trict commissioners has issued an address
| to the public expressing the desire that
everything possible shall be done to mani
fest the sympathy of the community for
! the sufferers in Charleston and Offering
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buttons. Special performances Will be
! given in all the principal theatres and
! places of amusement i'll Washington for
! the benefit of the Charleston sufferers.
The New York chamber of commerce
will hold Il special meeting Monday ut p.
! m. to devise means for aiding the Charles
ton sufferers. The cotton produce and
petroleum exchanges are doing what they
can for the wrecked city.
Another Heavy shock,
NEW York, Sept. 3, 1910 p. m.-Anoth-
er heavy shock and earthquake occurred
at Charleston, :. c., "A few minutes ago.
All wires to that city are lost
An Explanation of the Phenomena.
CHARLESTON, ). c., Sept. 3.-The News
and Courier will publish tomorrow the
following explanation of the recent earth
quakes: "rnere can be no doubt that the
various earthquake shocks had their or
igin in the islands of the Mediterranean
and in Greece and Italy. On Aug. 30 was
reported the occurrence of Il destructive
earthquake throughout Greece aud Italy
That there had been two eruptions of
Nesuvius, and that the volcano was still
very active. These eruptions gave vent
to the internal commotlon which had pro
duced the quaking of the earth in the
vicinity, but the shocks being cOmmunl-
Gated to the earth have travelled in va
rlous directions, IN some with more vio-
lence than in Others as they were felt the
same day throughout Egypt, but doing
little damage.
Scenes in the Desolated City of Charles
town.
An eyewitness of the effects of the
great earthquake shocks at Charleston,
5. c., gives the following graphic descrip-
ton of the scenes which fell under his
personal observation
The first shock occurred at 9:53, as was
indicated by the public clocks, the
hands on all of which had stopped
at that fateful hour as though to
mark the end of time for so many who
had heard the preceding hour pealed
forth by st. Michael's chimes without
though but OF long and happy life. The
second shock, which was but faint and
crisp echo of the first, was felt eight min
utes later.
AS it passed away the writer started
homeward, to find the scenes enacted on
Broad street around the NcWs and courier
office repeated at every step Of the way
St. Mlchael's steeple lowered high and
white above the gloom, seemingly unin-
jured. The station house. Il massive brick
building across the street, had apparently
lost its roof, which had fallen around it.
a little furt her on the roof of the portico
of the Hlbernian Hall, a handsome build
ing in the Grecian style, had crashed to
the ground, carrying down part OF the
massive granite pillars with it. All the
way up Meeting street, which, in respect
Of its general direction and Importance,
may be called "the Broadway of Charles
ton" the railroad was piled with debris
from the tops OF the walls IN passing the
Charleston Hotel, which, to carry out the
comparison above indicated, occupies the
position OF Stewart : uptown store in New
York, the third shock was felt-this about
ten minutes after the secondhand, of
course, caused the greatest alarm in that
neigh bOrhoOd rs elsewhere. At Marion
square, corresponding exactly with Tn
ion square, New York, ii great crowd col
lected as even the edges of the wide
spaces embraced in it could not be reach
ed by the nearest buildings in the event
of their fall. From this crowd composed
of men, women and children of both races
arose incessant calls and cries and lamen-
tations, while over the motley half
dressed throng was shed the lurid light
of the conflagration which had broken out
Just beyond the square Immediately after
the first shock, and had now wholly en-
veloped several buildings in flames. In
three other quarters Of the town at the
same time similar large fires were OBJ
served under full Roadway, and the awful
significance Of the earthquake may be
most fully appreciated, perhaps, when it
Is said that with these tremendous fires
blazing up all at once around them and
threatening the city with total destruc-
ton, the people whom you met or saw
gathered together in groups in the open
pladces, evidently did not give them
a thought No one watched the ruddy
flames or the pillars of cloud rising high
into the still night air. Each one was too
intent in listening, with strained senses,
for the dreaded recurrence of that horri-
bic growl or groan of the power under the
seas and under the land, to give a thought
to the new terror, though it had threaten
ed his own home and many homes in the
doomed city. The crowds poured in from
every direction TO the square just describ-
ed, as though it had been indeed a charm
ed circle and life depended on passing
within its grassy bounds. Street cars,
carriages and other vehicles were ranged
/ in lines on the streets surrounding the
square, while the horses stood as though
smiling the ground in anxious inquiry
/ The cOlored people everywhere We're loud