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I 4 l tv Wmm Jm- ■ ■■■ ■■ >1 ■ W I I I M I' I o tLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manager. AIKEN S. C., TUESIfAY, SE^TESiliER 7, 1SSG. VOLUME 5.—NUMBER 47. ARTflQUAKE i HHAKKjk FROM CK\- l TO Cl HCUMFKKKNCE. »l« City injured—Sad Loss of ''Ire Succeasive Shocks and Incidents—The Most ptrotu Erent in the City’s ? p 7- Tews aryl Courier .Sept. 1. ■earthquake, such as has never jbeen known in the history of |ty, s.vept over Charleston last I shortly after 10 o’clock, causing loss and injury to property and >ro loss of life than the cyclone [rear before. •city is wrecked. The loss is not as it seems to bp. But the re encuinbered with masses bricks and tangled telegraph [hone wires, and up to an ear- was almost impossible to >tn one part of the city to an- Irst shock \yas, by far, the most Its effect can be judged by the luces of Capt. Dawson, of the k aud Courier, who lives in a brick residence in Bull street, iHedge street. Dawson was in his room, on [cond story, when the first shock ?d. The house seemed literally on its ayis. The first shock wed by a second and third, ire than the first. The air was litli the cries and shrieks of and children. From every that quite neighborhood came ‘God help us!” “God save Fb. my God!” It was worse |e worse battle of the war. rUrst agony was over it md that the ceiling of every ’in the house was cracked, the ||stern was broken apart, the huge in tin* attic was pouring its flood ler into the bedrooms. In the par- statues had been wrenched iir bases and thrown qn to the (n the hall the massive lamp |ually been turned around. In the house was a large porch, ivy pillars and solid marble ill this was swept away as 'it had been shaved off with a fazor. The beautiful house was a 'reck. And what was Capt. Daw- >a-’s experience was that of hundreds others in Cty^rleston. There was in all five shocks, dimin ishing in violence from the first. What a scene was there! The side- ralks in the streets were dotted with lothers, wives and daughter^ with l£dr protectors, awaiting in anxious jection still another agony. The was thick with horrid rumors, and ^lurid glare of the fires but height- the general ruin. kNewsaud Courier gildings are with the rest, apd naturally floyees, finding themselves ^tened to their hqmes to learn the members of their fami- Lfiesg were, of course, in some Mid h has been difficult in the *« to bring together printers i£h to tnake the shock and severity of its destruc tion just began to dawn upon the peo ple. Kroad street, as far as could 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, and as red lights were seen In widely different parts of thecity, there was a general apprehen sion of a conflagration. Fortunately there was no panic among the people on account of the fires. In many dwellings the carpets and bedding was set on fire by lamps be ing overturned- Iq most cases these fires were soon extinguished, ami a general conflagration was fortunately averted. As if by some special Provi dence 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 Courthouse show no evi dence yet of the shocks. The roof was torn from parts of the Confederate Home and some buildings on the op- positi^dde of the street were badly ^ami?d. The greatest damage on Broad street seems to have been be low Church street. There the street is filled with bricks to the Postoffice. The entire front was torn from the brick building whoso lower floor is oc cupied by W, VV. Smith as a stencil factory, and whose upper floors are used as sleeping apartments by several families. The stone coping in front of the News and Courier building was thrown in a mass on the pavement. The roof of the building of the Caro lina Loan and Trust Company was thrown in small pieces on the streets. The front of the building occupied by Walker, Evans & Cogswell was se verely injured, a large part of it being thrown on the ground. The telegraph wires were thrown on the street and greatly impeded the movements of the people. 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 did the damage, and that each successive shock was less in in tensity than the one immediately pre ceding 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 largq concourse of mem women and child ren assembled in the centre of the central flower bed. After they had collected there a distinct shock w r as felt, which came near creatingi a scene of tbe \yjldest confusion,~tyut fortunately cool heads checked fhe outbursts of the people and prevent ed a panic that would necessarily hi ve followed if the people Ijaye been lowed to give vent to their feeli ANOTHER ACCOUNT. The Experiences of Anothc of the S<af The wild tremors < startled the people'of Charleston’ ly Friday morning were but the mvior j Up f‘ e •^ ew8 and cursors of the more terrible vlsita Kynsyriogellwr wiUl ““JwlilcU foil upon the city last nig iresstnen