Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1886-09-08
CITY IN RUINS !
Charleston Wrecked b,
Earthquakes
Fire Adds 10 the Horror Of the
Calamity.
DcsolatiOn and Death OH Every Hand
From so to 40 Persons Reported Killed
-Enrth Rises and Falls Like the en- at
Columbia, =. C.--Negroes Think the
End OF the world Has Come.

An earthquake such us has never before
been known in the history of this city swept
over Char.e ston last night shortly before II
o'clock, causing more loss anil injury to
property, and far more loss Of life than the
cyclone of year before The city is
wrecked, the streets are encountered with
masses of fallen bricks AMI tangled telegraph
and telephone wires, and up to an early hour
it was almost iml ossible to pass from one
part o, the city to another
Many were killed and larIc number
wounded. Fires broke on in different paris
of the city Immediately after the earthquake
Broad rect pre- entS sp. ctac'e of the
utmost horror. Even women, armed with
hatchets, fought valian'ly to rescue impriS-
oncd nforunates, Meeting stree, from
Broad to Haze, is wreck Tho night
was hideou, with the bowls Of the dying, the
grolns the w)In 10 | and the prayers of
the injured. The principal bushes portion
of tho city is destroyed, an hundreds Of
persons are rendered homeless. Mon were
frantic women bcSceching mercy from the
Almighty, an children in tears. The main
station house, the City Hal, liibcmlan Hall
and many Other well known public bulli igi
| wcro irrcparab y damaged.
Up to 10 O'Clock this morning there were
10 distinct shocks. The c ty is a complete
wreck. St. Michaels and st. Phillips
urcheS are i'll ruins. So is the police sta
ton and mny other pablo buildings, and
fully two-thrds of tho residences in the city
are uninhabtable. being w ecked eli her t.
tally or partially. 1t is imp s>iJlo at tn $
limo 10 give correct eStml'c of the clSunl-
tics 1t is supposed that lctwccn - an 40
persons have been killed and several hundred
l,l Of ,sl,
broke out in five different places in the city.
About 20 houses were destroyed by fire
Scarcely 100 houses in tic city are occup ell
at this time, the people being all caclmpcl
in the open places. All the stores are closed
and a scarcity of provisions il feared, no.
frCm want of provisions, but because no
one can be got to reach the stores to sell
hem.
The city s wrapped in gloom, and business
Is Ell tirely suspended. People generally 10.
main in the streets in tents and under I'M
povi5cd shelters, and will camp out tonight
| fearing another sho'k The gas ks are
Injured, and probably the city will be with
| out Light. There is much injury to mansions
on The east and south Battery. The portico
| of the Ravenal mansion is down. Hardly Il
| house in the city os 'aped injury, and many
are so shaken and cracked tnat heavy blow
would bring them to the ground.
Not single plac, of bus nos in the city is
open save a drug s. ore, which is busy pre-
| pairing prescriptions for the wounded l. is
! impossiblo also to give any CORE It estimate
of the killed and wounded, as bodies are con-
stantly being disinterred fro n tho Debris of
tho wrecked house, One undertaken state,
that he had furnishel eli hit collins up to
room to-day. Many of the deal are lviny
IN urried, principally the poorer classes OF
colorc boopie,
The compostors of the Nc'cS and Courier
decline TO work Tonight, expecting fresh
shock of earthouake, an the paper cannot,
therefore, issue tomorrow.
Repaafed cartbouake shocks of n mild
chor5ctar have been hearl and fell within
theiast h1ur, paSsinr to tho west of the city.
| One more severe than any since 0;5j las.
night Knocked down several houses. Up to
the nrcsent time it is roughly estimated
that 10 TO ~ persons hav, been kil,cl and
over lOi injured The loss 10 property will
nrobably reach s., OI0 900 or $40 OOJ, OOJ
| Thr,, fSurtb, ~ tho buildiu,r, /, III, cit,.