Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-11

distribute tents 10 the homeless, and to rem
der such aid a. it may be within the power
of the Departmental extend.
| DISPATCH from TIE QUEEN.
The following dispatch was received by
cable to day from Queen Victoria, from
Balmoral, addressed to the president of the
United States: Il desire to express my pro-
found sympathy with the sufferers by the
late earthquakes, and await with anxiety
further intelligence, which l hope may show
the effects to have been less disastrous than
reported"
| EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA.
| SAN FRANcIsco, September Sat Grass
Valley, Cal, sharp earthquake shock was
| felt at II o'clock last night.
MERCED, CAL September IA slight
earthquake was experienced here last night.
RENO, NV, September 3-At $50 this
morning slight earthquake, passing from
south to north, was felt here. Twenty Sec
onds later a second shock, almost i1nper-
ceptible, occurred.
MORE HORROR IN STORE.
New YORK, September IA special from
Charleston to the Times says in addition to
the material losses, there are sentimental
losses, which are beyond all estimate.
Charleston set great store on the house in
which Mackey was born and all of it's asso-
Citations. An Episoopalian lady whose hus-
band is certainly ruined by the catastrophe,
said: 81 could stand it all if St. Michael's
had been spared. My grandparents were
both baptized and married there, and within
it's walls l, too, was married" This feeling
for old st. MichaePs is quite general. Even
among those not Episcopalians the building
was part of family traditions, and of the
state, and as such was claimed by everybody.
Great dread is apprehended of the equi
no1. In three weeks the equator will bal
ance the sun and We will be in the midst of
the great storm era. The equinoctial gales
have always been disastrous in Charleston.
In fact, last years disaster was so great as
to attract national attention. It is estimat-
ed that every house in the city has had its
oundation shaken by the earthquake. Walls
have been rent, chimneys and steeples are
plumb about the city. If an equinocti8l gale
of the usual severity strikes the city before
considerable repair is made, nearly every
house in the city will be blown down. The
gale comes sometimes as late as the first
week in October, but last year it came in
the last week of August. It will thus be seen
that the city is in imminent danger at any
moment. This would cause such q crashing
of timber, brick and mortar as was never
as to warn the people that the storm is at
hand. The effect of weeks storm and
pelting rains upon houseless women and
children would be appalling. Six ladies are
reported as dying in tents from fright. Eff
forts made early in the day to clear away
the debris has been abandoned, and the poe.
pie are settling back into the melancholy of
yesterday.
CHARLESTON, s. c.. September 4-Prof.
w. 7. MCGEE, OF the United States gaologi-
cal survey, went to Summerville on Friday
to investigate the immediate or remote
causes of the recent earthquake. He stop
ped at Ten Mile Hill station, around which
the earthquake was particularly active, and
paid special attention to the matter which
numerous through the belt of country ex-
tending from Disher's about four miles
from Ten Mile Hill, north and south and
likewise east and west, for an indefinite dis
lance along the seacoast.
Prof. MCGEE collected specimens of the
soil and mud which had been thrown up,
and samples of the waters which flowed
the cavities on the farm of Charles Lee, the
largest of which is about sixteen feet square
and sixteen feet deep. At Summerville |
Prof. MCGEE continued his investigations
and talked freely with the gentlemen there.
One of these gives the Ne,cs and Courier a
sketch of Prof. McGee's statements. Prof.
MCGEE said that the ornamental work and
gingerbread" work in Charleston was IN
many instances out of proportion to the
size Of the buildings, and these parts would
be apt to fall and carry away portions of
the general structure. He said that when
he left Washington he thought that he would
have very little difficulty in determining the
course of the earthquake, but
confessed to have been much puzzled by his
Contrary to expectations he
found that the assures were not uniform in
their direction. Some extended from north \
to south, others from east to west, aud on
this account he would hesitate to give any
scientific declaration. He did, however,
give the opinion that the shocks were the re-
suit of local land slides. By the term "local'
he does not mean that the shocks can be
traced to any particular place, at Summer
vile, Charleston, or elsewhere, and remarks |
that there was no connection between the |
shocks and the supposed volcanic action. !
His impression is that the area covered by |
the land slide theory has been from forty to |
one hundred miles under the bed of the sea. |
He was confident, moreover, that the worst |
was passed. This statement, however, was |
made prior to the shock at II O'Clock last |
night. He left Summerville this evening /
tinue his observations. Prof. McGee's re-
marks have had an excellent effect. Up to |
yesterday about 1 ZOO persons, or one-third |
Of the whole population, had left Summer
Vile, and it is expected that Prof. McGee's |
statement will stop any further exodus.
Tongaline is valuable remedy; while
Of service in all forms of neuralgia, its
best effects are seen in treating neu-
ralgias of rheumatic origin. I have not |
met q single case Of this ordinarily
troublesome disease which did not |
speedily get relief from Tongaline. I
san recommend it.
J. F. Stevens, II. D., Shsbbona, ILL.,
The Word, Obey.
The word was introduced into the
ceremony by men to express and en-
ohasize the view OF men that the man is
he head of the woman. Indeed, the in
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