The Portland daily press., 1886-09-03
The Pecuniary Loss Now Estimated
at So, ,ooo,o 900.
Scarcely Building In the Entire City
Escapes Injury.
Streets Almost impossible on Ac-
countsof the Ruins of Buildings.
The Number of Deaths Officially Re-
ported to be 33.
The List of Wounded Will Number
over 90.
A Graphic Description of the Scenes
of the First Night.

| CURED at 1 o'clock this morning. Hotels,
residences, public places and all business
houses are deserted. The inhabitants are
| all in vacant lots over the city and suburbs
| Although every effort is made to establish
| some kind of order everything is still in con-
| fusion. No newspapers are published and
| telegraph facilities are very bad and unre-
| liable.
There were many piteous scenes enacted
throughout the night. Hardly any one
slept and walls and cries of affrighted chill
dren, as they chung to their parents, beseech-
them to save them were heart-rendering.
Added to these were the groans of the
wounded and dying, who, owing to the ex-
| istiDg Generalization lay almost wholly un-
| cared for in open lots and streets None of
| the newspapers were published this fore
| noon. An cffolt will be made to bring about
| some kind of order today. A special to the
News and Courier from points in South Car
| olina, ranging to the extreme northwest to
| the sea coast, report severe shocks of earth
| quake show more or less damage to property,
although without loss of life so far as is
known: In Orangeburg the people became
so much alarmed that many moved to Co
lumbia AS the details of the calamity in
this city are gatheredi its effects become more
and more alarming. 1t is feared also that
much distress will prevail as by far the lar
gest part OF those whose property has been
wrecked or seriously damaged belong to the
poorer classes. The people are as cheerful
as possible under the circumstances and are
trying to restore order out of chaos. The ag-
gregate loss is expected to reach $5,0O0O0O
Wharyes and warehouses and business fa-
cilities Of the city are generally unaffected
by the catastrephy. 1t is impossible to give
any correct estimate of the lOssaof life. For
two days and nights the people have done
nothing but hnddle in the squares. Small
dnfo hnd ia no inn in M
out the dead from the debris or succor the
wounded. The first systematized efforts to
get at the facts are now being made. Lists
of the dead recognized and reported up to
has been commenced. The list of the wound
ed will go into the hundreds. About seven
eights of the buildings in the city are either
badly damaged or entirely wrecked st.
badly wrecked that it is feared they will have
to be taken down. Scarcely a building in
the city escaped injury The official total of
deaths is 33. The wounded will probably
number 100.
The following is the official list of those
who were killed by the earthquake, or
have since died from injuries:
White, Peter.
Powers, Mrs. G.
Barber Ainsley H.
Robson, Robert
Alexander, Chas.
Albrecht, B. p.
Meynardie, Patrick.
Lynch, Annie Il.
The following colored people were killed:
Thomas Wilson.
VIM. Dean.
Anna Slower
z. Sawyer.
VIM. Grant.
Alexander Miller
Joseph Rodoff
Hannah SmallS.
Mary Barnwell.
Maria Pinkney
James Brown. r---s~-