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' ' ' ' ' I " ' ' T T " IH' ' & . to i-"- j,-;- ' V ,1 . v " i .. .1. i i i , , M i j b , , 1 " " ' '' ' 11 " ' " '"' '" '" - ' i- i i -. . . mi -ii i ., 1 . ., . . i, .- ,'.K-- J-&iiJJ-'.m ' ' ' F " ' ' ' "" " ' "' 'I "" - -"" .ii.-i.. .1 , ., ., 1 .- -. - - - . , . i 77t -,-- - .m, niKKKVKR fCMTARf.IMIIKO tHii. FAYETTE VILLE N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1SSG, VKW SEMES: T0L. L 50. 41, iDbscncr;anb (Scucttc. TtTfiLLTSS OF THE STTRF. IT XYSOTSB, Proprietor. 4 Orw tret, next ( 11 FAYKTTlCVII.I.K, IV. C. ThU'KSDAY,.. .SEPTEMBER 9, 1886 TKKMS OF SVBSCRIPTTOX.: - lh), vr (in advnm-) ...$2 00 t iinntlw.(" dTMiwI.-..i.-...-i-i..v....:-.-. i 00 ' j,i lutiiie enterra witliottt mvuihi1, mid iro ' r Jut utter exiMmtidu f tint puid for. h'.K ' TKS OF A D VElt TISl.VG jramiUW-, a' - u k'twvi on aicutiou t CHINATOWN IN SAN FRANCISCO. How They Dreu ud How They BetLaaoh in a ; the Coaches. ;- - - . - at nag. been, very amusing to witness at the races this year the changed attiro and manners of the New York society girls who have attended them. ; The costumes seen, when not concealed by an- English cover coat, have been strikingly mannish in cut and material. Standup collars, with edges wignuy aowu, cutaway coats, leaving ex- THE EARTHQUAKE. A FULL ACCOTNT 07 ITS DESTRUCTION AKD THE AREA IT COVERED. Charleston, 8. C, and Its 8arronnding the Cen tre of the Convulsion Great Loss, ' at that Point, of Life and Property. The 31st of August, 1886, will be indelib ly impressed upon the minds of the peo ple or. CHUfESE VICES AST) BELIQIOH, life. as in xne larger portion or the area vis ited, it was something that the inhabitants (with, perhaps, a few exceptions) had never experienced, andhe idea of an earthquake in this blessed land of ours was looked np on as an evil not to be- apprehended. ' ' CHARLESTON. .' Charleston seems to have been the so to speak, of the earth- A JTw Yorkers experience in ue upram Joists, OaaUing, Joes -and Other Hornsea. - T make the trip from this city to Sau Fr.tiH'iscw ami reixrn in xweuiy-iwo aajs, ami at the same time get a good idea ,t the loading points of interest on the rmte. i t ,v ortlinary affair, even in ii rimes of rnid transit. One who has just il tbisnd who had an opportunity f Mt'ing stme features of "Western life ran'ly eranted to the tourist, is Col. Alox nndr Thomson," of the Grand Army of the RpuWic, who went , to San Francisco as ni(h- to Oonimander-in-Chief Burdette on the m-casion of the recent national conveu- rtoti" of the (Srand Army in that city. In a talk vesterday with' Col. Thomson about liis trip, he .said that while in San Fran fisiw he came across eU old comrade who mrvetl iu the, same, compnuy .that he did kirintr the war, and wlio is now detec t'v n the SAn Frarciseo police force. Tlii! friend took, him through the Chiuese mtrttr f the city.. It Llike the HixthiWard here Mol- lKsrrv'.md Mott street-only a great dal vrorsrr l saio. " . n piace iscui up uuo little alffys and thev -aro- woonUr nhantivK very dirty. The so-called m:vk Kin tliem'i!iborhod are so filthy that ihev lHk as if they had never been cleaned. We first went into a Chinese drug store. TV proprietor .was remarkably polite and mike English well. The bottles and jars were, covervu wmi iulm anu uxiseii as u they hd not .been dusted in six, months. Next mv friend took, roe into a Chinese gambling, house that had been raided the week before. The doors ' weret of sheet irou two and a half inches thick. He told me that it required the force of a hydraulic jack to burst them open. A narrow pas siire -wav led into a room about fifteen feet long hy fi ve feet "wide, with a low ceiling. Ou one side there were rows of bunks, rs m hiplxMird, extending to the ceiling. while elose to.tue wall on tlie opposite side f the rjm was a long table for the eame, i ' -. ni : i etivered with mauuijr. ine oniy. person in the room was a little, old Chinaman, who was sitting lialr asleep m one corner. As we entered he arose quickly and said, No jahie to day. Next we went into an opium joint. It was in a "little alley, on a "level with the street." in both sides of the Mom there were bunkJand atone end a raised platform, at tlie side of which was affixed along lioard, known a.s a 'pillow.' The platform was ten feet long by. about MX feet " wide, a ud ou - this t lui mykers htreteh;d themselves,-their.'' heads resting ml the pillow. NnalT bva Limps were standing along the edge of the platform", which was raised two r three ftet above the floor. It was explained that as soon as a Miioker beeome stupefiwl he is lifted up ;h.v , the ttendanU and pu,t iu one of the 'hunks. -. - ' ..- i had a particular desire to get an in Mtle view of a Joss hoiwe, where the Chi nese worship, and we managed to do so. It was nearly sqnare, and up an uulighted pair of utairs. ; The room would measure. aUmt twenty feet each way. In the centre was. the principal Joss, while around the room stood four others. They were attout three feet long, made of wood, and repre- sentiiifr a figure seated. The face was horrihle looking' with " moustache and a s'lVage expressiou. In front of each was aii altar, on which stood a enp of tea, and directly in front of this was a small table poveri with a ml cloth, on which stood a fliwll glass lamp, constantly burning. Vniler the lamp there was a spiral-shaped piece of wood burning and emitting a very frairrant odor. Tlie walls of the room Were highly decorated , with mythical j figures in colors. One of the priests was 'here, a blear-eyed, blinking, decrepit old Chinaman, who endeavored to get us to jmy some punk wood at two bits