to pr i u t it . An prtlI? c u/ About ,.L •ose who were so true la such an 5 me/gencyr i cannot pretend tq give more than high sketch of the consequences of ihe disaster, It must be scrappy, and :n a sense, less or more than the truth. AS SEEN AT HIS ROST. heEjnerkmees of the Nows Editor of News and Courier. *At ten minutes past 10 o’clock the |en who were at work In the office of |ws and Courier were startled at mibling sound, jit was thought to be a very it car coming down Broad ie sound grew in intensity, companj^d by a rumbling >ors, itxTKing lor some Jape from the buildipg. The fas swaying to such an ex- the men could with the tiificulty hold their footing, rushed down the back stairs [re enveloped in clouds of dust, rwhizzing of flying bricks leir ears. The air was filled |es and shrieks and the rumb- ishiug sounds of falling build- street was iustantly filled I, women and children, in all |s of dress. Men in their , r es, women and children in Itclothingjustas they rushed |r beds to escape impending ion. There was a scene of Wildest confusion for a few min- utes,the exertions of a few cool- headed men soon brought affairs to a state of order, and had the people sta tioned in tie safest possible condi tion. The people had not been out of the buildings but a few minutes before there was another violent commotion and a quivering of the earth, though not so strong and violent as the first one. This again threw the people in to great fright and their screams and phrieks were again heard on all sides. k Mauy fell upon their knees and pray ed aloud for mercy. Small groups _ Reeled at the street corners for safe- ly, and in different wW 8 awaited the result of the earth’s quaking. Devout (Catholics reverently knelt and repeated appropriate prayers, while Protestants likewise prayed aloud for mercy. The colored people were frantife In their behavior. They rushed about the street slujek- Jng ut the top of tl|elr voices and cry ing “Save qs. Lord!” “Have mercy pit a poof kinner, Lord!” ‘fWliat have we doye to bring this on us?” As the dust, which for several min- i enveloped everything as with a ivy and tide!; cloud began to clear oirT. the amount of dama&e to the seen. 'The real force of About ten minutes past 10 o’clV ck ' without a moment’s warning, a terranean roar was heard, fyuild!( n e 8 shook from garret to cellar, lhen| the fearful noises growing louder louder, buildings swayed to an like trees in a storm, and then cl the crash of tumbling hoiioes, simultaneously mingling with t notes of horror, came the shrieks wailing of frightened women children. Those who rushed into the st were enveloped in clouds of m and brick dust, and wherever th fell there were fragments of bull torn and twisted telegraph wires general havoc. Men, women children, many in their night ap " * nlaco *to place seeKing a spot where they might be safe from danger. The first two violent shocks, which followed each other so closely that they seemed as one, were of about thirty seconds’ duration. They were succeeded, after an iuterval of about two minutes, by another shock, which though not as severe as the first, was of suffleieqt violence to cause appre hensions that the work of destruction was not yet done. Fortunately, however, no damage resulted from this shock, nor3'et from the three very slight ones which fol lowed at intervals varying from fifteen to twenty minutes. In many of the streets the gaslights had been extinguished by the con vulsion, and the darkness contfibuted greatly to increase the «ears and the general feeling of uueasiness among the crowds of peoplq who left their habitations to seek safety in the open air. In many places prayer meet ings were improvised, and at many a street corner could be seen kneeling groupsof all ages and comlitious, sup plicating the Almighty to grant them mercy and protection in the hour of danger. 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 slum bered infants unconscious of the terri ble scenes enacted around them. In one place lay an old lady very ill from typhoid fever, whose condition had been seriously aggravated by the ter rors of the night. All through the weary hewrs, tijl day dawned, the streets and parks were filled with frightened humanity, who darc<t pot return to their* homes, tearing that p new conuulsinn might work even greater ruin than |he first. casualties. M^s. Williams jumped front the sec ond story of her residence at the oor- 1 ner of Went Wort l^and Meeting streets oud injured her spine badly. She is the daughter of Mrs. M. J. Williams. Mrs. E. Galliot, colored, was struck by a brick, opposite the Pavilion Ho tel, and her head badly injured. Her daughter wk* also badly hurt in the same way. Mrs. Robert Martin, wife of the shqe merchant in Market street, near King, was badly hurt. Mr. M. J. Lynch was desperately hurt in front of his son’s store in Meet ing street. A stone of great weight fell upon him