Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-03

TO property is startling. A section in
the south part ,,of the city is q sample Of
the whole. Standing at the pOstofice and
looking west, an almost impossible road
way Of debris meets the eye. The build
ing of the Chamber of Commerce is badly
damaged, portion of the south and east
walls having been thrown down. and the
buildings Of Walker, Evans & BOSWELL
have also suffered, while the heavy-granite
slabs which formed the parapet of the
NelrS and Courier building, lie upon the
I sidewalk, leaving the slate roof and por-
ton of the attic floor exposed. Almost
the entire front of the building
occupied by Myers cigar store and Smith's
stencil establishment is torn out, leaving the
upper floors exposed. The Pleng building,
at the corner of Church street, was badly
damaged. Most of the buildings on the
street are more or less damaged, but the
violence Of the earthquake is more percep-
tible at
THE HISTORIC INTERSECTION
Of Broad and Meeting streets. The police
station is almost complete wreck. The
/ upper edge of the wall has been torn and
the north wall has fallen leaving only the
large futed pillars standing. The city
I hall apparently escaped serious damage,
/ but is badly cracked on the east
wall, and the Court House building is
badly damaged, the walls being cracked
in sev, raj places and partitions Of the ROOT
and gables being thrown down. The
tire-prOOf building seems to stand rs a
rock.
The worst wreck in the locality, how
ever, is st. MichaePS Church, which seems
to be doomed to destruction. The steeple,
the repairs on which had just been com
pleted, seems to be intact, but it is
OUT OF PLUMB
and is in momentary danger of falling.
The massive porch has been wrenched
from the body Ofthe church, and the build
ing has been cracked in four places. One
crack in the north wall extends from the
caves to the lower window. Two cracks
on the west side OF the church extend the
entire heighth of the building, and one on
the south wall also extends from the caves
down almost to the foundation. These
cracks are all immediately under the
steeple, which, it seems impossible, will
stand for any length OF time. The hands
ON the top OF the clock pointed 10 five min
utcS of ten, which must have been the hour
of the first shock Tuesday night. The
buildings between Meeting and King streets
are all more or less damaged, the effects OF
the earthquake being the same in
nearly every instance. The front
wall of DR.. DeSauSSiure'S residence has
been thrown down, leaving the attic floor
exposed. and several buildings on the south
side OF the street have been similarly treat
ed. West of King street the most serious
damage is to the Episcopal residence. The
gable end has been thrown down, the wall
falling on the roof of the porch and
crushing it in. The new and handsome
residence of Capt. Wagner and that Of Mr..
Arthur Barnwell opposite do not appear to
have been seriously damaged.
What a scene of deSOlatioh
THE FASHIONABLE BOULEVARD OF
CHARLESTON
presents. Commencing at Broad street one
passes through block Of burned
houses. The first fire starting ut
No. llS, the third building from the
corner Of Broad street on the
east side, consumed the entire row of build
ings Us far north rs Tully's old stand, next
the Quaker grave yard. The few houses
left on that side are more or less shattered.
The few houses on the west side, north
of Broad street, had not escaped
the general fate, although the damage
is not rs great as IN other
portions. The immense vacant lot on the
west side OF the street is occupied by the
families who lived in the burnt houses and
who are camped ont on the sward with the
few household effects saved from the
flames. From Queen street to Horback :
allev, almost every house is shattered, the
tops of the wall near the roof being thrown
down. The large building at the corner
of Clifford and King streets, formerly
Silex's furniture store, has 10 outward ap-
pearanceS,
MIRACULOUSLY ESCAPED.
From Horback'S alley 10 Market street
the damage is not rs great as it might have
been. RObb's lot, on the East Side, Is Oc-
-cupied bv several hundred people camping
out The Victoria Hotel and the Acade-
nv of NHsic seem to have escaped. The
Waverly House is externally unlnJureu
The large red brick boarding house, how
ever, Immediately opposite, has suffered
badly, the top of the wall under the caves
having been stripped of one side. The
handsome block of stores from Beautaln to
Wentworth street has been Singularly pre-
served very few OF the French plate glass
fronts being broken. The Masonic tenn
ples seems to have escaped and the dam
ace 10 the buildings between this point
taStaine seems not to be great.
In Wentworth street the handsome hall
of the German Artillery has been badly
damaged. Coming down Meeting street
from Calhoun street, the signs Ofthe earth
quake are very plain. The building OF the
charleston water works, on George street,
IS uniniured, and so strange to say. II the
immense
THREE MILLION GALLON RESERVOIR
on the premises. The shock on Monday
night fractured the pipe through which
water WAS forced into the stand pipe and
Lurinp the progress of the fires the pressure
| WAS applied directly 10 the main. This
nine was, however, replaced and the stanu
nine. which was uninjured, was filled with
water. All over the city the INJURY Is oi
the same character.
| A special report from Mt. Pleasant, OPP
posite Charleston, says that SINK near 'he
German Church, which on Tuesday was
perfectly dry sand, is now full OF fresh
water. Near Shell street there is caolh
occupied by cOlored man that is com
pletely surrounded by yawnlng chaSins
extending through the earths surface tor
ten feet and over. All around this there
are sinks of fresh water ana masses oil muu
with queer looking soft substances IN II
that had never seen before. 1t Is contend
ed by many that the mud and other SUD
stances found around the village are vol
canic matter. Just after the first great
shock on Tuesday night there
was decided and dlstlnct
smell of escaping sulphuric acid gas over
the entire village. Thesmell lasted through
out the whole night and was distinct IN
those localities where the shOckswere most
numerous. Not very far from
Charleston on the road to Summertime,
EXTENSIVE MOUNDS OF EARTH