apiece. The List place we visited was a Chinese theatre, which was a very bare room, ahout fifty feet square. Tim seats were of rough 'hoards. The stage was of ordinary planks, under which the audience could He fully, and there were no side scenes or curtain. The stage was about five feet deep; ; and in the wall at the back, in the eentre, there was a depression where the orehestra'is placed. Two doors on each side of this place form the only entrance to the stage of the actors. a creat nortion of th United State posed a small expanse of shirt bosom, regu- tor many years to come aye, even during ....... o vmtaut nun uviie noooy pins, I '. vuuijaraiiveiy sugui as me snocx ana cuns with, link sleeve-buttons, com pleted these costumes. Before the races these sporty young ladies always visited the saddling paddock, investigated the steeds that we're to. run with seemingly practical eyes, and loudly criticised their points with the nonchalance and apparent knowledge of professional jockeys. Another noticeable feature of this year's races has been the open manner in which the society girls present have indulged in oeumg upon them. KinceNew York socie ty begau to consider it a fashionable thing to attend , the races its feminine members have wagered more or less on the sly, but up till recently it has not been considered "good form" to place any more substan tial stakes upon favorite "steeds than the always desirable prloves and the toothsome candies. But all that is changed, and at the Cedayhurst races this spring young irirls, maidens and matrons eonld b sffn on all sides "making books" among them selves or sending obedient swains to" buy $5 tickets for them in the French pools, and their pleasure when they won and their chagrin when they lost was "in no way con- , cealed. The chief topic of discussion among them when going to the races were the chances of this and that horse, and the umoimt of their losses or gains on their re turn home. The lunch is of course an important fea ture of the day at the races, and the par ties who drive over from Hemnstead in four-in-hand find an especial enjoyment in this part of tho day's proceedings. Cham pagne is, never as sparkli ng as when -served on a coach-top after a dusty drive, and with the accompaniment of a jolly party of friends, and chicken "salad, ices and other concomitants of ttnolrmeo repast, such as a coach lunch provides, are. always partic ularly enticing at such times.- ' The trip to the races is not complete to the minds of most society girls' who attend them without a visit to the stabled to in spect the winning horse, and frequently when one of these young ladies has won any- considerable stake on any one racer she does not hesitate to kiss the successful steed, t By next year it will probably be in order for these sDortinsr maidens to em brace the jockey niso,-but thus far she has drawn the line at the horse. In conse quence of the adoption of this custom the stables near the club-house? at Cedarhurst have more or less -the appearance of a re ception, .for an hour following the races. From present appearances the prediction might safely be made that the feminine portioii of Now York society will have a race-course and contests - of its own some dav. ?ecalisc- Ponishmemt in China. The cangne is a large wooden collar, three or four feet in diameter, with a hole in the eenter, through which the prisoner's head is placed and tbeo11ar secured with padlolufUsonai yenubeavy nd fa-vent the prisoner from .reaching his hands. On the iod side of tho collar are pasted written lips stating Ue iiatore of the erima tfie Wamw inaS Aofamitred , aud the length Qfjiu senfence JThhsi class if prisoners have the worst food and ; ceils. aud are often crowded so thickly together that the cangues become unbearable, hot allowinir movement in the cell. They are sometime sent out intthS neighborhood wi"r thev committed the crime and forced to beg for food. Another form is the chair cangne. This is even more uncomforta ble than the ordinarv collar, and i not often used. " The prisoners are ebaiiiedand 1 SMS if. 1 eurei in a cruel manner, vine usua method is to fasten an iron collar Around the neck, and to this attach a chairi."' Fre quently they are chained in positiona that utterly preclude the slightest movement of the body. The overcrowded condition of ; the jails and tb cruel and ; nnneccessarily severe treatmenf must fearfully ravage the walih of prisoners confined for any length i ume. , ft ls.a curious 'factr that the sun never Ktimegashot on the base ball grounds as uoes on the harvest field. How It Feels to Be Scalped. ; F,r the VhW(CfK) CintMUe. A sick and sorry looking specimen of humanity stepped from the passenger train List night and climbed into a waiting wag on and was driven to the country, llis name was Samuel Neff. He is a man of about thirty years of age and his parents reside in Pine Creek. Young Neff is just home from Arizona, where he has been prospecting in the mines and acting as scout on the hunt for Indians. Unfortu nately for him . he found the , marderous redskins, and the-y almost made mince meat of him. " 1 One dav while riding through a canvon he was shot, through the right shouldei and fell from his horse. His assailants, finding he was not dead, tortured him out rageously. They cut gashes in his face ami all over his body, applied fire to his feet and hands, and ended their brutal as saults by scalping him. He suffered ag onies and prayed that death might come. Finally he fell into a faint, and upon awak ing he found himself being kindly cared for in a miner's cabin. The miner had picked him up and carried him a long dis tance on