Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-09-03


Charleston's Calamity.
CHARLESTON, 8. c., Sept. 2.-There
WAS another slight shock at a, IN. to i
day. kilograms sent here last night
could not be delivered on account of
the general con fusion, the people being
camped out.
This main office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company here was badly
injured. The batteries were all de
stroyed and the instruments ruined by
falling bricks and mortar. Au Office
| has been opened about q mile q half
from the o I'D one, and two wires have
been placed in working order. None
OF the oompany's employees were eeri'
ously Injured. AT 5 o'clock this morn
ing all the operators were compelled 10
quit their posts and seek some rect.
The excitement has been so great that
for forty eight hours they had obtained
no sleep.
No paper was issued today and no
business houses are open. Residences
and hotels are still deserted. The peo-
pie are scattered around in vacant lots
all over the city. Efforts are being
made 70 bring about something like
order TO day.
kilograms sent by out of-town friends
to friends and relatives here are piled
up In the telegraph office, 1t being i'm
possible 10 deliver them, owing TO the
evacuation of their houses by the peo-
pie and their scattering throughout the
city.
There were m auy piteous scenes en-
Seted throughout the night. Hardly
any one slept, and the walls and erie,
OF the affrighted children, rs they clune
to their parents beseeching them e
save them, wers hesrtrending. Added
TO these were the grosns of the wounded
and dying, who owing TO the deInorsli
zAtion lay almost wholly uncared for IL
the open lots and streets.
The people are Just beginning to picl
up courage to come out. Efforts arr
: being made 10 clear paths through tn,
/ streets for the passage Of vehicles ant
z | pedeetrians, ard the city once more be
3 gins to show some signs of life. Abou
sever eighths of the houses and publ
, buildings in the city are either dam
= aged or wrecked.
Scarcely building in the city &c
capped injury. The Western Uniol
!. Telegraph offics, which was in q one
Q story bank building, is described IN
safe, aud temporary eli je has beei
openea in q warehouse
|. Dispatches 70 the news and Cour
i ! ierf rom points in South CAROLYN
ranging from extreme northwest 10 u
70 sea coast, report sewers snocks OF eaI u.
quake, with more or less resulting dam
70 age TO property, though without loss G
's life 30 far as known. n Orangeour
W people became 80 much alarmed tina
10 many moved to Columbia
+ AS the details of the calamity In tn
| oitu natharaI "a affaCfa h.
a more and more alarming. 1t is fesre
AZ also that much distress will prevail
~ since by far the larger part of tho
whose property has been wrecked
OF seriously damaged belong to the poor
n classes. People are as cheerful az pc
sible under the terrible Circumstance
and are trying TO restore order out
a. chaos. The aggregate loss is expect
TO reach g 900 900. The wharves, wal
III houses and business facilities Of [
nu city are generally unaffected by t
sx- catastrophe, aud Charleston is as rea'
ch ss ever for the transaction of bushes
The The official total OF deaths is thirt
1ut five. The wounded will number II
at Business Is still suspended, the who
w attention of the people being given
the providing for refugees and making
rma sidences safe. Bricklsyers have a
. y. vanoed their rates to IS day. I
81 City Council will probably meet tom
ma row TO provide measures for relievi
ts the poor. Expressions of gratitude
heard on all sides for the assistance
fered to Charleston, of which suffer-
,ty people will gladly avail themselves.
az. corrected list of deaths will be Civ
ion alter. There were shocks last night
s 30, IL. 80 p N. and a M. All w
A. light. Confidence is gradually retu
u ing, but much apprehension is still 4
~S THE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
r. 81 The people are gradually taking
n count of the details Of the injury wo
'e'e ed by TIT earthquake, and the list
and limited section In the south of the {
ere Ia a sample of the whole. Standing
the post0ffice and looking west an
mcst impossible roadway of de
"A - meets the eye. The building Of
Chamber OF Commerce is badly d
Uloo aged, portion of the south and
'arer walls having been thrown down by
IN violence of the shock and the build
nces of Walker, Evans and BOSWELL
ling also suffered, while the heavy gra
new slabs, which formed the parapet Of
be News and Courier building, lie o
the sidewalk, leaving the slate roof
portion CT the attic floor exposed.
The immense vacant lot on the
reg side OF the street is occupied py
Tow families who lived in the bs,rnt hol
hind and who are camped out en- the sv
head with the few household effects 3
ebts from the flames. frop queen sure
nor horloack ai!ey aim2S' oNoiy hou
. St. shattereu, tne toPs y. ~, INV M ne
IN eat to'i ueins . ~. ".nar ~ cIifnrd
King streets, formerly Silcox's f
,g OF anc s esoansd From Horiback's
IN t. Market street the damage is L
It the great as II m:2ht have been.
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