and broke one of his legs, If nc'; both. He was taken to a place of safety in what was feared to be a dying condition. Father Duffy was with him. Dr. Chazel informed a Reporter that he had been called away to attend to 2 persons who ha4 been injured at the house of Mrs. Lazarus, at G4 Hazel street. No particulars could be had. A colored women, in an unconscious coudition was found in front of the Morket in Meeting street. A police man said that he had seen two dead bodies in King street, north cf Broad street. Dr. Buist informed a Reporter that there were in the City' Park at the cor ner of Wentworth and Meeting streets no less than 12 wounded persons who had already received his professional attention. Among them was a young girl whose leg was broken. A colored man named Charles Riv ers, living at No. 3 King street, was struck by a falling wall, near the cor ner of King street and the Battery, and his left leg was broken below the knee. His wife, Sarah Rivers, was also badly wounded at the same time. Moses Brown, colored, was badly wounded, on King street, by falling bricks. One of the sons of Mrs. J. N. Rob son, living on Coming street, near Cannon, is reported to have been bad ly hurt by the falling of the piazza. A very sad case was that of Mr. 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 first and last trip in it last evening. Mi. Hammond, brother of Mr. Issae Hammond, is thought to be fatally wounded, both his hips and legs be ing broken, and also his left arm. He said to Mr. Poulnot that he did not know whether he jumped from the three-story window .on Broad street or was thrown out. Ije crawled from the sidewalk to the middle of the road, and on being removed uttered the most heartrending shrieks. A colored woman in Beaufaiu street killed. Isabella Howard, vend N^ruu'/, seriously inj^vecIS Mr. Heidi, Chalmerq streets, seri> ously injured. ) It is reported that one of the factory Fgirls living it the boajvb’inir'fiouso at I the corner of.ACfnerica and Blake | street*, was billed. colored woman living in the yard Capt. Smalls, in Bull gtreet, was 'stantly killed, and a colored woman was killed, also, in Pitt street. The house T>f Mrs. Anniq Torek, on Secession street, fell in and wounded her, it is thought, fatally. A young girl named lessen, was also injured at the same place. Upon being taken homp she commenced bleeding internally. It is thought she will die. Miss Minnie Palmer, residence 17 John street, received dangerous inter nal injuries by a falling chimney. Mr. Aimsley Robson was killed by the falling of a piazza. This is men tioned elsewhere. Julia Smalls, colored, infant killed. Lavania Jacobs, colored, Chalmers street, killed. Mr. J. C. E Richardson, living at 12 Frieud street, was seriously injured in the head by his house falling in upon him. His condition is critical. His colored servant was likewise danger ously' hurt, several of her limbs being broken. Mr. Edmund Lively, of Richmond, Va., who boards at 005 5th street in that city, was walking in front of the City Hospital. The gieje of a house fell in on him and badly injured his back and head. He crawled from un der the debris, and saw some men at the store on the corner of Mayzick and Queen streets, whom he supposed to have beep killed, as he left them lying on the sidewalk. He staggered on as far as the City Hall Park, and there fell completely overcome. A mulatto man was hit on the head with a brick at 110 Tradd street. Dead. OliveNiekleby, mulatogirl, 11 years old, killed at Judge Bryan’s yard Church street. Isaac Jenkins, colored, wall fell on him in Cow ally. Seriously damaged all over body’. W. Pratt jumped out of window 155 Calhoun, leg broken. Capt. H. A. DeSaussure was pain fully injured iu the head while at his oifiee. Ellen Mitchell, mulatto, serious internal injuries, residence Judge Bry'an’s.yard. Mrs. Baynard, St. Philip street, near the public school, fell down the steps and dislocated her hip bone. The nephew of J. W. Oldenbuttel, East Bay, ip seriously injured. A colored girl in the y’ard of G. W. Williams, Jr., Atlantic street is seri- ! ously injured. Susan Days was seriously injured at 6 Philadelphia street. Mary Ann Drayton, colored, 1 Phil adelphia street, suseained painful in juries on body and lower limbs. Kate Hamijton, colored, 5 Philadel phia street, sustained painful injuries in the head froiq falling bricks. Among those whqi were killed were Susan Middleton, colored, and another colored woman, both of whom were crushed under the fallen portico of the main Stationhouse. On Mary street, near Meeting, a house was shaken down and/all the inmates escape** except a little col ored child named Lizzie Fraser, who was crushed to death. Just at the first shock tt w’agon bearing two men was passing the corner of Reid and Kingr streets, when the gable end of the rstore on that corner fell and coverefl the un fortunates with the debris, one of whom was