horse-back. Neff suffered weeks of excruciating pain and raved with a fever, and as soon as he was able to travel he took the road for home. . Last evening a Chronicle reporter asked Neff how it felt to have his hair lifted. " It is a dreadful, sensation, he said. u One thinks, as the skin is being torn from the.skull,.that his feet are coming right up through his' bod v to the top of his head. Oh, it is terrible. It is so painful that you cannot ntter a cry, and thousands of stars dance before j-our eyes. You imagine red- hot needles are dartina: in and out or your flesh, and you clasp your hands so closely that the nail cut into the flesh. I would rather be run through a thrashing machine, ground up in a sausage mill, "or thrown un der A locomotive, than undergo sucu an or deal. It makes me shudder to think of the toitures I have gone through with, and I never want to look upon the face of an other Indian. , , i i " ' Do many persons survive the opera tion t interrupted the reporter. Q "-No, I have only heard or two or three . .. ti i . .i men oesiaes myseu vno nave tosi meir hair by the scalping -knife and then lived to tell of it." As fountaiu-head. quake, we will begin with that city: On I riday, Aug. 27 ult;, Summerville, a little town 20 miles from Charleston, and the city- of Charleston itself were visited by very sensible earthquake shocks, and the awful calamity which, overtook those doom ed places on the night of tlie 31st of Aug ust prove that they were but forerunners of what was to follow. We give the follow- mS graphic description of the event from the pen of a writer in the licicg and Co- rier: - " 44 An earthquake, such as has never be fore been known in the history of this city, swept over Charleston last night shortly auer iu o clock, causing more loss and in jury to property arid far more loss of life than the cyclone of a year before. 4'The city is wrecked. The loss is not as great as it seems to be. But the streets are encumbered with masses of fallen bricks and tangled telegraph and telephone wires,- and up to an carlv hour it was al most impossible to pass from one part of tue city to another, 44 At ten minutes past 10. o'clock the men who were at work in the office of The .Yrr imi (onrier were startled at hearing rumbling sound. a r i i i ai erst it was thought to he a very rapid street car coming down Broad street. The sound grew in intensity, aud was ac companied by a rumbling sound, crashing and , shaking of the buildingr. The men jumped from their seats aud rushed to the doors looking for some wav of escape from thebuildiug. The building was swaying to such an extent that the men could onlv with the greatest difficulty hold their foot ing. As thev rushed down the back stairs they were enveloped iu clouds of dust, aud the whizziug of flying bricks was iu their ears. I he air was filled with enes and shrieks and the rumbling, crushing sounds of falling buildiugs.- Broad street was mstantly filled with men, women and children, iu all conditions of dress. Men in their shirt-sleeves, women aud children in their night clothes, just as they rushed from their beds to es cape impending destruction. There was a seene of the wildest confusion for a few minutes, but the exertions of a few cool- I headed men soon brought affairs to a state of order, aud had the people stationed in t ie .-afc;t possille c uidition. "The people 'had not been out of the buildings but a few minutes before there was another violent quivering of the earth, though not so strong and violent as the first one. This again threw the people into great fright and their screams and shrieks were again heard on all sides; Many fell upon their knees and prayed aloud for mercy. SmaH groups collected at the street corners for safety, and in different wavs awaited the result of the earth's quaklnsr. Devout Catholics - rev erently knelt and repeated appropriate prayers," while Protestants likewise prayed for mercy. The colored people were fran tic in their behavior. They rushed about the streets shriekiug at the top of their voices and crying 'Save us. Lord!' 'Have mercy upon a poor sinner, Lord " W hat have we done to bring this on usT 44 As the dust, which for several minutes enveloped everything with a heavy and thick cloud began to clear off, the amount of damage to the buildings was seen. The real force of the shock and the severity of its destruction just began to dawn upon the people. Broad street, as far as eould be seen, was filled with bricks and the walls of houses. Reports were heard of great damage to buildings in all parts of the city. As red lights were seen in widely differ ent parts of the city, there was a general apprehension of a conflagration. Fortu nately there was no panic among the peo- ple on account of the hres. 44 In many dwellings the carpets and bed ding were set on fire by lamps being over turned. In most cases these hres were soon extinguished, and a general confla gration was fortunately averted. As if by some special Frovidence there was not a breath of wind stirring:, and the fires were easily kept under control and extinguished ''The Main Station was crushed in, as if some mighty weight had fallen upon it. The City Hall, St. Michael's and the Court house show no evidence yet ot the shocks. The roof was torn from parts of the Con federate Home, and some buildings on the opposite side of the street were badly dam aged. Ine greatest damage on Broad street seems to have been . below Church street. There the street is filled with bricks to the Postoffice. The entire front was torn from the brick building whose lower floor is occupied by W. W. Smith as x a stencu faetorv. and whose upper floors