The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-09-09

course Of men, women ard children
assembled in: the centre of the central
flower bed. After they had collected
there distinct shock was felt, which
came near creating scene of the widest
confusion, but fortunately cool heads
checked the outbursts of the people and
prevented panic that would necessarily
have followed if the people had been
allowed to give vent to feelings.
The Experiences OF Another Member OF
the Staff.
The wild tremors of the earth which
startled the people of Charleston early
Friday morning were but the precursors
of the more terrible visitation which fell
upon the city last night.
About ten minutes past 10 o'clock,
without a moments Warning, subterra.
mean roar was heard, buildings shook
from garret to cellar, then the fearful
noises growing louder and louder, build
ings swayed to and fro like trees in
storm, and then came the crash of tum-
bling houses, and, simultaneously ming
ling with those notes of horror, came the
shrieks ard wailings Of frightened women
and children.
Those who rushed into the streets were
enveloped in clouds of mortar and brick
dust, and wherever the eye fell there were
the fragments of building, torn and
twisted, telegraph wires and general hav.
oc. Men, women and children, many in
/ their night apparel, rushed frantically
from place to place seeking spot where
| they might be safe from danger.
The two FIRST violent shocks, which
| followed. each other so closely that they
seem as one, were, of about thirty seconds
duration. They were succeeded, after an
| interval of about two minutes, by another
shock, which, though not as severe as the
first, was of sufficient violence to cause
| apprehensiuns that the work of destruc-
tion was not yet done.
Fortunately, however, no damage
resulted from this shock, nor yet from the
three very slight ones which followed at
intervals varying from fifteen to twenty
minutes.
In many of the streets the gaslights
had been extinguished by the convulsion,
and the darkness contributed greatly to
increase the fears and the general feeling
of uneasiness among the crowds of peo.
pie who left their habitations to seek
safety in the open. In many places
prayer meetings were improvised, and at
many a street corner could be seen kneel-
ing groups of all ages and conditions,
supplicating the Almighty to grant them
mercy and protection in the hour of
| danger.
A strange scene presented itself at the
City Hall Park. Here hundreds of peo.
| Pile had sought refuge, as no tall build
ings were near, the crumblipg walls of
which might endanger life or limb. Here
and there mattresses were laid on the
| grass on which slumbered infants uncon-
scious Of the terrible scenes enacted
around them. In one-place lay ap old
lady very.ill from typhoid fever, whose
condition had been seriously aggravated
by the terrors of the night. go
All'through the weary hours; till day
dawned, the streets and parks we're filed
with frightened humanity, who dared not
return to their: homes, fearing that's new
convulsion might work even'g greater ruin
than the first. s-ei al,'lf' p 20;
N Casualties. - 81
Mrs. Williams jumped from the second
story of her residence at the corner of
| Wentworth and Meeting streets, and
Injured her spine badly. She is the
daughter of Mrs. M. J. Williams.
Mrs. e. Galliot, colored, was struck by
brick, opposite the Pavilion Hotel, and
her head badly injured. Her daughter
was also badly hurt in the. same way
Mrs. Robert Martin, wife of the shoe
merchant in Market street, near King,
was badly hurt.
Mr.. M. j. Lynch was desperately hurt
in front of his sons store in Meeting
street. "A stone of great weight feel upon
him and broke one of his legs, if not
both. He was taken to place of safety
in what was feared to be dying. condi-
ton. Father Duffy was with him.
DR.. ChazeF Informed o Reporter: that
he had been called away to attend to two
persons who had been injured at the
house Of Mrs. Lazarus, at 81 Hazel street.
No particulars could be had.
A colored. woman, in an unconscious
condition, was found in front of the
Market in Meeting street. A policeman
said that he bad seen two dead bodies in
King street, North of Broad street. -
DR.. Buist informed a Reporter that
there were in the City Park at the corner
of Wentworth and Meeting streets no
less than 12 wounded persons who had
already received his professional atten.
tion. Among them was a young girl
whose leg was broken. :.
A colored man named Charles Rivers,
living at No. 8 King street, was struck by
falling wall, near the corner of King
street and the Battery, and his left leg
was broken belowthe knee. His wife,
Sarah Rivers, was also badly wounded at
the same time.
Moses Brown, colored, was badly
wounded, on King street, by falling
bricks.
One of The sons of Mrs. j. N. Robson,
living on Coming street, near Cannon, is
reported. to have been badly hurt by the
falling of the piazza.
A very sad case was that OF Mr.. R.
Alexander, young chemist, who was
crushed to death at boarding. house on
Meeting street. He had just bought
small steam pleasure yacht, and took bis
6rst and last trip in it last evening.
Mr.. Hammond, brother, of Mr.. Isaac
Hammond, is thought to be fatally
wounded, both his hips and legs being
broken, and also his left arm. He said
to Mr. Poulnot that he did not know
whether he jumped from the three-story
window on Broad street or was thrown
out. He crawled from the sidewalk. to
the middle of the road, and on being re.
moved uttered the most heartrending
shrieks.
A colored woman in Beaufain street
killed.
Isabella Howard, Ravenel court, Sc.
riously injured.
Mr.. Heidi, Chalmers street, seriously
injured.
It is reported that one of the factory
girls living at the boarding house at the
corner of America and Blake streets,
was killed.
A colored woman living in the yard of
Capt. Smalls, in Bull street, was Instant
ly killed, and a colored woman vas
Killed, also, in Pitt street.
The house of Mrs. Annie Torck, on
| Cooousion strent fell in and Wolnded her