The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-09


at Meeting street, which, in respect
Of Its general direction and importance
may be called the Broadway, the road
way was piled with debris. At Marion
Square q great crowd had collected.
From this crowd, composed Of men
women and children Of both races, aroee
incesssnt calls and cries and laments-
tons, while over the motley half dressed
thronR was shed the nvid light Of the
beyond the square Immediately after the
Arst shock, and had now wholly
envelcped several buildings In flames.
In three other quarters OF the town at
the same time similar large fires were
observed under full Roadway, and the
awful significance Of the earthquake
may be appreciated, perhaps, when IL is
said that with these Tremendous fires
blazing up all around and threatening
the city with total destruction, the people
evidently did not give them thought.
The crowds poured in from every direc-
ton to the square just described as
though life depended on passing within
its grassy bounds.
It was curious spectacle to look back
upon, it is good one to remember, for
white and black alike. There were in
stances Of unselfsh devotion, Of kind
and loving regard between servant, mis-
tress and maid, in the presence OF q COM
mon i'll and threatened ruin that showed,
as nothing else could show, how strong IL
the tie that binds our white people
and our black people together. Arrived
at his home, the writer found the same
scenes Of destruction and wreck which
marked nearly every home in the city,
InVAlids were brought out on mattresses
and deposited on the roadway. Until
long after midnight the streets were filed
with fugitives In sight OF their homes.
CHARLESTON, September, 1.-Repea-
ted shocks OF mild character have been
heard and felt within the last hour
Owing to the Generalization and c0ndi-
ton OF everything here IL Is impossible tC
give correct facts further than this. The
number Of casualties has not yet beer
ascertAined, probably from thirty te
forty killed and over 100 wounded.
The loss TO property will probably
reach e8, 900, 600 or SIC, zoo, 600. Three
fOurths OF the builniuGs in the city viii
have to be rebuilt. There was very little
shipping in port and none Of it was in
jured.
IL go p. m.-Another shock has Just
occurred, rather more severe than any
since last night. knocking down several
houses.
SUMMERVILLE, g. O., Sep. Mid
night-Ten more shocks were felt here
Tonight, some quite severe.
CHARLESTON, s. G, Sept. 2-The fol
lowing is approximately a correct list OF
the Casualties by the earthquake as far q:
GscertaiDed up to 2 O'Clock this morning
Miss Williams, at the corner of Went
worth and Meeting streets, jumped from g
window and injured her spine.
Mrs E Galiot, colOred. badly hurt by
falling brick.
Mrs Robert Martin, badly hurt.
NJ j Lynch was struck by a stone and IL
dying
Charles Rivers. colored, had a leg
b:oken.
Mrs Chas r vers, seriously wounded.
Moses Brown, colored, wounded dan
gerously.
DR.. Alexander ran out of house and
was crushed to death by q falling chin.
heY.
Samuel Hammond hal both legs broken
and was wounded fatally.
Isabella Howard, wounded seriously.
Mrs Heidi, seriously wounded.
Mrs AunIe TOrck was dangerously in
jured by q falling house.
Miss Jessen injured internally.
Mamie Palmer, injured internally.
Ainsly Robertson, killed by falling pi-
eZa.
LavIna Roberts, colored, killed.
j q E Richardson, seriously injured by
a falling house.
Edmund Leedy of Richmond, Virgin1s,
injured in the hack and head by falling
wall.
Olive Nickel, colored, killed.
Isaac jenkins, painfully hurt.
w Pratt, painfully hurt.
81 A DessanssIure, painfully hurt.
Allen Mitchell, painfully hurt.
Mrs Bsysrd, painfully hurt.
j Oldeubuttel, painfully hurt.
Susan Davis, painfully hurt.
Mary Ann Drayton, colored, painfully
hurt.
Susan Middleton and several unknown
colored women were killed.
Willie ScrIllee, wounded badly.
James Dorm, badly wounded.
Three News and Courier compositors
were wounded by bricks while fleeing
from the composing room.
Martin French was injured In the head
and hips by falling bricks.
4 son of Lieutenant Heidi, OF the police
leaped from third.story window OF 9
house, and was instantly killed.
Annie Harris, colored, killed while
lying in bed.
Thos. Albrecht, killed by falling brick
Lizzie Bradley, colored, seriously hug
by q falling pisZa.
Sarah Fowler, colored, wounded by fall
ing timbers, also Annie Wilkins.
David Palmer, colored, had his righI
leg fractured.
There are many minor casualties In
add ton to the damages previously re-
ported.
The South Carolina railroad offices or
John street are cracked. but still stand
VIM. Bird s. Co.'s wholesale paint store
WAS shaken down.
w. E. Holmes s. Co., next door, are In 9
similar condition.
Part of the walls of a bsgging factory
were destroyed.
The principal streets are Uttered with
bricks and rubbish. The city hall es-
capped damage, but the steeples OF st
Michael's and ST Phillips churches will
have to come down. The massive portico
of st. Michael's was wrenched from the
body of the church and cracks in the main
building extend to the foundation. All OF
the portlco of Bishop Northrop's residence
was swept away, while the academy OF
music appears to be uninJured. The
Charleston hotel Ioses its ceiling and part
of the coping; the German artillery hall is
somewhat injured the water works build
Ing and reservoir are GnIDjured; several
buildings on Haynes street are Quilted -.
The injury tn ST. Phillips church, pIeYi-
ously mentioned, is almost indescribable.
Among the residences seriously DAM
aged are those Of Capt. Dawson, o: the
News and Courier; Gen. SeiglIng. the
late 81. Julien ROvenel, L. G. Trenholm,
c O. Willie, George Gibbop, ] L. TobiaS.
81. Bulwinkle, Pressles Smith and Alder
man Murray.
On Sullivan's Island the shock was Sc
we're. but comparatively little injury was
done and no lives were lost. Many of the
summer visitors came up to the city this
morning.
On James Island the earth 10 cracked 10
many places and from the assures issued
iarge bodies of cold water mixed with
sand and blue mud. Clocks everywhere
stopped about 8 40 p. IN.
At Mount Pleasant there was general
shaking up, but no loss OF lite. There
are many assures and cavities, from which
fresh water and mud have came, and fine
mud or SAND has also come 70 the surface
in Charleston. II is contended here that
there IVES q twist, or turn, motion of the
earthquake, and not simply an undu
lstinG motion, as articles of furniture have
been found which are turned partly
around, in addition 20 the visible effects
of . simple wave motion.
New YORK, Sept. 2.-The Western
Union officials state that no messages sent
to Charleston last night could be delivered
on account Of the general confusion The