are used as sleeping apartments by sever al famines. ."The stone ; copine to tho front of Tli News and Courier building was thrown in a mass on tlie pavement. The roof of the buildinsr of the Carolina Loan and. Trust Company was thrown in small pieces on the streets. The front of the building occu pied bv Walker, Jruvans & Uogswell was severely injured, a large part of it being thrown on - the" ground. The telegraph A ll - .1 . wires ; were turown on ine street ana a scene of the wildest confusion, but for tunately cool heads checked the outbursts of the people and prevented a panic that would necessarily have followed if the peo ple had been allowed to give vent to their feelings. In many of the streets the gaslights had been extinguished bv the convulsion, and I the darkness contributed greatly to in crease the fears and the general feeling of . . i . - . .... uneasiness oi ine crowds or people whoiert their habitations to seek safety m the open air. In many places prayer meetings were improvised, and at many a street corner could be seen kneeling groups of all ages and conditions, supplicating the Almighty t grant them mercy and protection in the hour of danger. 44 A strange scene presented itself at the City Hall Park. Here hundreds of people had sought refuge, as no tall buildings were near, the crumbling walls of which might endanger life or limb. Here and there mattresses were laid on the grass on which slumbered infants unconscious of the terrible scenes enacted around them. In one place lay an old lady very ill from typhoid fever, whose condition had been seriously aggravated by the terrors of the nignt. ! 44 All through the weary hours, till day- dawned, the streets and parks were filled with frightened humanity, who dared not return to their homes, fearing that a new convulsion might work even greater ruiu than the hrst. j"Jf -the ITofpital.The City Hospital was badly, wrecked, and it is stated that several of the inmates were killed. A num ber of the patients were injured. These were all taken out of the building 'and passed the night in the open air. i "Ten patients severely and some mortally wounded are iu the Hospital, six white and four colored. They present a terrible spec tacle. At the Hospital was also the body of a colored man who was killed by a fall ing piazza, and the body of Mr. Robert Alexander, the young English analytical chemist, was sent there horribly mangled, j 44 The patients of the Hospital have been moved from the wards to safer one-story buildings formerly used as wash and dining-rooms. "At the Jail. The scene at the jail beg gars description. When the buildings be gan to shake the prisoners made a dash for the door. Capt. Kelly, however,- stood at the door, pistol in hand, and firing a half dozen shots kept the crowd back. Their shrieks could be heard for squares, j;ud many of the inmates dashed themselves madly against the bars in their efforts to escape. They were kept within doors, however, aud although the building was badly shattered none of them escaped. u Thirty-eight Prisoners Escape. Capt Kelly, told a representative of The Mem and Corn ier early this morning that thirty eight of the prisoners whom he had taken down into the yard had managed to es cape. Whether any of them have been recaptured has not yet been ascertained, j "Fires. A large fire at the corner of yanderhorst aud King streets started right after the earthquake shock and was burning fiercely for about two hours, when at last three streams could be directed against it ; but this being found unavailing, the tidal drain was opened and another stream was put on. At least ten houses were on fire, and all of them were com pletely burnt. The fire rtill advanced and it appeared as if the whole block would be burnt 'down unless sufficient aid could be given to the Fire Department. Chief O'Neill pressed into service every negro that could be found, either to cut wood or to hold the horses. i "A serious fire broke out at the south east corner of George and St. Philip streets, aud two two-story houses, the one immedi ately on the corner and the other the next house east of it, were completely destroyed. The corner house belonged to Lieut. Heidt, of the police force, and the other was oc cupied by Miss Julia Wellington. The fire burned for about an hour before the arrival ot the fire engines, such was the demand for them all over the citv. Fortunately. however, there was very little wind blow- jug, and the neighboring houses, almost all of which are built of wood, were kept from catching by means of buckets of water. It was 11 o'clock before the first en gine arrived. A number of willing hands assisted the firemen in stretching the hose, and with one stream of water the fire was kept from spreadiug until the aiTiv.il of another engine a little later, when the fire was gradually subdued. The two-storv wooden buildmg at 48 The "Soar of the Sort" A goo3 deal has been written about the "ceaseless roar of the surf. It's a pig thing for a eouple of days and nights, but after that you'll begin to wonder why peo ple who come here expressly for that didn't 1 A.