killed. It was/ very late when the body was extriclated. and it was impossible to asc/ertain the person’s name. Willie Behillee, who cllerks in J. W r . Oldenhuttle’s restaura/nt, was se riously injured by a connice of the house falling on his hip a he was ta ken down to Boyce’s wl/mrf and at tended by a doctor who sriid no bones were broken, but his spi/ne was serw onaly injured. James Dorn, who lived over Olden- buttle’s restaurant, had! his arm bro ken and his shoulder ipocked out of place. Mr. M. J. Fly r nn, a The News and Co from the window of room into the side allej shock was felt. He ous injuries about th one arm and head. At 1 o’clock this m/orning the body of a colored womail was taken out from the debris at tlie corner of Meet ing and Broad streeus, near the lamp- post. It proved to Ms f he body of Mrs. Jacob Middleton./ The unfortunate woman must have/ been passing just as the east wall of ttie building fell. About the sameliime t\yo gentlemen who were near tine Pavilion Hotel heard piercing cyies for help. They went down to itasel street iu the di rection of the crijes, and found a white man and woiniyn half-buried in the ruins of the Laaarup building. They were extricatedi and sent to the Hos- jompesitor on |kiek, jumped ho composing when the first sustained seri- shoulder, and piltal in Picket. a wagon furnished by Mr. BIUNClINQ IN i TTIK KILLED AND WpUNDED. As the night ^vore on the search for the dead and Stretchers we shutters, door the dead wounded continued. |e improvised out of and loose planks, and iid wounded were Sausiiire, M were out ai tauce in the AT Th ed- conveyed to thfeqpeq space. Washing ton Park W£»s speedily filled with impromtu stjretohers, on which the dead and w/uiuded were stretched. Drs. Manning Simons, P. G. De- Dow, Ravenel and others rendered all the assis- power. HE HOSPITAL. tal^was badly wreck- hofthe in- lled. A number of the injured. 'J hose were f the building and pass- in the open air. ts severely and some nded are in theHospital, six white fanen and four colored. They present terrible spectacles. At the Hospital (was also the body of a color ed man, who was killed by a falling piazza, Mud the body of Mr. Robert Alexander, a young English analytic al chen^sfc, was sent there horribly mangle The patients of the Hospital have been reeved from the wards to safer one-st6ry buildings formerly used as wash and dining-rooms. * AT THE JAIL. The, scene at the Jail beggars de scription. When the building began to shake the prisoners made a dash for the door. Capt. Kelley, however stood at the door, pistol in hand, and firing a half dozen shots kept the crowd back. Their shrieks could he heard for squares aud many of the in mates dashed themselves madly against the bars in their efforts to es cape. There were kept within doors, however, and although the building was badly shattered none of them es caped. THIKTY-EIGHT prisoners escaped. Capt'Kelly' told a representative of the News and Courier early this morn ing that 38 of the prisoners whom he had taken down iuthe yard had man aged to escape. Whether any of them have been recaptured has not yet been ascertained. WASHINGTON PARK. The Scenes ami Incidents at the Cor ner of Broad Street, by the City Editor. Within five minutes after the first shock the residents of the lower wards or such of them as were able to get out of their houses, were out on the streets. Remembering the descrip tions of earthquakes in other parts of the world, a rush was made at once for the open space. Washington Square was soon crowded with wo men and children in their night cloth ing and with men hurrying to render all the assistance possible. As the time went by the crowd in creased. Stalwart men rushed into the tottering houses aud brought out the halt, the lame and the blind, others rushed in for clothing and bed ding and tiie Park was soon filled with a crowd of panic stricken women and children. To add to the horrors of the occasion the heavens were sud denly illuminated with bright blazes iu three distinct portions of the cify —in the southwest, the west and the north. EugineNo. 1 came out and was driven inti e direction oftheliipin tl e southwestern portion of the city. lathe park quite a uumlier of col ored people assembled, and, as is their wont, fell to praying and shout ing. Tnerq were a number of inva lids, one lady who was in childbed had tq Jio brought out qn a stretcher. An effort was made to stop the noise, and for a time a riot was threatened, but the twp colored Opm who were making all the noise were removed and after that eompara- tive quiet was restored. About ten minutes after the first shock another rumbling sound was heard and this was followed by sever al others. About 10.30 there was another rumbling sound, aud accom panied by a very distinct movement of the earth, but there was no further falling of buildings. It is, of cqurae, impossible to give the number of