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PH4RI4E3 H ' u * WliAVKOV. Kdttor. j AIKEN, S- C.. SEPTEMBER 7. Hatwcripcfou Rates.—One year, •ix months, 4:1.00. If |>aul In 'avanoe, oBe ear, %1.&Q; six months. 75 cents. AitvorUsinjj Kate*.—One square, first rtton. fl.OQ: each subsequent insertion, ‘ Obttut • Tut was visrtctK which caused family l Rl eveu- Uje: ijy priva:<- ^orn'tyance from Au- guot... It was troly a rrarnculmisl 1 Escape; no pari of the track was left j for a mile each way except the rails upon which the three cars stood. ►The break has since been repaired, tut a horrible keneh emanates from V roceire attention. Kejceted coiniituiiicn , , , . . - tions will not be retmi.ci unless stumps f..r overturned, the agonizing screams of return poslaite are enclosed. ; women and childron rent tl»e air and ! atrong men were inspired with un- Oup Duty. speakable awe at tliis mysterious Charleston,tho dear old “City by the find stupendous demonstration of the Pea,” around whoso lofty spires and power of the Almighty. People rush- hoepltablehomescluster so ninny hal- ed frantically into the streets and ^otoed memories of the past, the home many remained there all night fear-! swamp. THR F. IHTH^UAKK AT IjAN'GI>KY. r»f eustMsf', the to violent earthquake strongest buildings | to rock and jar in s<i terrible a manner i that it seemed as if ruin and dost rue- j the swan 'P at . tht ‘ l lo5at w ' here the<Us - cents. Obttuar.os at reguldr rates of ad-j tion WRS at hand. Tlie Town clock j aster oCCl,rre<j occasioned, we suppose llnK • Un-oelr ,00. Mow nI,o thim «»or.ne t ‘'J’ tlle korses that perished in the To Correspondent*.-AH comnmnica-1 struck ont b,ow a “' 1 th< n »»”PPed, 1 tiyns rrtiist he aoc«>mpanic 1 5»y the trne ! the church bells tolled, lurniture was haute and ad<lrc4s of the writer'in order lc thrown violently about, lamps were ica-1 . , , . . , - f overturned, the agonizing screams of Terrible Catastrophe — Iiangley and j Hath Hams Broken—Railroad Trsvin t AVreeked an<l the 1’ireman Killed. The earthquake was felt at Langley with equal foice to that experienced at Aiken, and the population of the pretty little manufacturing town ter- of a people who are bone of our bone j U g to trust the protecting walls of rlfled and excited - ‘ Soon afljr t,,e amt flesh of our flesh, renowned their own homes, Few ventured to throughout this broad land, and even retire to their beds that night and the across tha broad Allantio for, their re* fined and generous hospitality and fhelr liberality to every cry of human effect of the repeated shocks were plainly perceptablo on Wednesday morning upon the w’euried faces of distress, is crumbling in ruins from ; many whose nervous system had been the visitation of amighty earthquake. | under severe tension during the earth Sons of grand old Mouth Carolina ^ ijj ro ^j,j,,g S (> f tj, e previous night, find citizens of the loyal and beautiful i Tl)e {} rst .shock was followed by two Ipown of Aiken, remember your birth- j others in rapid succession which only ylght as Carolinians, and rise nobly to i licrease d t i, e general alarm, and by 8 the discharge of that duty which, in the sight of God and man, you owe in tjie presence of an awful calamity to the stricken inhabitants of 'our once beautiful metropolis. Let us contri- o’cloek Wednesday morning no less than fourteen shocks varying in pow er and duration had been felt. THE COLOKED PEOPLE. The terror of the colored people was bute liberally of our means to assist beyond desciption. Their prayers In the material comfort of our fellow- citizens, whose houses are in ruins, and who, with their wives and little ones, are now camping in the open air exposed to all the dangers and dis comforts of the equinoctial season. Everyone should give iu accordance ^o those means with which God has blessed him, whether it be much or littlo. Let no hand be withheld, lest in tho day of woe, and suffering, and j calamity, lie receive the same measure of unpitying indiflerenco which he meets to others. Charleston iu the midst of rujn and ashes, watered by the blood of her citizens, slaiu^n the jireat disaster, utters no wail of de spair, but our manhood as Carolinians and our duty as Christian men and women point to those same ruins, and urge us to dp our duty In binding up those wounds which the power and jnajesty of an Eternal God has seen proper to inflict. Let there be no lag gards in the good work. Let us not have to blush with down-cast eyes for tho pitifulness of our citizenship, but rather let the good work be so con ducted, that when the contributions from Aiken are forwarded, our hearts will throb with pride at the conscious ness of duty well performed, and fhankfulness that our lot is cast among a generous and high-miqded fjhristian people. The Langley .Disaster. The citizens of our neighboring manufacturing town of Langley have peep thrown out of employment by the breaking of the mill dam, and gome hardship may be encountered during the suspension of work. The repairs to the dam will probably engage the services of everv male citi zen, but the women and children will be without occupation until the re pairs are complete. We hope how ever that the repairs will bo finished as speedily as possible, and that the pannufacturing Company will make such liberal provision in regaid to pints and other kindred matters as will alleviate the hardship of the situ ation. Four-hundred or more