The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-05

sufferers, and | am asked extent OF
suffering and what amount and what
forms OF relief are required. Please
advice me how TO answer. Any mes
sages you may wish TO send on TINS
subject will be forwsi ded free over
| the lines OF this compauv.
N0RVIN GREEN, President.
CHARLESTON, s. c., September 4, 1886.
Norvin Green President Western Union Tel
egraph Company, New York;
Damage very great. Any money
contributions will be thankfully re-
ceived.
| WIN. +. HAGER, Mayor pro tenn.
A sub ,cription list has been opened
at the Manhattan Club in aid oil the
Charleston sufferers. The total amount
OF subscription received at the Cotton
Exchange to aid the Charleston suf-
fer rs is s5628; at the Petroleum Ex-
change, $1,000.
SENTIMENTAL LOS rs.
A specia from Charleston, S. O., to
the New York TINES says; In addi'
ton to the material losses there are
sentimental Losses which are beyond
all estimate. The Chsrlesi oman sets
great store by the house In which he
was born, with all OF its associations.
Today an Episcopali5n lady, whose
husband is certainly ruined by the
catastrophe, said, 81 could stand It all
il st. Michae he'd been spared. My
grand parents were DO h baptized and
married there, and within its walls /,
tor, was married" This feeling for
old 81. Michaels is gu to general, even
among these who ara not Episcopa-
lisne. The old building was pant Of
the family trad tons of the State, and
as such was claimed by everybody.
The great dI cad now is the approach
OF the equinox 10 three weeks the
equator will bsla' CO the sun aud we
will be in the midst Of the great
storm era. The equinoctial gales
have always been disastrous
in Charleston. In TACT, last years
disaster YVES so great as to attract ma.
tional attention. IL is estimated that
every house In the city has bad its
foundation shaken by the ca thquake.
Walls have heen rent, chimneys and
seeples are off their tquate, and there
is nothing plumb about the city. If
an equinoc'a gale Of usual severity
should strike the city before consider
able rep ,irs ca1 be made, nearly every
house in the city would be blown
down. The gale comes sometimes as
late es the first week in October, but
last year 1t came In the last week in
August. IL will thus be sc en- that the
city Ia in imminent danger at any
moment. This would cause such a
crashing OF timber, brick and mo tar,
a, was nevfr before hesrd of. The
temperature has changed 8 as to warn
the people that the storm is at band.
The eff C; OF weeks storm and pelt.
ing rains upon the HOUSE lets
women and children would be appall.
ing. While your correspondent
writer, six ladies' are reported
to be dying in the tents from flight.
The effort made earlier in the dsy to
clear away the Debris has been apan-
doned, and people are settling back,into
the melancholy Of yesterday. Two
aldermen OF each ward, with three
citzsns thereof, have been appointed
N condemn unsafe build ngs. Mr..
Bradley, chaiiman OF the committee,
ba, entered upon his duties. He
knows not what 10 do, whele to begin
or where 10 stop. II is freely declared
that II fire he'd swept the city 1t
would have heen Irsfarable, ioT in
that case the insurance would have
helped to repair the waste places. Night
has settled around tie city. The air
Is cool ano the gloom OF the les. three
days ttill prevails.
THE "sUN's" CHARLESTON SPECIAL.
A special from Charleston, Z. O., to
the New York Sun says: The attempt
at repairing, started yesterday, csused
a torrlbls rue Ia the price OF labor.
Masoos get SO a day; negro laborers
get 80 cents an hour, and hands are diff
iicult to get at even these prices.
One Of the very touching inciden's
of Tuesday hiss not yet found lis way
into print. Chsr'etton has a larGe
Catholic population. After the first
and severe shock they Immediately
rushed for their churches, where the
blessed sacrament Is a ways kept, aud
before which Is perpttual light A
priest said today that as soon rs lie
felt the shock be rushed for the yard.
In the streets were gathered thousands
Of Catholics who wanted to enter the
church. He closed and locked the
iron g,tes, keeping the crowd
from catering the church, which
he feared might fall at any
moment. Whtn he opened the
church that the multitude might
look upon the tabernacle where rests
the Holy Ghost, instant Y all fell
on Their knees aud began praying.
DoOning his cas'ock he went out
among his people, who began TO
gather in great numbers, and who fsl =
Irg on their knees before him, made
their confessions. He gave absolution
o each, paNi0g among them and hear
ing "a many individual confessions as
possible. The priest says that neatly,
If not all, the other priest, of the city
did as he had done. Thtre have beed
many births since the fist shock.
No less than ten are already reported.
Tnis morning a lady was taken to
Washington Square in the rg 'nies OF
motherhood, and soon thettaf Ell she
was the mother OF smiling twins, the
resting cay, although a hundred pec-
pie witnessed it, Yesterday II was
but tile talked # thst baby was
born there in the morning in the pres
ence Of hundred persona These
are earthquake tint $, and cal deli
caciss are not over strictly observed,
although the utmost respect and
Difference is shown in every instance.
Prof. j. &. Meg 20, OF the United
States Geological survey, srrivtd here
this morning from Washington. II
came" he sand to your correspondent,
ito ascertain the odgin Of the earth
quake. The effect is of i tie moment
to silence. The origin is OF great in
ter,st to the entire scientific world.
People want 10 know the condition of
eartu under which earthquakes occur.
1t seems to be settling Of the EARTH"
WHAT do you think OF the state.
msnt that there WIS an atmosphere
disturbance a, the time OF the first
shock ?'
II take no stock in such a report
II was imagination, OF course. There
al l.. II