causualties. The build ings in Broad, Meeting, King, East Bay, aud Queen streets are all more or less injured. The portico of the Hi bernian Hall was torn completely out. The Stationhouse and Courthouse we e badly wrecked. All the houses y the neighborhood were more or less damaged. The fire in Legare street destroyetl three houses. Soon afterward a fire broke out in the row of wooden build ings on King street, between Broad and Qeen streets. There was no water and no engines, and the block bid fair to be destroyed. The third fire was said to be on John street. It appar- antly burned itself out. THE ORPHANHOUSE. The Orphanhouse, which everybody thought would be completely ruined, islanding. It sustained no damage except by the falling of plaster. The inmates were all gathered together after the shock and kept waiting at the large gate in case another shock should occur. There was no excite ment, thechildren being kept in line four abreast. So far as could be ascer tained no damage was done to the cupola. ON SULLIVAN’S ISLAND. The earthquake also extended to Sullivan’s Island and the convulsions there seem to have been almost exactly similar to those which shook the city. There was the same undulating motion and rapid succession of shocks and the whole Island was violently thaken. The houses rqcked from their founda tions, chinneys were thrown down and in most cases the contents of houses overthrown. All of the reports from the Island last night were to the effect that no one had been hurt, and that so far as could be ascertained no great damage has been done. The people ran out of their houses as soon as they could, and congregat ed out in the streets in excited groups. The steamer Sappho was on its way to the city when the earthquake oc curred,altliough the water was perfect ly smooth the shock was peefectly per ceptible to those on board. It seem ed as if some one l)ad hold of the ves sel and was jerking it violcnly back and forth. The vessel was not injur ed in any way, however, and came up to the city imraediatly after the shock After waiting at the y/hqtf a short time she went back to the Island. At half-past 12 o’clock the steamer returned to the city aud those on board reported that no one had been injured on the Islaqd. The following letter, written by a lady residing on the Island to a gen tleman in the city, was brought over from the Island last night, and will serve to give some idea of what was experienced there: “All safe and soqnd, though some what shaken. All the neighborhood has camped with us iu the fartherest corner of oqi yard. We are all heroes except those whp are heroines. We shall spend the night on Keenan’s piazza, because it is low down—that is near the terra—I had almost said term firma, but I refrain.”’ A passenger on the steamer Sappho which left the Island at 9.30,states that the earthquake was felt just as the steamer was rounding the last bouy ir. Hog Island Channel.. It felt he said, as if the steamer had run aground, so much so that the captain stopped the engine. There was no apparant disturbance of the water, but it seem ed as if the bottom had risen aud struck the hull of the steamer. FIRES. A large fire at the corner of Vander- horst and King streets started right after the earthquake shock and was burning fiercely for about two hours when at last three streams were di rected against it; but this being found unavailing, the tidal drains was open ed and another stream put on. At least ten houses were on fire, and all of them were completely burnt. The fire still advanced and 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. A serious fire broke out at thq south east corner of George and 8t. Philip . treets and two two-story houses, the one immediately on the corner aud the other th.e next house east of it, were completely destroy’ed. The cor ner house belonged to Lieut. Heidt, of the police force and the other was occupied by Miss Julia Wellington. The fire burned for about an hour be fore the arrival ot the fire engines such was the demand for them all over the city. Fortunately, however, there was very little wind blowing, and the neigboring houses, almost all of which are built of wood, were kept from catching by means of buckets water It was 11 o’clock before the first en gine arrived. A number of willing hands as-'isted the firemen iu stretch ing the hose, and with one stream of wateflhe lire was kept from spread ing utitil the arrival of another en gine a little later, when the fire was gradually subdued. The two-story wooden building at 4S7 Kirfe street, on the west side be tween A’anderhorst and Warren streets, End occupied by Schiadares- si Bros. a fruit store caught fire dur ing the Anvulsioti and was burned to the grou^l. > i . | The fire extended, before the arrival of the enjAnea, to the two-story wood en buildiLc on the north side, occu pied as a clothingstore by I. L, Mintz and the two-story brick