The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-04

20 many poor wandering colored boy
or glrl, who fendeavOred to stop their
white friends, as they ran by in confus-
son TO supplicate that they would re-
nam with them until Judgment was
9oae- In many an instance, tremb-
with frantic energy the folds of some
white lady's dress and failing to express
their terror III words with scarcely NOV
ing bps, that they wanted only the
moral support OF friend in the hour
of distress and agony.
/ CHARLESTON, September "A sharp
shock OF earthquake was felt lust before
Ii o Clock tonight. Two buildings fell |.
a white woman. name unknown, was
killed by the falling wall this morning.
! Immediately after the first shock there
was an exhibition of Joy and voices of
consratulation were heard on every
side aud all mingled with words of
thanksgiving TO Divine Providence.
/ brothers aud sisters. There were
no strangers there. In the dismal
gloom some lady cried out
Get to the green % "Get TO the
green J" and almost in a twinkling the
c1lored people made a rush for that
/ haven of safety. 1t seems as if all
| Charleston was already there Women
! hurried along, dragging their charges
by their hands IN all Ii lds OF night
apparel. ItWas only. however, when the
older class of cOlOred people arrived that
/ the characteristic scene took place.
| They ran about III a crowd, with cries
OF Down on your face, down on your
knees, miserable sinners; pray to God,
my sister, my brother; pray, prav,
don't [ tell you night is come" Prayer
1 Io,-,
! screaming were kept up until daylight.
| At that time the watchword went
around, The battle is over. but the SOL
diers must not rest, and this order was
carried out on Wednesday and Thurs
day nights. On Thursday night, how
ever, on the Marion Square, the sights
and scenes baffled description. The
colored people were unrestrained,
and committed all manner of riot
Gus and trenzied excuses. Report
of their actions as they took place
would perhaps be considered bias
phemous. The first object, and one
that arrested everybod, 5 attentio was
an assem0iage of colored boys, about
half dozen in number, who had fallen
to the ground in a paroxsysm of reli-
gious frenzy. They were grovelling with
their faces down in the grass and were
singing hymns. The hymn was The
angels are rapping at the door," and
the refrain, which was sung rapidly
was "Oh, tell Ole Noah to bill on de
ark, to bill on the ark" This song
they repeated over and over again un-
til they were quite tired and
ceased from utter exhaustion.
In few minutes they were
fast asleep. The following additional
casualties are reported: Miss Lucy Ell
lott, ankle fractured; William Fidds,
knee dislocated; James Callahan, seri-
ously injured in the face and jaw; Geo.
Webb, skull fractured; Fred. Sampson,
colored, of New York, double fracture
of the left leg; Maggie Sanders,
white, amputated foot; IL. Bulwinkle,
head bruised and hip injured; Harry
DarOns and Lille White, children
bruised. Moses Brown colored jenitor
! of the Yost Building. leg amputated
Lucy James Gadsden, colored, fractured
skull; Sam Watkins colored
arm and leg fractured: Charles
t Rivers, coiored. amputated leg; Eliza
Flowers, colored, compound fracture o.
the leg; Mary Delany, colOred ampu
tated leg; Mary Williams, colored, face
and head badly bruised; Josephine
, Cambell, cOlored, scalp wound.
Additional deaths-Florence Rector
Sarah Glover and Mary Lee. The tota
loss at Summerville is estima ted a
$300,060. Two slight shocks were re-
ported to-day in Charleston, but they
" re not felt by many persons.