St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-03
CHARLESTON'S SORROW
Thirty-Five Persons Killed and Over
Hundred Injured by the Great
Earthquake.
-Eighths of the Buildings of the
City Wrecked or Damaged by
the Shock.
The Loss, as Estimated, Foots Up to
the Appalling Figure of Thirty
Million Dollars.
A Railway Accident Caused by tn,
Earthquake--Aid Being Sent
the Sufferers.
The Charleston Horror.


CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept. 2.-The fol-
lowing is the official list of those who were
killed by the earthquake, or have since
died Of their injuries:
White-Peter Powers, Mrs. G. Barber,
Ainsley III. Robson, Robert Alexander.
Charles Albrecht B. P. Maynardie, Patrick
Lynch, Annie Gorch, Mrs Rachel Ahrens,
Goldie Ahrens.1 II Kittie Berneveld, Col
ored-Thomas Wilson, William Dear,
Anna Glover, q. Sawyer, Will
lam Grant, Alexander Miller, Joseph Rodof,
Hannah Smals. Mary Barnwell, Maria Pick
ney, James Brown, Angelic Davids, Eugenie
Roberts, Robert Rodon, Grace Fleming, Rosa
Murray, Oliver Nickellsly, John Cook Clar-
issa Simonds, Hannah Harris, Sarah Middle
ton, Rebecca Ward, Zera B. Sawyer and John
Cook.
THE WOUNDED
Will probably number 100. Business is
still suspended, the whole attention of the
people being given to providing for refu-
gees and making residences safe. Brick
layers have advanced their rates to Sc a
day. The city council will probably meet
tomorrow to provide measures for relleV-
ing the poor. Expressions of gratitude are
heard on all sides for the assistance offered
to Charleston, of which suffering people
will gladly avail themselves, There were
shocks last night at $50, 11:50 p. III. and 1
a. M. All were light. Confidence is
gradually returning, but much apprehen-
sion is still left. For two long days and
nights of horror women and children have
been camping out in the parks and squares.
The earthquake has swept over the city
like billOw of destruction and Charleston
is laid down in the dust. 1t is impossible
to give any correct estimate of the loss OF life
nd for no t,un do MI
The people have done nothing but huddle
on the squares. Small details of relief
parties are going on to dig out the dead
FROM the debris or SuccOr the wounded.
The first systematized effort to get the facts
is now making. About seven eighths of
the houses and the public buildings in the
city are either damaged or wrecked. Even
the historic St. MlchaeFs and st. Phillips
churches are SO badly wrecked that it is
feared they will have to be taken down.
The waves from 9:55 o'clock Tuesday night
have been coming about once every five or
six hours. There has been none for
twelve hours, and strong hopes are enter
tanned that the horror is about over The
main Office of the Western Union Telegraph
company in Charleston was badly injured,
The
and the instruments ruined by falling bricks
and plaster. An Office has been opened
about mile and half from the old one
and two wires have been placed in working
order. None of their employees were
seriously injured. At o'clock this morn
ing all their operators were compelled to
quit their posts and seek some rest. The
excitement had been so great that for forty
eight hours they have obtained no sleep.
The Western Union company desires to
announce through the Associated Press that
it will gladly forward to Charleston any
contributions of money for the sufferers
and any messages pertaining thereto free
of charge.
SHOCKS ELSEWHERE.
Specials to the News and Courier from
points in South Carolina, ranging from the
extreme northwest to the seacOast, report
severe shocks with more or less resulting
damage to property, though without loss of
life so far as known. In Orangeburg peo-
pie became so much alarmed that many
moved to Columbia. AS the details of the
calamity in this city are gathered its effects
become more and more alarming. 1t is
feared, also, that much distress will pre-
vail, as by far the larger part Of those
whose property has been wrecked or
seriously damaged belongs to the poorer
classes of people. People are as cheerful
as possible under the terrible circumstances
and are trying to restore order out of chaos.
The aggregated loss is expected to reach
$50, 000,0
A TERRIBLE NIGHT.
Last night the old scenes of fright and
fear were enacted in the public squares and
parks. Frail women, some of them almost
dead. and infants in arms, were driven to
the necessity of spending the night on the
square with only such covering as could be
improvised by the use Of blankets, shawls,
sheets. etc. In many of the squares,
notably at Washington park, the fright and
annoyance to these people were increased
by the eXcruciating religious performances
of the colOred people who crowded the
parks. The night wore on slowly and pain
fully. At 1880 p. m. heavy earth
quake passed through the city. Its
coming was presaged by quite a
number of explosions, dim and
distant, which commenced to be heard fully
five minutes before the vibration was felt.
The wave was somewhat more pronounced
than the two which had preceded, the one
at 1925 m. and the other at SIS p. H.,
and as it passed by to the northeast there
followed sounds which indicated falling
walls or buildings. This was the last Vi
bration last night. At daybreak there was
a movement. Many of the people gathered
up their tents and departed for their shat
tered homes. The people living in st. An
drews parish say that water and mud
boiled up to a height of from five to ten
feet out of assures in the ground in that
locality.
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