tenement on the south side occupied by Dr. W. R. Bull, the dentist, and Mrs. E. Meyers. The two wooden buildings are said to belong to Mr. Simon Fass and are to tally destroyed. The brick build ings were 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 bo ascertained. One of the first fires that broke out was that which was caused by an over turned 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 the 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 Sta tion was seen a Cross, the emblem of Christianity, which shone with resplendent brightness. There never was a cross on the building as far as known, and the appearance of this one soon attracted attention as it stood out of the ruins. A policeman —it is needless to say he was an Irish man—pointed tq it, and said, as he un covered his head,“It is that that saved us.” The escape of the policemen who were apt op duty is certainly re markable. There were thirty men sleeping in the upper story' of the building, which’ together with the porch, is a complete wreck. TWO LATER SHOCKS. At five minutes before 1 o’clock the sixth shock was felt, and was followed ten minutes later by another much more severe. The last one shook The News and Coukif.r building perceptibly and died off in a tremor which lasted several seconds. THE COLUMBIA TRAIN OVERDUE. Tlwre was much anxiety concern ing the Columbia overdue train, which had not been heard from up to 1,30 o’clock this morning. The Au gusta train arrived on time, but the Columbia special was delayed and was about an hour behind time. It was feared that the violence of the shock was felt between Charleston and Summerville and that the train had been derailed. Owing, however, to the breaking of the wires and the falling of posts it was impossible to receive any information from along the line after 9.48 o’clock. NOTES AND INCIDENTS. Later advices are to the effect that the train reached Summerville safely and that the passengers were being cared for there. Nothing was learned however, to indicate the nature of the obstruction which prevpiffed the train from reaching Charleston. Bagging factory, Meeting street, one-third of the froqt vvaU gone. Geo. W. Williams, Jr., Atlantic street, parts of three walls fallen in. Mrs. Cheesborough’s hoqse, Church street, large pa^'t of front wall gone. Miss. M. A. Snowden, 15 Church street, forth story almost completely gone. Gen. Seigling’s residenco is not se rlously injured. One of the houses bordering on Lil- inthal’s lot, on King street, is about to fall; the walls are cracked and lean ing toward. The office of the Star is damaged by’ plastering failingfroin the upper floor, but the walls are intact. Part of the hardware store of Came ron & Barkley is down. The water around Line street is said to have been boiling. The front of the house of the Broth ers of the Sacred Heart is completely demolished. The stables of Jason Brown in Queen street was damaged by falling bricks, &c The stables of T. L. Bulow & Co., in Queen street, are completely ruined. No horses or carriages could be taken Hit. The stables of Fraser, in Chalmers street, are in the sanje condition, but most of his horses and carriages were at the Northeastern depot waiting for the excursion train. The Upper Stationhouse is qnly damaged by the falling of plaster. Very’ few^ouses in Spring and St. Philip streets are damaged on the out side,the only injury being to the plaster and chimneys. Mr. Henry Laurens stated last night that in his yard there were small fis sures visible of about three inches in width and several feet in length. A gentleman who was out on the ri ver’ just a few moments before the shock, saw the water bubbling up around the boat like a guvser. Another observer who was sitting on one of the benches at the Rntledge street lake, said that he distinctly heard a rushing sound,coming certain ly from the southwest, and that im mediately’ the shock was experienced. IN THE EARLY MORNING. Most of the fires in difiereut sections of the city were subdued by half-past 1 o’clock, save the one in King street, near Broad street, which continued to burn briskly. There was but one en gine available. Fortunately the water mains were not injured and there was an abundant supply of wafer, only the means of conducting it to the tire were wanting. There was no wind blowing from 1C P. M. until nearly 3 o'clock, by which time the fire had been got un der control and the danger of u disas trous canflagration spared to the night of horror. At that hour every park, square or vacant lot o the city was occupied by the people. I t is safe to say that the whole of Chariest ed the night out of cases shatte and the rid so tempered wind aud weather that A horse TO ckosm magarA. the frightened aqd bou-eless people j HUt<>py of H perform- were spared many discomforts and mm ^ ,..