- A stay home ana hire some one io mm coffee mill. "The old thing keeps ham mering away for seven days and nights of thft wek. with no other purpose in view than td make a noise, and by and by every- t greatly impeded the movements of the peo- body votes it a bore. An ocean wun me pie, best interests of the public at heart would keep still at least half the time. The average person puts in about ten minutes watehing the "white-maued waves' roll in. After thathe wants some other performance. One wave is very much like . another, all being cut from the same piece of cloth. Each one has a white mane; each one rolls in just so far and breaks just as ; the' one before it did. i . , , . .' - i .. - : A pretty -girl won a musket in the French lottery. When they -gave, it to" her she asked: "Don't they give a soldier with it j " "There was much disputing as to the number of shocks. - .Some say that there were eight distinct shocks and others say that there were only four. All agree that the first was the great shock that djd the damage, and that each successive shock was less in intensity than the one imme diately preceding it. ? "The people began to collect in the Park at the City Hall as soon as it was safe to move about. There a very large concourse of men, women and children assembled in the centre of the central flower bed. Af ter they had collected there a distinct shock was felt, which came near creating King street, on the west side between jVanderhorst and Warren streets, and oc cupied by Schiadaressi Cros as a fruit store, caught fire during the convulsion and was burned to the ground. The fire extended, before the arrival of the engines. to the two-story wooden buildings on the inorth side, occupied as a clothing store by J. Li. .Mintz, and to the two-story brick tenement on the south side, occupied by Dr. W. R. Bull, the dentist, and Mrs. E Meyers. The two wooden buildincrs are said to belong to Mr. Simon Fass and are totally destroyed. 1 he brick buildings were also partially destroyed. At-about half -past 10 o'clock Alderman Rodgers had succeeded in getting two streams of water to play on the flames, and there was no danger of the fire spreading. The loss and insurance could not be ascertained. 44 One of the fires that broke out was that which was caused by an overturned lamp in a house' on Blake street. About four houses at the corner of St. George and St. Philip streets were burned.- " . ' "A Miracle. After tho fire on King street broke out and when the whole of the lower wards housetops were illuminated, a strange thing was seen. On the top of the ruins of the porch of the Main Station was seen a Cross, the emblem of Christian ity, which shone with resplendent bright ness. There never was a cross ou the buildiug as far as known, and the appear ance of this one soon attracted attention as it stood out of the ruins. A policeman it is needless to say that he was an Irish man pointed to it, and said, as he uncov ered his head, 'It is that that saved us.' The escape of the policemen who were not on duty is certainly remarkable. -. There were thirty men sleeping in the upper story of the building, which, together with the porch, is a completo wreck. - 44CK8I in tAe.J.KW At 1 o'clock this morning 'the body of a colored woman was tiken out from the debris at the corner of Meeting and Broad streets near the lamp- Sost. It proved to be the body of Mrs. acob Middleton. The unfortunate woman must have been passing just' as the east ion Hotel heard piercing cries for help. They went down Hasel street in the di rection of the cries and found a white man and woman half -buried in the ruins of the Lazarus buildings They were extricated and sent to the HospiU lin a wagon furnished by Mr. Pickett. I "Bringing in the Killed and Wounded. A8; the night drew on the search for the dead and wounded continued. Stretchers were improvised out of shutters, doors and loose planks,and the dead and wounded were conveyed to the open space. Washington Park" was speedily filled with" impromptu stretchers on which the dead and wounded were stretched. Drs. Manning Simons, P. ,G. DeSa'ussure, McDow, Ravenel and others were out and rendered all the assist ance in their power. 44 Casualties. Mrs. Williams j umped from the second story; of her residence, and in jured her spine, i Mrs. E. Galliot, colored, was struck by a brick, and her head badly injured. Her daughter was also badly hurt in the same way. Mrs. Robert Mar tin was badly hurt. Mr. M. J. Lynch was desperately hurt in front of his son's store in Meeting street. A stone of great weight fell upon him and broke one of his legs, if not both. Dr. Chazal informed a reporter that he had been called away to attend to two persons who had been injured at the house of Mrs. Lazarus, at 64 Hasel street. A colored woman, in an unconscious con dition, was found in front of the Market in Meeting street. ! A policeman said that he had 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 iWentworth and Meeting streets no less than 12 wounded persons who had already received his professional at tention. Among them was a young girl whose leg was broken. A colored man named Charles Rivers was struck by a fall ingwall and his left leg was broken below the knee. His wife was also badly wounded at the same time. Moses Brown, colored, was badly wounded by falling bricks. One of the sons of Mrs. J. N. Robson is reported to have been badly hurt by the falling of the piazza. A Very sad-case was that of MrJ R. Alexander, a young chemist, who was crushed to death at a boarding-house on Meeting street. He had just bought a small steam pleasure yacht, and took his hrst and last i trip in it last evening. Mr; Hammond, brother of Mr. Isaac Ham mond, is thought to be fatally wounded, both his hips and legs being broken, and also, his left ami. He said to Mr. Pouluot that he did not know whether he jumped from the! three-storv window on Broad street -or was thrown out. He crawled from the. sidewalk to the middle of the road, and) on being removed uttered the most heartrending shrieks. A colored wo man in Beaufain street killed. Isabella Howard seriously injured. Mr. Heidt se riously injured. i It is reported that one of the factory girls living