New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-03

While.
Albrecht. Charles. Robinson, Ainsley A.
Meynardie, b. p. Ahrens, Golde.
POWERS. Peter. Barber. Mrs. O.
Robert, Alexander. Yorck, Annie.
Colored
Brown, James. Cook, John.
Dear, William. Grant William
Miller, Alexander. Niokeiby, Oliver
Rodof. Joseph. Rodod Robert.
sawyer. j. Wilson, Thomas.
Barnweli Marie. Pinckney. Maria.
Davids Angelic Roberts, Eugenie.
Glover, Anna. 6monds. Clarissa.
nsrris Hannah. Small, Hannah.
Middleton Sarah Ward, Rebecca.
Murray, Rosa yelling Grace.
There may be a few moro.
Business is still suspended, the whole attention
of the people being given to providing for
refugees and making dwellings safe. Brick
layers have advanced their rates TO So day.
The City Council will probably meet tomorrow to
provide measures for relieving the poor. Express
ions of gratitude are heard on all sides
for the assistance offered to Charleston of which
the suffering people will gladly avail themselves.
The main Office of the Western Union Telegraph
Company here was badly injured. The batteries
were destroyed and all the instruments ruined
by falling bricks and plaster An office has
been opened about mile and half
from the old one and two wires have
been placed in working order. None of the COM
pauys employees was seriously injured. at
D o'clock this morning all tho operators
were compelled to quit their posts and seek
some rest. The excitement has been great that
for forty-eight hours they had obtained no sleep.
Thepeople cannot be persuaded to enter their homes
even to get food. Their fears were greatly added
to this morning by the shock which occurred at
about l o'clock. kilograms sent by out of town
friends TO friends and relatives hero are
piled up IN the telegraph offices, 1t being
impossible to deliver them, owing to
A 1. Ii. Ixxt tha and
their scattering throughout the city. There were
many piteous scenes enacted throughout the night.
Hardly any ono slept, and the walls and
cries of the atfrighted children as
thev clung to their parents beseeching
them to save them, were heartrending. Added to
these were the groans of the wounded and dying
who, owing to the existing Generalization, lay al
most wholly uncared for in the open lots and
streets. None of the newspapers was published
tins morning
About noon the people began to pluck up cour-
age. Efforts were being made to clear paths
through the streets for the passage
Of vehicles and pedestrians and
the city once more began to show some signs of
life. Small detached relief parties would go to dig
out the dead from the debris succor the wounded
The people are gradually taking account of the in
jury worked by the earthquake and the list OF
damages 10 property is startling limited section
in the south of the city is a sample of the whole
Standing at the post office and looking west an
almost impossible roadway of debris meets
the eye. The building of the Chamber
of Commerce is badly damaged, portion
of the south and east walls having
been thrown down by the violence Of the shock aud
the buildings of Walker, Evans & Bogswell have
also suffered, while the heavy granite slabs which
formed the parapet of The Ners and Courier build
ing lie upon the sidewalk, leaving the slate roof
and portion OF the attic floor exposed. Almost
the entire front of the building occupedby Myers's
cigar store and Smiths stencil establishments torn
ont. leaving the upper floors exposed. The Plenge
Building on Church-st. was badly damaged. Most
of the buildings on the street more or less dam
aged. but the violence of the earthquake Is most
perceptible at the historic intersection OF Broad
and Meeting SITS. The police station Is almost COM
plete 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 1t away,
and leaving only the large huted pill
lars standing. The City Hall apparently escaped
serious damage, but is badly cracked on the east
wall, and the Court House building Is badly dam
aged the walls being cracked in several places and
portions OF the roof aud gables thrown down. The
Fre-Proof Building seems to stand as rock The
made of solid brownstone. have been thrown to the
pavement below. This appears to be the only dam
age done to the building The worst wreck IN
this locality. however, is St. Micbaers Church.
which seems to be doomed to destruction. The
steeple, the repairs which had just been com
plcted seems to be intact. but 1t is nearly out OF
plumb and is in mOmentary danger OF falling. The
massive porch has been wrenched from the body of
the church, and the building has been
cracked in four places One crack IN the
north wall extends from the caves 10
the lower window, two on the west lace
of the church extend the entire height OF the build
ing, and one on the south wall also extends from
the caves down almost to the foundations Ihese
cracks all Immediately under the steepIe, which
1t seems is almost impossible to stand for any
length of time. The hands on the top of the clock
pointed to five minutes of 10. which must have
been the hour OF the first shock on Tuesday night
The buildings between Meeting and King sts are
all or less damaged. the effects of the earth
quake being the same nearly every instance
| Le front wall of DIR. Desaussure's house has been
thrown down, leaving the attic floor exposed; ana
several buildings on the south side OF the
street have been similarly treated. West OF
Kingst- the most serious damage Is to the
Episcopal residence. The gable end has been
thrown down, the wall falling on the roof OF the
spacious porch aud crushing it in The new and
handsome dwelling Of CaptsinF. w. Wagner, and
that of Arthur Barnwell Immediately oppo-
site. do not appear to have been seriously
damaged. The second floor veranda
of Captain Wageners house on the
west side has been crushed in, but beyond this the
building shows no signs of the terrible shaking OF
Tuesday night.
A scene of desolaton the fashionable boulevard
OF Charleston presents. Beginning at Broad-st. one
passes through = block of burned houses Ihe