|-ve _ I many hardships. The dead were laid iu the open air, the wounded were provided with temporary pallets In the lawns or on the streets, and every one wait ed patiently for the coming dawn, which would at least lighten the hor rors of the occasion. THE VERY LATEST. At 3 o’clock this morning no nows had been reoeived frqm the second division of the train of South Carolina Railway', Hint should have readied here at 10 o’clock last night. All ef forts to secure connection by telegraph with any point outside of the city pro- ed futile, and nothing is known of the extent qf the shock. The fires near the corner of King and Broad streets and on the corner King and Warren streets are still burning, but the engines are still playing upon them and the fire department is using every effort to quench the flames. The warehouse in Exchange street is overthrown and the street pomplete? ly threaded with wires. The large warehouse at the corner of Gilland streets aud ^.tjautic wharf is down. The warehouse at the corner of East Bay and Elliott streets is demolished. ]VInrry iiig Drinking Men. Sumter Advance. Marrying men to reform them has never been a successful enterprise on the part of women. Girls are worth too much unmarried to sacrifice them selves to boat sense into the head of any man on God’s footstool. Such a man does not wean so easily as a calf. He will go hqiqe only to sober up, and then not till the other places are closed. A girl will marry such a man, hoping that on next year he will be better; but the next year he will he worse. There are sober hoys enough for all the girls; and there is no need for marrying a drunkard.—New York Sun. Last week, in our editorial columns we gave expression to an opinion on this subject, based upon our observa tion and upon what we have heard and read of. Since then we find in an exchange the above extract from the New York Sun, which gives substantially the same opi^ u as we did. From every source the testimony of history and experience points, with the most unerring exactness, in but one direction on this point. And all this vast accumulation of evidence proves beyond the semblance of a shadow of doubt that the business of marrying men to reform them is a failure. This is no mere idle fancy, but one of the saddest of truths. Will our girls take heed? In Lhls^ broad land to-day, how many women there be, the light of whose eyq&qLe gone, the fountain springs qf whose life are dried up, and over the dark portraits of whose hearts grim sorrow sits, while they are clothed in despair, because they married men to reform them aud have failed. These women —martyrs bear their grief in silence, as only women can, because upon the altar they have placed themselves, aud most fearful has been the sacri fice. We are pleading now for the high est and best uiterests of our Southern girls, and xvf say to them in all the earnestness of which we are capable, put no faith in that man who promises before marriage that he will reform. He will not do it. He may make a show of doing so for a time, but the chances are that after marriage he will be worse than before. Let no girl who values her own hap piness, marry a drinking man with the hope of reforming him, for dis appointment, sorrow and a broken heart will be her portion if she does. The girl who marries a drinking man may safely calculate on having a drinking, if not a drunken husband as long as they’ both shall live. These are words of truth. Will the girls be warned? Will they? aoces on a Tight-1 tope. Buffalo, August 22.—Adam Fore^ pnugh, Jr., a sou of the showman of that name, is planning to stretch m tight-rope across the Niqgufa riv®» below the falls aud seqd a trained horse “Blondln,” across the r|ve* chasm on the rope. Thomas H. Da vis. an agent of j^orepaugh’s, Said ton day: “It is true that Blondln is to make the attempt. We have beet} keeping it quiet, for we desire nothing said until we found out just how we could anchor the cable suflicieutly strong. Mr. Forepaugh first thought of it when he heard of the fellows passing through the whirlpool in their barrels. The show is In Peter* boro Out., and from there he telegraph ed me he had fiecided to make the at tempt on September 13, the day we come out of Canada and exhibit the show at Suspension Bridge. He wantq to see if Blondln can walk the rope. Tiie idea is to stretch a two or three inch steel cqb}e across the river, either on the brink of or a little below the falls. The wire will have to be wrapped with cotton cord so that Bloudiu’s rubber shoes will stick to it. “Whatkind of a horse Is Blondln?” “Blondln is a Morgan colt that Adam Forepaugh, Jr., bought near Westchester, Pa., three years ago. He was four years old last spring. He Is 14>£ hands IriKlb is compactly built and weighs 800 pounds. Mr. Fore*- paugh began training him at Phila delphia early hv-t fall to walk the rope At first the rope was p’aced only two feet from the ground, hut before tbe circus started out he could walk a 2X inch rope 30 feet long and 20 