New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-08

lxter. As &c passed away the writer sI p.oed
homeward to find the scenes enacted OF foa 20.
street a-S-nd the News and Cou TIE station.
peated at every step OF the way: Inc seaoiV ~.
house. massive brick building acIoSs h oaS
street. had apparently lost its roof WHICH 1a ~
fallen around it. little further on tne III r,i1S
the portico Of Hibernian hall. handsome Duno
ing had
CRASHED TO THE GROUND,
carrying down part of the massive granlIe pr
lars with it. All the way up Meeting streee;
which. in respect of its general direction and
importance, may be called the broaoway -.
Charleston the roadway was filed VIII
ton hotel, which the third shock vas as
felt about ten minutes after the second, ana OF
course caused the greatest alarm in that nelsne
great crowd had collected, as me
edges of the wide spaces embraced Ia ~
could not be reached by even the tallest build
composed OF men. women and children, arose IN
cessant calls and cries and lamentations, while
oyer the motley, half dressed threng -o. was was
which had broken out just beyond the
square Immediately after the first shock and
had now wholly enyeloped several buildings In
the same time large fires were observed under
full Roadway, and the awfulness of the earth
quake may be more fully appreciated, when it Is
said with these tremendous fires blazing uE
all at once around them and threatening the city
with total destruction, the people whom you
met on the streets congregated in
them a thought Vehicles were ranged
in lines on the streets surrounding the
square, while the horses stood as though sniff
ing the ground in anxious inquiry. The coIored
people were loud in their declarations of Alarm
In They were .s singing hymn; ond Offering appeals
1o snv nrong mercy g,r in which appeals
cerely joined. Danger brings all of to the
level OF the lowest. There were no distinctions
OF place or power, pride or caste in the assem-
bages that were gathered together in Charles
tuesday WaS
Gle to look back upon. It is a good one to re-
member for white and black alike There were
ing regard between master and servant, mistre IS
ana maid In the presence of
COMMON Ill,
and of threatened ruin that showed as nothing
else could show how strong is the tie that binds
our white people and our black people
together, and this lesson, we may hope, will
never be forgotten. Arrived at his home, the
writer found the same scenes of distraction and
wreck which marked nearly every home in the
city ALI the houses in the neighborhood haG
suffered seriously. and streets, yards and gar
dens were filled with the fallen chimneys and !
FRAGMENTS OF walls, while the walls that were
left standing were rent asunder in many
cases from top to bottom. and were badly shat
tered IN every instance Women and children
Ing pursuits by the sound of the ruin being
effected above and around them, rushed out
into the streets and huddled together awaiting
the end. whatever it might be. Invalids were
brought on mattresses and deposited on the
roadway: No thought was given to treasures
left behind. Until long after midnight the
streets were filled with fugitives in
sight of their homes. Through the long
hours that followed few were the eyes
even OF childhood that were closed in
Sleep Charleston was full Of those who
watched for the morning, and never in any city
in any land did the first gray shades that mark
the approach of dawn appear SO beautiful and so
welcome to eyes as they appeared to the thou
sanks OF people who hailed them this morning
from the mids of the countless wrecked homes
IN our thrice scOurged, but still patient still
brave, still hopeful. still beautiful city by the
sea