The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-05
DYING RUMBLINGS.
Char Ieston'S Latest Shock and
It's Effects.
THE FEARS ENTERTAINED
Every House in the City Has Had Its
Foundation Shatte ed by the
Earthquake-Other Notes
ENTERTAINED
Dying Rumblines.

CHARLESTON, September 4.-Last
nights shock has served TO greatly i'm
pair conf ience. Nearly all people slept
or remained out of doors last night.
The great dread now is the approach
OF the equinoxial gales, which hay e
always been disastrous in Charleston.
In fact, last years disasters were so
great as to attract national attention. 1t
is estimated that every house in the city
has had its foundation shattered by the
earthquake. Walls have been rent.
chimneys and steepleS are off their
square, and there is nothing sound
about the city. Ifan equmoxIal gale of
usual severity should strike the city be-
fore considerable repairs can be made,
nearly every house in the city would be
blown down. The gale comes some
time as LATE as the first week in
September, but last year it come
the last week in August; thus
it will be seen that the city is in
imminent danger at any moment. This
would cause such a crashing of timber,
brick and mortar as was never before
heard of. The temperature has changed,
so as to warn people that the storm is
at band. The effects of the weeks
storm. and pelting rain upon house
less women and children, would be ap-
palling. Six la les are reported to be
diving from the effects of fright. Efforts
made early yesterday TO clear the debris
from the streets were abandon d, and
people are settling back into the melan-
choly of yesterday. Two aldermen OF
eacn ward, with three citizens, has been
appointed to COM emn the unsafe b:ild-
ings. Berkeley, chairman of the com
mittee, has enter upon his duties. He
knows not what TO do, where 10 begin,
or where to stop. He freely declared
would have been preferable, for in that
instance, insurance would have helped
to repair the waste places.
The sensation TO-DAY is the falling of
a shower of pebbles into the lower part
of the city. The first fall was at Z. 80
o'clock this morning and the second
at about IL O'c sock. They were seen to
fall in slanting direction from south
to north. There are morSels OF flint
among them, and all are plainlv
abraided and worn by the action of
water. Some few have sharp fractures
and have evidently beer recently
broken. The fact of the fall is vouched
for by several trustworthy persons.
Thee bulk of the pebbles fell on and
around the NelOs ard Courier Office.
The bar or harbor of Charleston has
not been affected by the earthquake.
SOundiugs taken on Wednesday show
seventeen and athalf feet of water in the
sout channel one hour before high
water, and IN Pumpkin Hill channel
sixteen and half feet OF water. There
is absolutely no deterioration.
The hunrnCTo nj i0 nEfioo hos rooniuo6
a letter from Captain Leo VOegel, of the
steamer CitU of PdLdtkG, briefly describ-
ing the effects of the earthquake at Sea.
He had just left Charleston and was
about twelve miles off the harbor of
Port Royal, in eight and a half fathoms,
when he experienced terrible rumbling
sensation, which lasted a minute and a
haf. There hao been quite heavy sea
from the southeast, but when the rumb-
ling began the wave motion ceased
and the waters remained perfectly
calm, until the noise came to an end,
when the swell was again manifest. The
wind was southeast and light; weather
cloudy; barometer 80 Oh; thermometer
80. The sensation, Captain Voegel says,
resembIed that upon a ship scraping
pebbly bottom. The ships vibrations
were very great.
4nC llSlt 0OuS6 BOdIu IGCElNGu q
port from Charleston to the effect that
the main tower of Harris Island light
IS cracked near the third land
ing from the ground; and that the
floor in the watch room upon
which the lens rests, is loosened. Cape
Roman light and tswer house have
been seen since the earthquake and are
supposed to be all right. The lens st
Bulls Bay light house has been thrown
of its pedestal.
A curious effect of the earthquake has
been discovered at the Signal Office.
The self-Tegistering wind vane shows a
horizontal mark preceding I'D subse-
quent to the shaking denoting a mild,
steady and almost invariable breeze, but
for thirty or forty seconds most violent
shaking. The marks indicate that the
pencil-pOint was moved up and down
the paper many times and with great
rapidlty. An explanation of this phen-
omena is difficult to reach. This is the
only instrument at the Signal Office
which seems to have been affected by
the earthquake.
Some anxiety is felt with regard
TO the poss bic effect OF the earth.
quake at the Bermudas. The Is
lands lie directly IN what is
now supposed 10 have been the path of
the most violent agitation. and their
physical features are such as to war
rant the fear that they may have ex-
perienced severe disaster.
New YORK, September 4.-The New
York Cotton Exchange, to-day. sent
go to the Charleston sufferers. Con-
tributlons still continue TO come in.
In response to an application from
the authorities at Charleston. Iieuten-
ant Abbott, of the CORPS of engineers
now stationed there, has been instructed
to consult with the mayor and render
such assistance in the examination of
buildings and otherwise as may be in
his power. Captain Bixley, of the en-
pIneer COLDS has heen ordered for sim