Morning journal and courier., 1886-09-06

building trembled beneath the soughing sea-
 breeze and it's cracked walls threatened to
 crash everyone within reach. A colored
 father, in admonishing his child against re-
 in evident pain: "My chile, de buildings
 am so wracifed we mus live in de streets and
 squares full many @ month yet"
 The preaching on the public crier's block
 at this place which is known as Auction
 Mart" was in marked contrast with what is
 usually witnessed there. Only the visitors
 and citizens going to and from worship
 were in the streets to-day. It is now quite
 plain that there will be suffering after
 day or so, except in isolated cases. Enough
 money will be received to meet immediate
 wants What most sternly confronts the
 people is the future of the city. If these
 buildings not rebuilt or repaired the city
 can never be what it was and may be ruined.
 Of the twelve thousand houses here, three
 thousand must be rebuilt. Many owners of
 these buildings cannot get the money to re-
 build and unless assistance is given at least
 one thousand vacants lots will stand where
 buildings were on last Tuesday. How to
 get money is the problem.
 Long headed citizens say it is folly to expect loan of Congress or furnish assistance, because there is no authority for 1t, and for this very reason aid has been peatedly refused by Congress to other un- fortunate cities. plan is proposed which oCCi46 tO hICcU S6uordl aDDTOVdl. It IS TOT the city to issue bonds for $5, ,OO0, 900, the present estimated loss by the earthqoake, the bonds to run thirty to fifty years and to draw three per cent. It is believed eastern and northern capitalists would take bonds at par and the city could loan the money to the citizens and take mortgages upon the proper ty. A party of scientists, headed by Profes- sors McGee and Mendenhall, returned to- night at 8 o'clock from an exploring trip north of the city. They visited Ten Mile Hills, Summerville and Lincoln, and don't bring back cheering news. At Summerville they felt nine distinct shocks and say the populace are terrified and are freaks of the quake were found and photo graphed. Most of the three hundred houses at Summerville are wooden buildings, and consequently the damage is confined to their interiors. The foundation under one side of one building fell out so as to topple the structure over in half reclining position. The foundation under both sides of another house parted and permitted the house to drop to the ground. One chimney of many houses was destroyed, while the other re- mained intact A large number of geysers were found, some of them ten feet in diame- ter, and nothing has been long enough to probe their depth. None are spouting now, but all are full of water. Summerville has fared worse than any part of the country hereabouts and will be almost depopulated. Professors Mendenhall and Melee take issue as to the course of the earthquakes. The latter maintains that they are results of slides; while the former believes that they are the result of a readjustment of the earth's crust to the basin of the earth and points to the geyser's as evidence that the l earth is settling and the surface lowering. Professor Mendenhall anticipates another l shock tonight between 10:30 and 2 am, when the tide, which rises here to height | 1f six feet, is at full flood. Professor Men | 1enhall, who studied the cause and effect of l in Japan for several years for | ,he purpose of perfecting an instrument to | .oretell them, created some amusement last l night. Since he has felt the effects of hun 1reds of quakes it was presumed he could | lot be induced to abandon his room at the | lotel. The building is four stories, stucco and prick, of anticipated architecture with high ceilings throughout. He was proceeding up the | tairs to his room when the last shock came. The porter who was showing him up stopped lpon the faintest approach of the sound and when he decided what it was, he dropped a pitcher of water and went leap-frog fashion yer the professor and dashed down stairs in
 way that did the resident Charlestonian 'roud. Prof. Mendenhall did not stand
 pon dignity but also went pellmell down tairs and into the street. Later he called arriage and was driven to the battery and lept in the vehicle until daylight The an ouncement that other shocks will likely l ome has renewed the fears of the people and or at least one more night the open air will e the popular place for rest. Anything 7hich will afford shelter from the atmos- here commands a price. Men hire car iages at s2 an hour and let them as bunks
 CHARLESTON, Sept. 5.-At 11:10 to- night 1oderate shock of earthquake of few sec nds duration was felt, but so far as known id no damage.
 Two colored children died to-day from ex- osure No other deaths were ranorted