The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-10-15
MElRrHquAKE AT SEA.
Capt. yosel's Iateresting Account OF his Ex.
perieuce With the Charleston Shake-Charles.

4 Capt. vogsrs Interesting Account Of his Ex.
| perieuce With the Charleston Shake-Charles-
ton Bar.
New York Sun: Capt. Leo Vogel, OF the
steamship Palatka, sent to the hydrograph-
| ic Office in Washington the first report Of
/ the earthquake at sea. The City of Palat-
ka runs between Charleston and Palatka,
Ella. In the summer she usually makes q
tsw trips between this port and Charleston.
She is now lying at the pier OF the
Charleston Steamship company at the foot
I OF Park place. Capt. Vogel said:
ION the morning OF the earthquake day
there was regular tropical shower along
the coast. The rain came down in sheets,
\ and the atmosphere was terribly oppres-
awe. The barometer went down to 29.9-
. low barometer for that region. have
| been studying atmospheric conditions on
the southern coast for good many years,
and knew something was going to happen.
1t looked like strong blow from the south
west My family had come down from the
mountains OF North Caralina and were go.
/ ing to Florida with me. told them the
trip would probably be stormy and disa-
greeable, and persuaded them to remain in
Charleston till the next trip.
I'VE sailed in theevening, and were about
| fifty miles out OF Charleston and eight miles
of shore when we felt the earthquake. The
/ wind was southwest, and o considerable
sea was runing. Suddenly experienced a
sensation as though the vessel was aground
knew this could not be. l looked out
and the sea had become fat. 1t was not
my first experience with earthquakes at
earthquake. My first thought was OF my
family in Charleston. Judging by previous
experiences, knew that il the shock at
| Charleston was as severe as where my
vessel was there would hardly be one
brick lett on another in that city.
expected to hear that Charleston had
| been knocked into smithereens.
"The shock lasted maybe half q minute
and was accompanied by rumbling
sound. After it had passed, the sea gradu-
ally came up again and ritn from the
southeast as before. believe that what
| saved Charleston from utter destruction
was the sea acting as a water cushion and
moderating the shock. We got the shock
| Just five minutes before it reached Charles
ton, and were fifty miles away, indicating
that the shock Travelled at the rate OF
4 about six hundred miles an hour.
I'VE had to lie off the St. Johns bar for
| q considerable time, and everybody on
board who had relatives or friends in
Charleston was in n state Of terrible anx-
ETY.. At jacksonville we got an inkling OF
/ the calamity. began telegraphing to
Charleston, but could get no response. At
last message came: We are all safe on
board the Delaware My family were
| in one OF the buildings that were
| partly wrecked, when the earth.
| quake came. They believed, as almost
everybody there believed, that the next
moment would be their last. My little
children clung together in q group, asked
one another's 8 forgiveness for every unkind-
ness and said their prayers.
81 ia hard for onvhody a this dist
to have any idea OF the awfulness OF the
| reality with which the women and children
in that city were brought face to face, and it
simpossble to sufficiently admire the calm
courage with which they waited for death
after the first impulse OF terror had passed.
Such scenes as [ have described were en-
| acted all over the city. They show that in
a moment OF supreme peril there is some.
thing better and more admirable than the
| nerve OF the stoutest hearted man.
But one OF the most pitiful features OF
tho calamity is the effect upon women and
children OF the prolonged horror kept alive
| by the continuance OF the shocks. 1t was
something that human endurance was not
made to stand, and many who were among
the calmest and brayest at first are brok-
en- down by the continued nervous strain.
They will require months to recover from
the wearing effects OF those weeks"
Capt. Vogel says that, while waiting for
the question to be accurately determined,
he is inclined to the opinion that there is
about afoot IN ore ofwater on theCharleston
bar than there was before the earthquake.
This is the impression he got from sound
| ings made by him in bringing his vessel over
! the bar. 1t is in harmony with the state
| ment telegraphed from Charleston that
the lower part OF the town, toward the
battery, seems to have sunk bodily till it's
| height above the water is several inches
less than before the convulsion.
The Alden Canning and Evaporating
company's factory at Benton Harbor,
Mich, has burned. Loss $4,000. Stock
insured for $4,000
| Violent earthquakes have occurred
throughout Thuringia and other parts Of
Central Germany.
The cattle disease that broke out in w.
j. Etherington's herd, north OF Mandan,
has proved to be the pleuro-pneumonia
| The most stringent measures are being
taken by the Montana Stock Growers as
/ socation to prevent the spread of the dis.
ease. No halfway measure will be taken,
but the herd will all be killed and burned
The range interests are in no danger, as
there is 16O miles OF farming country be.
tween Etheringtons herd and the range
cattle country.
| The action OF Gov. Pattison OF Pa, in
instructing the attorney general for the
state to institute legal proceedings against
| the six greatest coal carrying railroads OF
the United States, to prevent the contem.
plated advance OF 15 cents ton in the
| price OF coal after Oct. 1, will be OF far
reaching Importance, not only to the rival
railroads which have entered into the
| treaty, but to the coal consumers OF the
entire country.
Beach and Hanlanhad an alnica BILE meet
ing ut the Cambridge Music hall. Beach
stated that he had made 100000 out OF
| his boat races, and now intended to retire
| to his Australian farm. the unbenten cham.
pion OF the world.
An act OF cruelty toward the Jews is just
| now in course OF preparation by the Rus
sian government, which has practically
banished and pauperized about sixteen
| thousand OF that prosecuted race belong
ing to the cities OF Rustow and Taganroe.
] Henry Ward Beecher lectures at St.
James hall Oct. IL, on evolution and relig-
| ion. The subject is one OF lively current
( interest. There is a storm brewing over
| the refusal OF the general committee OF the
Congregational union to invite Mr.. Beech
! er to the coming meeting at Norwich. The
! decision was carried by a small majority
| on the ground that Mr. Beecher is not or
/ thodox enough. The chairman Of the com.
| mittee, NJ. White, threatened to resign
/ rather than extend the hand OF fellowship
1 to the Brooklyn preacher. The Rev. Mr..
Hunter OF Hull is endeavoring to have the
| resolution reversed.
Christopher Meyer OF New York, n million
aire ten times over, and president OF the
| Meyer Rubber company, has been sued for
breach of promise by Miss Annette Schsuck
Miss Scheuck is descendant OF an old
knicker- booker family. and is about thirty
years old. Meyer is sixty years old. The
plaintiff places her damages at 500, 900.
John Schmidt, who WASH Jail at Newark
Nd. for the murder Of his wife, committed
suicide. lie left q letter saying he had
bought the poison in Chicago, and came
| East Tor the nurnns. ni lillinn his ,vifa