Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-09-08
Earthquakes.

On Tuesday night, August 81, at
1--WE minutes to ten O'Clock, all the
public clocks in the city Of Charles
ton stopped, and that is how it
comes to be known to the minute
when the greatest earthquake ever
experienced by the people of the
United States took place. The shock
was felt in twenty-five states The
fsrthest point north that the shock
was felt was at Boston, and the far
thest point west was in Iowa The
centre of the disturbance was at
Char !eston, South Carolina At the
time indicated above strange inde-
scribable, hoarse, aggressive rumb-
ling noise, that seemed to be in the
earth, in the air, in the sea, every
where, startled the people of the city,
and the next instant houses began
to uemble, reel, and crumble TO
pieces. A CONSERVATION, only such
as will be witnessed among the last
on the last day, siezed upon the
minds Of the people. They rushed
out of their houses, leaving the dead
and the dying. Some Of the people
were crafty swearing, some were
crying, some were singing, some were
hysterically laughing, but not one
human being in all that city was in a
composed state of mind, the very at
mosphere seemed loaded with an op-
pressiveness that almost crazed peo-
pie. The streets were almost i'm
psssible from the rubbish of houses
that had been shaken down, and here
and there was O crack in the thor
oughfare through which there came
a kissing wind lsdened with sand
from the depths below. A number
of fires were started in the city by
inhamable material being tumbled in
to fire places, but people were indif
erent TO the loss OF property. The
safety Of the individual was for the
time thought of. Sixteen shocks
were felt during the night. Between
ifty and one hundred persons were
killed. The wounded amount to sew
eral hundred. Telegraph and rail-
road communication WAS cut off from
the city for several days. Summer
vile, about twenty-five miles from !
Charleston, was nearly destroyed by |
the earthquake. A passenger train |
was thrown from the track near there
by the shocks snd the engineer and |
fireman were killed. At Langley the |
shock burst the mill dams and one
thousand feet Of railroad track was
destroyed. The earth cavsd in in
many places Hot water is reported
70 have been forced out of crevices
n the ground in number of places
n South Carolina Clocks stopped
N Columbia, bells in steeple towers
rang, the Governors mansion was
partly wrecked.
Everybody ID Augusta Georgia,
was scared out of their houses.
at Scranton, Pa, people were |
scared out Of their homes by the
of their houses. There were
forty mutes in the Valley House that
night they felt the earth quake and
became greatly alarmed.
The Charleston, 8. c., clocks indi-
Gated 5 minutes to 10 o'clock when
the earthquake overlook the city.
The earthquake was first felt at
Pa, at 7 minutes to 10 O.
clock
Three fourths of the city of Char
lesion will have to be rebuilt. The
loss is estimated at S10,000,000.
About IL o'clock on last Friday
night another terrific quake shook
Charleston. Two houses were thrown
down and a woman was killed by a
falling wall. The people are living
in the streets and in the fields. The
same quake was felt in many other
parts of the country.