at the boarding house at the corner of America and Blake streets ws killed, A colored woman-living in the yard of Capt. Smalls was instantly killed, arid a colored woman was killed, also, in Pitt street. - The house of Mrs. Annie Torek fell in and wounded her, it is thought, fatally. A young girl named Jessen was also injured at the same place. Upon being taken home she commenced bleeding internally. It is thought she will die. Miss Mamie Palmer received danger bus internal injuries by a falling chimney. Mr. Ainslev Robson was killed bv the fall ing of a piazza. Jnlia Smalls, colored, in fant killed. Lavinia Jacobs, colored, killed. Mr. J.C L. Richardson was seri ously injured in the head by his house fall jug upon him. j His condition is very criti cal. His colored servant was likewise dan gerously :.hurt, i several of his limbs being broken. .- Mr. Ed. Lively, of Richmocd. Vai, who, boards at 905 Fifth street in that city,, was walking in front of the City Hos pital. The side of a house fell on him and padly injured Jhis back and head. He (crawled from under the debris, and saw some men at he store on the corner of Mazyck-and Queen streets, whom he sup- (oed to 'have been killed, as he left them ying on the sidewalk. He staggered on as far as City Hall Park, and fell completely overcome. A mulatto man was hit on the head with a brick at 110 Trade street ; dead. Olive Nickleby, mulatto girl, 11 years old, killed on Church street. Isaac Jenkins,: colored, wall fell on him in Cow alley. Seriously damaged all over his body. W Pratt jumped out of a window. Leg broken. I Capti II. A. DeSaussure was pain fully injure! in the head while at his office. ; Ellen Mitchell, mulatto, serious internal injuries.! Mrs. Raynard fell" down the steps and dislocated her hip bone. The newhew of J. W. Oldenbuttel is .seriously injured.' A. colored girl in the yard of O. W. Williams, Jr., is seriously injured. Susan Days was seriously injured Mary Ann Drayton, 'colored, sustained painful injuries on body and lower limbs. Kate Hamilton, colored, sustained painful in juries iu the head from falling bricks. Among those who were killed were Su san Middleton colored, and another col ored woman, both of whom were crushed under the fallen portico of the Main Sta tionhouse. On Mary street, near Meeting, a house was shaken down and all the in mates escaped; except a little colored child named Lizzie Fraser, who was crushed to death. Just at the first shock a wagon bearing two men was passing the corner iof Reid and King streets, when the gable end of the store on that corner fell and covered the unfortunates with tlie debris. one of whom was killed. It was very late when the body was extricated, and it was impossible to ascertaiu the person's name. j Willie Schillce was seriously injured by a cornice of the house falling on his hip. James Dora had his arm broken and his shoulder-blade knocked out of place. Mr, M. J. Flynn, a compositor on The News and Courier, jumped from the window of the composing room into the side alley when the first shock was felt. He sustained se rious injuries about the shoulder and the arm and head. ! damage to Buildings . from Vie Shoct. The track of the earthquake is very per ceptible on Broad street. Standing at the I'ostomce ana - looking west an almost un "passable roadway of debris meets the eve. Through this! a walk has been cleared, however, early this morning. The build ing of the Chamber of Commerce is badly damaged, the parapet on the south and east walls having been thrown down. by the violence of the shock. The building of Walker, .hvans b Cogswell has also suf fered," while the heavy granite slabs which formed the parapet of Ike Aetcs and' Com rier building lay upon the sidewalk, leftv- wall of the building fell. -.- Aboftt the same I ing the slate roof and a portion of the attic time two gentlemen who were near. Pa vil- floor exposed.'. .In front of the Xetcs and Courier building a water main had been broken by the fall of the granite parapet and the gutters are flooded with water. Almost the entire front of the building occupied by Myer's segar store and Smith's stencd establishment is torn out, leaving the two upper floors exposed. The-Plenge building, at the! corner of Church street, was badly damaged. Most of the build ings on the street are more or less dam aged, but the violence of the earthquake is most perceptible at the historic intersec tion of Broad and Meeting streets. The Police Station is almost a complete wreck. The upper edge of the east wall has been torn down and that of the north wall has fallen on the roof of the porch, carrying it away aud leaving only the la rge' fluted pillars standing. The City Hall apparently escaped serious damage, but is badly cracked on the east walL The Courthouse building is badly damaged, the walls being cracked in several places and portions of the roof and gables being thrown down. I The fire-proof building seems to stand as firm as a rock; the gables of the north and south porches, however, made of solid brown sand-stone, have been thrown down to the pavement bslow. This appears to be the only damage done to the building. The worst wreck in the locality, however, is St. Michael's Church, which seems to be' doomed to destruction. The steeple, the repairs on which had just been completed, seems to be intact, but it is clearly out of plumb, and is in mo mentary danger of falling. The massive porch has also been wrenched from the body of the church, and the building itself has' been j cracked in four places. One crack in tho north wall extends from the eaves to the' lower window. .Two on the west face of f he church extend the en tire