The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-03

VI the details OF the injury worked nv
tne earthquake, and the list of damages
10 tne property is startlicg. A Iimitt d
sTctIoh IN the south of the CITY is 8 sam
PIE OF me whole. Standing at the post
once ana looking west, an almost
IMPAssABLE ROADWAY OF DEBRIS
meets the eye. The building of the
Chamber of Commerce is badly dam
aged, portion of the south and east
walls having been torn down By the
violence of the shock, and the buildings
OF wafer Evans and BOgsWed have also
sGneIeo' Whlle TIE heavy granite slabs
Nea0S and COU isr building are upon II q
sidewalk, leaving the Slate roof ann
portion OF the attic floor exposed. Al
most the entire rSof of the building
occupied by Myers cigar store anu
SmlthS stencil establishment, is torn
out leaving the upper floors exposed
The Pleng building, st tie corner of
Church Street, was badly damaged.
Mo OF the buildings on the street are
more or less damaged, but he violence
or the earthquake Is most perceptibIe at
the historic intersection of Broad and
Meeting Streets. The police station is
almost compile Z wreck. The upper
edge of the wall has been torn down
and that of the north wall has fallen on
the roof OF the porch, carrying it away
ana leaving only the large plated
pillars standing. The CITY Hall au-
parently escaped serious damage. but
is badly cracked on the east wall
and the Court House building is badly
damaged, the walls being cracked in
several places AID portions OF the roof
and gables being thrown to the ground.
The fire proof building seems to stand
as a rock, the gables of the north and
south porches, however, made of solid
brown stone. have been thrown 10 the
pavement below. This appears to be
The only damage done to the building.
The worst wreck in the locality, how
ever, is st. Mlchael's Church, which
seems to be doomed TO destruction. The
steeple, repairs on which had Just been
completed, seems 10 be intact, but it Is
out Of plumb md is in momentarv
danger OF falling The massive porch
has been Wrenched from he BODY of the
church and the building has been
cracked IN four places. One crack in the
north wall extends from the caves
to the lower window, two on
west face of the church extends the en-
tire height of the building. and one on
south walls also extends from the caves
down to the foundations. The cracks
are all Immediately under the steeple,
which it seems almost impossible will
stand for any length of time. The
hands OF the clock on top pointed to
five minutes of ten, which must have
been the hour of the first shock Tuesday
night. The buildings between Meeting
- To.-,-
damaged, the effects of the earth =
quake being the same in nearly
every instance. The front wall
of IJr. Dessaures' residence has been
thrown down. leaving the attic
floor exposed, and several buildings on
the south side of the street have been
similarly treated. West of King street
the most serious damage is to the
Episcopal residence. What a scene of
desolation the fashionable Boulevard of
Charleston presents. Commencing at
Broad street one passes through block
of burned houses. The fire starting at
No. 118. the third building from the cor
ner OF Broad Street on the east 81 e,
consumed the entire row of buildings
as far north as Tulley's old stand, next
to the grave yard. The few houses lett
on that side of the street are more or
less sha; tered and Quilted. The few
houses on the west side, north of Broad
Street, have not escaped the gen.
eral fate, though the damage is
tons OF the sire t. Tie immense
vacant tot Oh the west side of :he street
Is occupied by the families who lived in
The burnt houses and who are camped
ont OE the Sward with d few household
effects, saved from the flames. From
Queen Street TO HOrbacks Alley almost
every house is shattered, the tops of the
walls near the roof being thrown down.
RObb's lot on the east side of the street
is occupied by several hundred people
CAM ing out. Y Gloria no ell appears to
have escaped and the Academy of Mu
sic shows no signs of earthquake. From
Market to Hazel Streets, the damage
done does not sc. IN TO be as great
as in other portions Of the city.
4 special report from Mount Pleasant,
opposite Charleston, says that sink
near the German church, which on
Tuesday was perfectly dry, is now full
of fresh water. Near Shell Street there
is cabin occupied by colored man
that is surrounded by yawning chasms,
extending through the earth's surface
for ten feet and over. All around this
Inerc are Sl0RS Oh ITeSn WdIoE anu
masses of mud with green looking soft
substances that have never been seen
before. 1t is commended by many that
the mud and other substances found
around the YiEase are volcanic
matter. Just alter the first qust
shock on Friday night, there
was a decided and distinct smell
OIL escaping sulphuric acid gas over the
entire village The smell lasted through
out the night and was distinct in those
localities where the cavities in each
were the most numerous. Some say
portions of the mud thrown up by the
water spouts were strongly impreg-
mated with sulphur and that small por-
tons Of the sulphur can be found IN
the mud. Not far from Charleston on
the road to Summerheld, extensive
mounds of clay were thrown uD and
hilIocks of sand in most cases in the
shape of inYe ted cones, tAe hollow part
of which had evidently been formed by
the action of water returning into the
depths from which it had been raised
In many cases erupted matter
has steamed away from the
breaks in the surface of the earth