St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-02
STILL QUAKING.
Last Evenings Visitation COntiu-
ued Far Into the Night--The Dead
and DYING.

and Dying.
CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept. al a. m.-
Repeated earthquake shocks of mild
character have been heard and felt within
the last hour passing to the west of the
city and it is now reported that at every
shock down go several houses. Owing to
the demOralized condition of everything
here it is impossible to give correct facts
further than this.
THE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES
has not yet been ascertained. Probably
from so to 40 are dead and over 100 injured.
The loss of property will probably reach
IS, 600. 900 or $4,000, 900. Three-fOurths
of the buildings in the city will have to be
rebuilt. The disturbances have not at all
affected the wnter in the harbor, although
it is evident init aliIhe shocks are from
SOutheasterly direction and therefore from
the sea. There are no signs of Il tidal wave
as yet.
Later, 1850 p. m.-Another shock
has just occurred. rather more
severe than any since last night
at 9:55, knocking down several houses. a
mulatto man was hit on the head with a
brick at No. ITO Trade street and killed.
Olive Nickleby, a mulatto girl Ii years
old, was killed in Judge Bryan'a yard on
Church street. Isaac jenkins. cOlored;
wall fell on him in Crow alley and he was
seriously injured. w. Pratt jumped out of
a window at No. 155 Calhoun street; leg
broken. Capt II. A. De Sauser was pain
fully injured in the head while at his Office
Ellen Mitchell has serious internal
injuries. Mrs. Baynard of st.
Phillips street, near the public
school, fell down thessteps and dislodged
her hip bone. The nephew OF J. w. Old
enbuttel on East Bay street is seriously in
injured. Susan Day was seriously injured.
Mary Ann DreytOn (c0!0reO of No. 166
Philadelphia street sustained painful in
juries on the body and lower limbs. Kate
Hamilton (colored) of No. 6 Philadelphia
street sustained painful injuries on the
head from falling bricks. Among
THOSE WHO WE'RE KILLED
were Susan c. Middleton, colored, and
another cOlored woman, both of whom
were crushed under the fallen portico of
the main station house. On Larry street a
house was shaken down, but all the inmates
escaped except little colOred child named
Lizzie Frazer, who was crushed to death.
Just as the first shock came wagon bear
ing two men was passing the corner OF
Reid and Meeting streets, when the gable
end of store on that corner fell
and buried the unfortunates with
the debris, one of whom was
killed. 1t was very late when the
body was extricated and it was impossible
to ascertain the PERSONS name. Willie
Wheelock was seriously injured by a cor
nice Of house on his hips. He was taken
down on BOyces wharf and attended by a
L II, h,,oI-
but his spine is seriously injured. James
Dorm. who lives over Oldenbuttel'S reStaur-
ant, had his arm broken and
his shoulder blade knocked out of
place. MI NJ. J. Flynn, a compositor,
Jumped from the window of the composing
room in the alley when the first shock was
felt. He sustained serious injuries about
the shoulder and on the arm and head. At
l O'Clock this morning the body of colored
woman was taken out from the debris at
the corner of Meeting and Broad streets.
1t proved to be the body of Mrs. Jacob
Middleton. The unfortunate woman must
have been passing just as the east wall Of the
building fell. About the same time two
gentlemen who were near the Pavilion no
tel, heard piercing cries for help. They
went down Hazel street in the direction of
the cries and found white man and wo-
man half buried in the ruins of the LaZa-
rus building. They were extricated and
sent to the hospital. As the night wore on
the search for the dead and wounded
continued, StretcherS were imprOviSed out
of shutters. boards and loose plank and the
dead and wounded were conveyed to the
open space. Washington Park was
speedily
FILLED WITH IMPRoMPTU sTRETcHERs
on which the dead and wounded were
placed. DrS. Manning, Simmens, Ply,
Desmer. Mcdonald, Ruenal and others
came out and rendered all the assistance in
their power.