height of the building, and oue on the south wall also (extends from the eaves down almost W the foundation. These cracks are all immediately under the stee ple, which seems almost impossible to stand for any lengthof time. The hands on the dial of the clock pointed to five minutes of 10, which must have been the hour of the first shock on Tuesday night. What a scene of desolation the fash ionable boulevard of Charleston, King street, presents 5 Commencing at Broad street one passes through a block of burned houses. -The fire started at No. 118, the third building from the corner of Broad street on the east side, consumed the en tire row of buildings as far north as Tully's old stand, next south of the Quaker grave yard. The few houses left on that side of the street are more or less shattered and gutted. The few houses left on the west side of the 6tre et north of Broad street have not escaped tho general fate, al though the damage is not as great as in other portions of the street. . The immense vacant lot on the west side of the street is occupied by the families, most of them colored, who lived in the burnt houses and who are camped out on the sward with the few household effects saved from the flames. From Queen street to Horlbeck's alley al most every house is shattered, the tops of the walls near tlie roof being thrown down. The building at the corner of Clifford and King streets, formerly Silcox's furniture store, has, to all outward appearance, mir aculously escaped. From Horlbeck's alley to Market street the damage is not as great as it might have been. Robbs's lot, on the east side; of the street, is occupied by several hundred people 44 camping out." The Victoria Hotel appearsto have escaped and the Academy of Music shows no signs of the earthquake, on the outside at least. From Market to Hasel street the damage does not seem '. to be as great as in other portions of the city. The Waverly House is externally injured. The large red brick boarding-house, however, immediately op posite and next south of the corner. of Beau fain street, has ' suffered badly, the top of the wall under the eaves having been stripped off on all sides. The handsome block of stores from Beaufain to Wentworth streets lias been singularly preserved, very few of the French pLite-glass fronts being broken, al though here and there a parapet is thrown down and bricks displaced from tho walls. Masonic Templeseems to have escaped, and the damage to the buildings between this point and Calhoun street seems not to be so great as far as outward appearances go. In Wentworth street the handsome hall of the German Artillery has been badly damaged. The northeast and northwest corners of the building have both gone, the huge masses of mason a ry being lodged on the ground near by. Mr. Morris Israel's new house, uncompleted, shows no signs of injury. St. Peter's Church and the old German Catholic Church, occupied by St. Mary's School, as well as St, Peter's School on Society Street, are badly wrecked. The Wentworth strfeet Lutheran Church is ap parently unmjored. Coming down Meeting street from Cal houn street the signs of the earthquake - m i T -ir Tf 1 l are very piain. ine t-avuion xioiei nas lost a portion of the parapet of the north wall, but it appears to be otherwise unin jured. Tho Charleston Hotel has lost the centre portion of the parapet of the veran dah, which was precipitated to the side walk below, crushing the two handsome lamps which stood at the main entrance of the hotel ! Cumberland street is almost a complete wreck, from Meeting street to East Bay, where the spacious store of Messrs. Wil liam M. Bird & Co. is level with the ground. The saddest wreck of all in this locality, however, "is the venerable St. Phillip's, which like St. - Michael s appears to have been almost' totally wrecked. The des truction wrought in the interior of the church is indescribable. .The beautiful spire is also a total wreck almost. On the southeast side of the spire several o' the arches just above the clock tower have been torn out and thrown down, while the porch, like St Michael's, is badly cracked and wrenehedJ It is impossible as yet to tell the extent of the damages to this church, but it is feared that they are of a very serious character. The front portico of the Medical College, in Queen street, has fallen down and the rest of the building is badly damaged. The Unitarian Church in Archdale street is badly wrecked, the top of the steeple having fallen through the roof of the eh'irch. The walls of the South Carolina Railway Company, facing Ann street, are consider ably cracked, though still standing. .TheVredVnoe of tho family of -the late Dr. Aldrich," corner of Meeting and John streets, received a. severe shaking np, and a considerable: portion of the wall facing John street has fallen. - St. Luke's Church, so far as can be on judged from a view of the exterior, is not greatly wrecked, but a portion of the end walls, near the roof, has fallen down. No. 297 East Bay street bears evidence of a severe shaking up, and will probably have to be entirely rebuilt, Among the poorer classes many families are rendered homeless, and as soon as it is practicable means should be taken for their relief. " - . The building known as the American Hotel, leased at present by Mr. M. J. Archer, corner King and George streets, is badly wrecked in the interior and not a room in the hotel is fit to be occupied. A mass of brick and stone fell from the back wall of the house into the crotch of a large fig tree planted by Mr. Archer 18' years ago and split it clean to the roots. The O'Donnell big house, two doors be low the Bull Pringle