The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-09-10
From the Columbia Register.
WORK OF THE EARTHQUAKE
CHARLESTON IN RUINS.

sNAAe'' 'easn4oaAe uoTe iast hiSut ~ S.OS
o'clock. The principal business portion Of
the city was destroyed and hundreds o
persons were rendered homeless. Meu
were frantic aud women were beseechine
mercy from the Almighty. The main sta.
tion house, city hall, Hibernian hall and
many other we'll known public buildings
including St: Michael's Church, were ire
parably damaged. Many people were seri
ous;yllif not fatally injured.
Bro.d street presented spectacle OF tht
utmost horror, Even women, armed with
hatchats, fought valiautly to rescue impris
oned unfortunates.
Meeting street, from Broad to Hascl, is
a wreck and is lined with uufortunates.
To add to the horror of the scene, many
fires broke out Il nd were Intellectually fought
by the department. The night was hide.
GUS with the groaus Of the dying, the
screams of tho wounded, and the prayers
of the uninjurcd.
At precisely S.25 this morning aaother
wave swept over the city, coming, as did
the other, from the Southeast, and going in
a Northwesterly direction. by that time
many of the people who had been out in
tho public parks and open places all night
had vcnturcd into their houses to get cloth
ing and something to eat. The approach
of tho shock was heraldcd by the usua
-umbling sound, resembling distant thuu
der; then it gradually approached, the
earth trembled and heavcd, and in three
seconds it had passed, the sound dying out
in the distance. This is the only wave fell
since 2.30 q. m.
The police station and many other public
buildings and fully twothirds of the resi-
dences in the city are uninhabtable, being
wrecked, either totally or partially.
At the time of the first shock fire. Tres bfuk,
out in five different places in the city
About twenty houses were destroyed BY
fire.
All the stores arc closed, and q scarcit,
Of 2raysioqsS is fsaEedswcnnSt n fir from e. want
to :each the stores to cell them.
The South Carolina railroad track abov,
and below Summerville is twisted in places
like snake.
St. Michael's church is shattered and The
stceple will come down, likewise the stecplt
Of ST. Philips. The steeplc of the U nj
tartan church has fallen. The porticos OF
Ilibcrian hall and the Main Station house
are demolished. There is much injury tc
houses on Fast and South Battery The
portico Of the Ravcucl mansion is down.
The shock was severe at Summeryille
and Mt Pleasant and Sullivan's Island, bu,
no loss of life is reported there.
Fissures in the earth arc noticed, from
.:";ah fino sand, apparently from a great
depth, eAuaco.
Raveners, September 1.-The railroad
is under water in some places between here
and Charleston, twenty five miles north oi
here, and tho earth has cavcd in in severa
places.
The losses by fire and earthquake canno
be accurately estimated, but can be PLACED
safely at S5,OOO,OOO.
| THROUGHOUT TIE STATE.
Abbcvilc, Sept. Last night at tel
minutes before 10 o'clock this village OK
perienced the most severe earthquake tina
was ever felt in this section of the country
The shock lasted for long time and il
creased in severity until the end.
At that hour religious exercises were b'
inc conducted in the Methodist churcl
which was filled with dcvout worshippcr
Presiding Elder Smart had just delivere
an eloquent and sou.-stirring sermon fro
tho text " Prepare to meet thy God whe
the first quivcr of the shock was felt.
The loose bricks from the tops of Il
chimncys fell, and wo learn that the pls
tcring fell from the rooms in many house
but no house, so far as VIC have learne
has been seriously injured.
Lancaster, Sept. 1.-Thc first shock
the earthquake was felt at 1905 p.
: Tuesday night, and lasted about two mi
utcs 1t was very severe. Houses rock
and articles were shaken from shelves. L
people were greatly frightened and rush
into the streets. There was wailing a
prayers by the negroes on all sides,
thirteen negroes in the jai! pleading to {
out pitifully. There was no damage
property in tho town except the tops
" chimneys