from the ground. He goes backward as well as forward, and has never yet had a fall. He has no fear of falling and I don’t think there is any doubt but what he will go over the Niagara (jliasm all right on a still -H® wears a patent rubber shoe and is very careful and surefooted. It will be a big expense, but we don’t cure about that, for it will be a big card for the show and a still bigger one for tho Madison Square Garden next winter if he does it. It is easier for a horse to walk a rope than a man afterhe knows how for he has morelegs to balance him self with. Animals are not credited with half the intelligence they possess. Blondln is of a miW and tractable dis position. I don’t think he will be afraid at all, but if he should be, Les lie, who does the slack wire anJ turns somersaults with boots and spurs on ■yirilj go with him.” lionring: Jim jn Maine. New York :cning Post (Mug.) When Mr. Blaine took the stumpto deliver ty|s statesmanlike speech on national issues, an impertinent pro hibitionists, who, like the dreadful Burehard, was a clergyman, arose in tiie audience and began to catechise him about prohibition, fairly’compell ing him to say that he was a prohibi tionist in Maine and something else in the nation at large. Then the whole prohibition p'ilvty. burst into a roar of laughter, and sent their lead ing speakers, one ahead of Blaine and The Illack Cabinet in Fance. Pall Mall Gazette. A work on the French postal service. just published ia Paris gives some cu-. rious details of the sinister iostitUliorr known as “Le Cabinet Noir.” Its ori gin dates as far back as Louis XL, who ( instituted it for the purpose of discovering the sporfet thoughts and 'doings of his subjects- Under Riche lieu tiie art of tiie rane^jilissemeut dea cachets, as it was then styled, was practiced qn a large scale. But it was not till the reign,of Loals XIV. that the famous Cabinet was officially created. Special employees were engaged to unseal the letters at the postortice and make known their contents to tl^e King. Under Louis XV. the institution was further devel oped. The high^t personages at court were subject to the indiscretions of the post. “It is of no use my seal ing my letters,” wrotp. the mother of the Regent; “they have fabricated a kind ofcompisition out of quicksilver andother substances which remove the wax, and when the letters are opened and copied they seal them up again so cleverly that nobody pan detect the trick.” It wqs by this means that the government discovered all the details *f the Cellamare conspiracy. The revolution abolished the Cabi net, and enacted severe penalties against tampering with letters; hut the system was revived by Nepoleou 1., who made extensive applications of it. It continued under tho iiestor- alion, as the Due de Broglie shows In his “Souvenirs.” During the reign of Nepoleou III. it was reorganized on a more comprehensive plan, and a sum of 600,000 franca a'year was devoted to it out pf the secret service grants. Twenty-two euiplnyyg^n^^uuttanl ly engaged in M ters. Sinqe tlft pi re tho Cabil exist. An Errpe The follqw|ug - - . - - Press and Ban one just behind him, to nag and wor j pa ry him throughout his tour of the State. He has’changed his route, ail’d they have chan-ed theirs to suit'it, and tho fun is growing with every step of progress. The situation is a very trying one for Mr. Blaine, but the audacity of tiie prohibition lead ers shows the new spirit which has come over their party. They can no longe:|be scared b:ipk into the Re publican party’ by having held up be fore them pictures of tiie total deprav ity of the Democratic party. . Newberry Herald: Mr. Tillman said at Abbeville that he would not stoop so low as to mingle with tiie cor rupt crew, that had filled the offices at Columbia since 1876, unless lie w as forced to go there as a representative from Edgefield, and in his^a^t letter to the News and Courier lie calls the farmers who have been iu the Legis lature tools and puppets, and we are id that he called the lawyers thieves Newberry; if this was true we certainly be in a deplorable but we believe tl ere are her who believe that Mr. istaken—that he ia de- r* only. J?"' ',*• i Cl Editor] I see anotioef my exchan^ me as I the Press i to Senator) in Waslii meeting of the I have not the pleasure with the Press and Banner, I I the paragraph recently. Yon say: “One of our parly,not will ing to go home without spesking to him (Senator Hampton} scut up his card. The Senator Jn reply iold tho servant to tell himthat he (Hampton^ was not in tiie room?” The latter paiDigraph must he a mis take. After I seiil upmy card 1 walt- ei in the lobby. When the rervunt returned he informed me that tho Senator was not quite dressod and would be down in a few uiiniUea. After a short time Senator Hampton did come down, and { exchanged % few words with him. These are the facts of I - Very respectful F. ! M i '.Trip* - m m