Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-13
GRAPHIC STORY IN REGGIE
A Womau's awful Night Amid
MiAesDrend Misery.
From h.. Nan y ri W., I'd.

From, the Nan J RI W1'li.
A Young lady who arrived IN this city
from Charleston yesterday said to re-
porter: II have neither language nor
nerve to describe the horrors Of the last
dew days. We had no warning. First
came that awful roaring sound, and we
all started and looked at each other
with frightened. questioning faces. Then
tne house swHyed swiftly and heavily
from side to side, the walls crashed
all around us, negroes yelled, and men,
women and children, who poured out by
hundreds into the streets, hair OF them IN
their night clothes, cried out IN frror.
Then the gas went out, he skies we're
darkened, and no one could hnG ms
nearest and dearest. All The white the
earth rolled beneath cur ieet like the
waves OF the ocean. Suddenly ali about
ns the skies were lit 10y fires in all parts
OF the city and news came that the water
works were damaged, and people cried
despairngly, mo water no WalerI /
hardly dare recall wnat happened that
night. When | think OF it, il seems as It
my reason would leave ne; but OF all
loved none are dead and none are wound
ed. thank God!
The streets are full OF tents and turn
where one will rum stares one in the face.
IJdulCo are bOi u III thF c0lNChos " h"N 9"
latient OF my brothers who was brought
to our garden. she felt as If being near
to him might save ner aud be vet lives.
WAS many times at the bed Of a lady who
as in the hospital. The morning OF that
night she had had an operal ion performed
upon her. Tne hospital fell. She was
found in her bed unconscious. lay in the
street all night, and the WAS brought to
40. We did what we could Tor her. L
k,Hnf - 4, Ia
matters now. All convcntionalltiesa aud
ceremonies are swopt aside.
"A fri nd came 20 me- and said: There
is IA pcssICIliIy OF getting away, cone IT
you Gang 50 | yentuIed into the house tor
few things, 6natched up some clothes
and a little money and came. such q
wreck aS there was upstairs, waIdrObes
down, walls cracked, plasterlnQ falling,
and yet V hen Went els where | found L
had much to be thankful lor-but, Oh, my
home! my home!
Il am ~ the clothes wore on Tuesday,
but | seem 10 tel nothing but that am
co d--alwa's cold. " nile the earthquake
wa, going on what seemed to me more
terrible tnau the Wells of the negroes and
Tue CRIES Of the children were the sounds
that he animals made. The dogs broke
jntO hnwe, the horses screamed like
human be ngs and even the fowls made
tn' most uD9Ait1ly DOISeS. Jets OF wafer
came from the earth so not that IL burnt
Our tret with the steam as we ran by, and
Ire was stiGiug with the smell OF SUI
thur. Don't think am unsettled in my
mind. | AIN uuthfuly telling you of
Eirhis and sounds that must haunt me
forever. In the midst of il All could no.
pray, and mlnv O: her people told me the
samc thing. felt that God was power
lys~ or certainly be " ould stay mis- hand.
] nave faced death at sed and IN Illness
but never fen as dld then, II seemed so
hope IS. Tits was utter tuisery.
Even in the midst Il all that tragedy
some anus things happened Old Mr..
Henry A. Middleton Is over % years OF
age ara has hec,m. 30 feeble that his
1amily persuadei aim to give up ais usual
summer AT Newport The whole side OF
his house tell out and the family escaped
10 the garden, where they cBmped al
nj. ht. In The ,aOrning the old gentleman
disappeared tor n whIi" ard return d, IN
the course pi an hour. spiCk and span aud
selt-po Ssessed tie had made his way into
the house, taken his usual morning bath,
de- lie Ihe Sct mat the whole side OF the
house Was gu, dressed himself carefully
in clean CiOthea and, when his family
wa'pled 10 send MIN away, said that he
] found tie earthquake very exciting and
meant ~ rtHY aGd see &c our.
"Auut1rr tlIuE tu8r was very funny
was an old lady vino came rUnn ng out To
us as we were crnucbed among the II =
trees in our Garden. She was IN bed when
The shock cam, and though she brought
her s'ockinas and most OF Der clothes in
her haUd, sue mad taken time to put on
her cap"