mansion, basement, three stories and mansard roof, was badlv wrecked. Both ends of the mansion feil out. No one was hurt in the house, which was occupied by the Missses Logan as a boarding-house, but the family of Mr. Shackelford, living opposite, were just coming out of their house. Mrs. Shackel ford, Miss Ann Shackelford, Lewis Shack elford and Neese Shackelford were more or less painfully injured, the last more than the others, but none dangerously. All the brick houses in the lower part of King street and in Lambol and Legare streets were badly damaged, but no loss of life is reported, and the wooden houses es caped comparatively uninjured. The list given above embraces only the principal public buildings which sustained injury. Many private residenees, stores, etc., were destroyed or injured to a greater or less extent, but lack- of space prevents an extended notice. September 2. Ther; was another slight shock at 1a.m. to-day. Telegrams sent here last night could not be delivered on account of the general confusion, the peo- Ele being camped out. Every effort is eing made to deliver them this morning. We hope to have telegraphic communica tion fairly re-established to-day. . -; The Western Union officials state no messages sent to Charleston last night could be delivered on account of the gen eral confusion. The hotels are empty and the people have deserted their dwellings " and are encamped on open lots, and some cannot be found. The main office of the Western Union Telegraph company at Charleston was badly injured. - The bat teries were destroyed and all the instru ments ruined by the falling bricks and plas ter. An office has been opened, about a mile and a half from the old one, and two ' wires have been placed in working order. Noue of their employees were seriously in jured. At 5 o'clock this morning all their operators were compelled to quit their posts and seek some rest. The excitement had been so great that for forty-eight hours they had obtained no sleep. The last earthquake shock was expe rienced here at 1:50 last night, since which time there have been no vibrations. The people are just beginning to pick np cour age to come out. Efforts are being made to clear paths through the streets for the passage of vehicles and pedestrains, and the city once more begins to show some signs of life. Fer tw long days and nights of horror women and children have - been camped out in parks and squares. The earthquake has swept over the city like a besom of destruction, and Charles ton is laid down in the dust. At 11:30 P. M. Wednesday, a heavy earth wave passed through the city. Its coming was presaged by quite a number of explo sions dim and distant, and which com menced to be heard fully five minutes be- -fore the vibration was felt. The wave was somewhat more pronounced than the two which had preceded it, one'at 8:25 A. M., and the other at 5:15 P. M., and as it passed by to the northwest there followed sounds which indicated falling walls or buildings. This was the last vibration on Wednesday . night. - A continuation of the account of Charles ton's experience will be found on the 2nd page, inside. SUMMERVILLE. . The horror of the situation in Summer ville Wednesday was much intensified by centain manifestations not observed in Charlestou to any great extent. All dur ing the day there was a constant series of detonations, now east, now west, and from all possible directions, It resembled a dis charge of heavy guns at intervals of about ten minutes and was like the sounds of a bombardment at a great distance. All of the explosions were not accompanied by tremors of the earth, as it was only occa sionly that the earth would quake from the subterranean discharge. The remark able fact was noted in Summerville in re spect to the bulging of the water from the interior of the earth that nearly all of the wells had been at low water. There was a sudden rise in all of these wells and the additional water was pure. Looking down into one of these wells, an observer could on the eve of any loud detonation see the water rise up in the wells and after the shock again subside. All the stores were closed and people who were on the" streets wan dered about in an aimless wav, not know ing what next to expect. All the inhabi tants had abandoned their nouses after the shocks Tuesday night and few of them had the temerity to return. The shocks axe, said to have been much more violent than in Charleston, but in general character were of course the same. In Sommer ville, however, the people rushed, fright ened, into the inky black darkness and in the general gloom and despair the wailing of women, the shrieks of children and the frightened voices of men made up a scene and sounds that were equally distressing and appalling as in Charleston. -All through the night there was nothing bat sickness and sorrow and suffering.'- There : was not a home that had not been made desolate in a greater or less degree. All chimneys had disappeared, walls were rent in twain, ceilings fell, and in numerous cases houses that rested on solid blocks of masonry were leveled to the ground. . . Other houses were split from top to bot tom and left with yawning chasms in the buildings. In a yard, strange, to say water from a well eame np like a water spout and overflowed the yard and depos sited six inches of sand for a distance of tw'enty steps around the well Id one yard is an upheaval about eight feet square. At the Nettles house two eolored people. Thomas Ellis and John Allen,. were. killed (Continued oh second page, 1st column.) ,
Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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