Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-09-03
Cut Off From Communication With
the Rest OF the World, FIX
pecting Death
At Any Moment, the Situation
Of the Stricken People is
Horrible.
The Earth Still Continues to Shake
The Effect in Other Parts
Of the Country.
The DESTROYED City,

CHARLESTON. S. c., Sept. 1.-Two slight
shocks of earthquake has been felt since
the first, at 1925 this morning and one at
about 1 80 p. m. Neither doing any further
destruction. Not even during General Gill
more's bombardment of this city has there
ever been such deplorable state of affairs
here. They city is literally in ruins and
the people are living in the open squares
and public parks. There is a great rush to
the railroad depots to get away, but owing
to the earthquake no trains have been able
to be dispatched from the city. Telegraphic
communication is also cut off save one wire
Of the Southern Telegraph company,
which is crowded with anxious private
messages. 1t is impossible to depict the
ruin and desolation that prevails here. Not
a single place of business in the city is
open save drug store, which is busy pre-
pairing prescriptions for the wounded. 1t
is impossible, also, to give any correct es-
tipsikef the killed and wounded as bod
iesSssaas Constantly being disinterred from
the debris of the wrecked houses.
Women and children are running about
in the open air, terribly agitated. There
are three or four steamers in port, includ-
ing the buoy tenders, and many of the in
hoh re
these boats. Fortunately, the weather has
been good and the hardships are not as Sc
ton, however, is becoming horrible. Cut
off from communication with the rest of
the world, afflicted and haunted with the
prospect of Immediate death, is about the
condition of this community. No trains
have departed or arrived here in twenty
four hours. 1t is said that all the railroads
leading into the city are crippled. The
statement Is made that all the railway
tracks are twisted into the shape of snakes.
AT Has p. NJ Repeated earthquake
shocks of a mild character have been
heard and felt within the last hour. pass
ing to the west of the city, and it is now
reported that every shock threw down
several houses. Owing to the demoral-
lied condition of everything here, it is i'm
possible to give the correct facts further
than this. The number of casualties have
not yet been ascertained. Probably from
thirty to forty deaths and over 100 injur ed.
The loss of property will probably reach
S8,OOO,OOO or S1OOO0OOO Three-tourths of
the buildings in the city will have to be re-
built The disturbances have not at all
affected the water in the harbor, although
it is evident that all the shocks were from
a southeasterly direction, and, therefore,
from the sea. There are no signs of tidal
wave as yet.
LATER-11:5 80 P. M.-AnOther shock has
Just occurred, rather more severe than any
since last night at 945, knocking down
several houses.
FROM NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-The earthquake
Tuesday evening which carried destruc-
ton and death to Charleston was pre-
Ccutu ny OIlSl ouoChS, oCSAiiAAhS oS S"A y
as last Friday, which were felt at South
Carolina and Georgia. The Sunday issue
of the Charleston News and Courier con-
tanned two columns describing the earth
quake and it's effects. Summerville, where,
according to these accounts, the earth
quake was first and most seriously felt, is
a health resort of Charleston. The coinci-
dence is worthy of note that the earth