New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-03
MADE INSANE FROM TERROR.

EFFECTS OF THE EARTHQUAKE AS SEEN IN THE
COUNTRY.
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CHARLESTON. s. g.. Sept. 2.-Out in the country
from Augusta the signs of earthquake were not
abated. Even the negro cabius had lost their
occupants and picanninies on mattresses
spread under big trees were abundant.
The first signs of the convulsiOn that
were on the earth were found at Langley Mills
There remarkable scene was unfolded
Langley Pond was bare waste. Several
hundred acres of pond area were bare
the pools being filled with operatives and
country people catching fish. On the near
shore hotel of pine bushes had been
extemporzed, and heaps of pan fish, corn
dodgers and vinegar sauce made a menu that filled
out Of doors with appetzing odor The Langley town
the pride OF this section, gone and the forest
for half mile below looked as il a cyclone had
torn through them. The dana ge here was $50, O00
1t was about 400 feet across and two
fright and numbers of people have become
insane. A woman drowned herself
through fear at Bath. The sharp terrors
of the cyclone do not compare to the
Great cracks converging nowhere. but apparently
made in caprice. dis6Qured the earth. These sures
were not made by the earth sinking but by it's
assures were usually level Into of these giant
cracks a pole was lowered without reaching
bottom. A hundred feet away from the
pond the solid earth was wrenched into assures
that had no perceptable drift of shape direction.
There had been no eruption and no ex-
traneous under sand was found in the cracks.
1t was simply as if some tremendous
power had torn the earth apart, cutting the cracks
clean and definite. The largest crack was perhaps
two feet across and bottomless as far as appear
ances could be believed.
On the upper left hand side of the pond
a tragedy had occurred. The first break
of the evee that encircled the body of
water took place there. The water rushed
across the railroad track carrying the ties and rails
into smaller pond just beyond just as the night
express came laundering along The night was
very dark and a short curve hid even
the glistening waters The engine followed the dis
located track and plunged into the smaller pond.
The fireman jumped and was thrown with tremen-
dous force into the water and instantly drowned.
The engineer stuck to his post, and though
the engine was completely submerged man
aged to escape with two broken legs
None of the passengers we're hurt.
Almost at the same moment and precisely the
same hour the up-bound express plunged INTO a
crevasse mile below the pond and the fireman
was killed. the engineer and passengers escaping
The Of , wafs b Ms lane mile below
and swept it away Like a feather. 1t viii require
100000 to repair the damage done these dams
Your correspondent discovered small boat across
the bed of the pond which was secured by native
who stripped and swan. In this we were trans
ferred and found an engine waiting
section IS suggested by the, following mel
dent: The Knights of Labor at the
mills met last night in a small one-story building.
slight shock was felt while they were in session.