The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-09

night before were still fresh in
the minds of affriRhted ana helpless wo-
men and children poWerless TO help them
SEW es. Many cOlored people were re-
spected and deprecated the terrible scenes
enacted. The negroes who took part are
of the lowest GLASSES. They had the as
surance OF large numbers and refused to
desist or conduct the exercises in moders
ton. Thursday night the situation prom
Ised TO be worse. Half Q hundred negroes,
men and women, began TO play ball and
took complete possession OF the paIk.
Mayor Huger had the ball playing
stopped and forbid the usual religious or
gies and the night passed In peace and
quiet.
An attempt at repairing caused terri
BILE rise in the price OF labor. Masons are
readily getting So per day and other trades
In outrageous proportion The city coun-
Gil has appointed q committee to inspect
ali buildings and order pulled down any
that are dangerous. Among the buildings
condemned must surely be st. Michael's.
Diagonally across from StMichaels is the
court house, an antique and handsome
structure. which has hardly lost brick
and yet IL ID shattered in every wall. Char
lesion has a large Catholic population and
alter the first shock they Immediately
as he felt the shock he rushed tor the yard
and in the streets were gathered thousands
of Catholics, who wanted to enter the
church. He closed and locked the iron gate
keeping the crowd from entering. When
he opened the church so that the multi
tude might look upon the tabernacle where
rests the Holy Ghost, instantly all tell
on their knees and began praying. Dom
ming his cossaek he went among his peo-
pie and gave aDsolution to each, and
passing among them hearing as many in
dividual confessions as possible. Nearly
all the priests of the city did the same.
There has been many births since the first
shock. No less than ten are already re-
ported. One lady was taken to Washing
ton square in the agonies of motherhood
and soon thereafter was the mother OF
smiling twins. She is resting easily. Al.
though hundreds of people witnessed it,
these are earthquake times and social del
icacies are not over strictly observed, yet
the utmost respect ana Difference is shown
in every instance.
Although it is impossible TO make any
approximately money estimate of the
properly destroyed, it becomes palmer
every day that the blow is one from which
the city will not recover in many years.
Although but few buildings were leveled
to the ground, 1t is not eXtravagant to say
that fully two-thirds of all there are here
will have to be either torn down and en-
tireiY rebuilt or SO nearly SO that the diff.
ference in cost will be but trifling. The
very heart of the city seems to be utterly
shattered and wrecked, and it looks as
though it had been literally riddled and
honeycombed by bombshells from hun
dred batteries. Lofty church spires are
hanging IN the air by mere shreds
of masonry, great massive portIcos
with tottering pillars are broken and all
sskew and trembling beneath the burdens
of every jar. Whole blocks stand with the
fronts shaved clearly down and lay
sprAwling IN unsightly heaps of bricks
and mortar in the street below. Furnished
rooms which SO recently were shelter and
home are now all bare to the light OF day.
Bent and broken palings and awning rods
and lamp posts, twisted in all conceivable
shapes and standing at all possible angles,
is all that is left of what a week ago was
one of the most picturesque Of southern
cities. Railroad trains are now making
regular trips.
a special from Charleston to the Tim
saws; In addition to the material losses
there are sentimental losses which are be-
You'd all estimStes. A Charlestonian sets
great store by the house IN which he was
born and with all its associations. An
Episcopal lady, whose husband is certain
iy ruined by the catastrophe SAID, 81 could
stand il all if st. MIchael's had been
spared. My Grandparents were both bsp
tised and married there and In its walls 1,
too, was married" This feeling for old
st. Michael's is quite general, even among
those who are not Episcopalians. The
building was a part of family traditions
of the State, and as such was claimed by
everybody. The great dread now is the
approach of the equinox. In three weeks
the equator will balance with the sun and
we will be in the midst of q great storm
era. Equinoctial gales have always been
disastrous in Charleston, and IN fact last
years disaster was SO great as to attract
national attention. It is estimated that
every house in the city had its foudda-
ton shaken by the earthquake. Walls
have been rent, and chimneys and steeples
are off their square, and there is nothing
plumb about the city.
If an co uinoctal gale OF unusul severity
strikes the city before considerable repairs
are made nearly every house in the city
will be blown down. A gale comes some.
times as late as the first week in October,
but last year it came in the last week of
August. 1t will thus be seen that the city
is IN imminent danger at any moment.
This would cause such crashing OF tim
Der, brick and mortar as was never heard
of. The temperature has changed SO as to
warn the people that storm is at hand
The effect weeks storm and peltiDg
rains upon houselees women and children
would be appalling Six ladies are re-
ported dying in tents from fright. An
effort was made early in the day to clear
away the decris but has been abandoned
and the people are settling back into the
melancholy of yesterday.
FAILING PEBBLES.
CHARLEsToN. Sept. 4.-The earthquake
shock last night caused great alarm on ac-
count Of the shattered condition OF the
nerves of the people. Those persons who
had Ventured back under their roofs now
hurried into the streets which presented
for a few minutes as tragicAl an appear
ance as on Tuesday night. But little &C
tusl harm was done by the shock. Two
untenanted houses are reported 70 have
fallen together with part Of the coping
of the Charleston hotel The
vibrations during the shock
and howlIng of the wind was sufficiently
alarming. Gradually people had come to
the conviction that the shocks were At
an end, and the disappointment was agon-
iZing. The sensation of to-day is the
falling Of shower OF pebbles IN the
lower part OF the city. The first fall was
at 2 80 this morning, and the second
about IL O'Clock. They appeared to fall in
a slanting direction, from south to north.
There are morsels of flint among them,
and all are plainly atEAidtd,
and worn by the action of the water. Some
few have sharp fractures and evidently
have been recently broken. The fact of
the fall is vOuched tor by several trust
fell in and around the News and Courier
Office.
a Terrible CaIau NIFTY.