people thrown out of work without a mo ments warning is serious matter and we feel confident that if a proper rep resentation of the situation is made in an authoritative way our citizens will not be backward in contributing to the reljefof those in need of aid. The Recorder can b^ relied on to pro mote in every proper way any steps looking to this end. \Ve are sorry to learn that the col- pred people iu Charleston continue to behave in so boisterous a manner, un der the guise of devotional exercises, that it la simply unbearable. Their barbarous orgies unnerve the ladies and children, depriving them of much needed rest, doing actually more dam age in a moral sense than the earth quake. The authorities have been invoked to interfere and in the event ~ their failure to arrest the nuisance spshvill be taken by tho citizens to take the law in their own hands. We are happy to add that since the first shock on Tuesday night the colored people of Aiken have behaved in the most orderly manner, and we hope for their own credit that they will con tinue the same course of conduct. % The Hon. W. A Courtenay returned yesterday to Charleston. He is the for of the city, but has been ab- lt for some time on an European ^conseqence of ill health. His executive abilities will be a strength to the old City iu Lune. Lie is n man return shouts and frantic cries could he heard ail over the town. Two of the colored churches were filled with worshipers! at the time and many of the people j jumped from the windows, while 1 others fell to tho floor iu convulsions j of fright. Each shock was proceeded by a vio- | lent rushing sound which distinctly foretold by a second or more the coin- first three shocks large crowds as sembled at the depot to hear the news from the incoming train from Charles ton due at Aiken at 9.30 P. M. The train left Aiken on time, and just as it hove in sight of the Lang ley depot, the broad and apparently solid embankment of the extensive pond gave wav and washed crossties and iron from the road-bed, covering the track more than four feet in wa ter. On rushed the train, tin* engineer unconscious of impending danger, un til too late to avert the catastrophe. The engine tender and baggage car were swept from ihe track.a.id now lie ditched on the south side of the track where more than eight feet of water covered the ground at the time of the disaster. Engineer I.ri '-ondcn was badly hurt and barely escaped with his life, and Fireman ivie, (a colored man), was buried under the wreck and killed. Conductor Kennedy after many trials obtained an engine from Gran- iU-viiie, and brought the passenger r in 1 ing earthquake. INCIDENTS. The back and front of the elegant | eMK ' nctl " ai i was tenderly eared for until he could — i •' j bo sent to his family •is;i 10 th ch containing several passengers safety to Aiken. The wounded brought to Aiken, and new Croft Block, built of brick, dam aged. The drug store of Messrs. J. \Y Platt & Co and Mr. H. H. Hall had a | reVl ‘ a,s extensive damage from the ' d Jimri t-*e Langley pond, which will involve the expenditure of probably ten thouHand dollar-: to replace. This I H. Beckman on Laurens street, occupied) is badly cracked in the west SCClit <!« in Charleston. 1 of the disaster to both number of bottles thrown shelves and destroyed. The two-story brick store of Mr. J. (un- !kincoilabie, as it involves tho stop page of the mill, and loss of employ ment to more than four hundred and north wall and requires attention. Several chimney tops were broken otFand several will have to be entire ly rebuilt. The destruction of window glass was considerable, but by no means as gn at as might have been expected. The residence of Dr. II. H. Wy man narrowly escaped fire by the overturning of a kerosene lamp iu the second story. The presence of mind of the doctor saved a conflagration. Taking ail in all tho people of Ai ken have reason to feel profoundly grateful to a Merciful Providence for tho lightness of the injury sustained by property and the total exemption from loss of life. Business is progressing as usual though the frequency of the shocks have told visibly upon the nervtes of our people. Up to this writing no shocks have been felt since 11 o’clock Sunday night. THE HOUSE CHEEK TRAGEDY. people. Tho town of Langley was badly shaken, but beyond tho lix-s of the mill dams no material loss of property and no loss of life is reposed. Another Train AY recked by the Rush ing AVaters—Thrilling Experienceol' the Passengers—Hon. 1>. S. Hender son Hud Family Aboard—Narrow Escape from Drowning. The train which left Augusta at 10.35 P. M. on Tuesday, August 31st, was as usual a long freight train with bag gage car, first-class passenger coach and sleeping car attached. Conductor Hpeisseger was in charge, and about twenty-five passengers were aboard, among them the Hon. D. S. Hender son and lady, with two children, Mr. St. Julian Yates, of Aiken, a daughter of Dr. Geo. Schaub, of Bath, and Capt. John Clark, of Augusta. Two of the freight cars were laden with horses. The train reached Horse Creek bridge iu safety travelling at the rate of twelve to fifteen miles an hour. Just after crossing the bridge Mr. John Reynolds, the engineer, ob served a curveiu the track ahead, and knowing that none ought to beat that point, promptly reversed his engine, hut it was all too late, for the raging Hood of waters, five feet high, from Bath and Langley ponds, the dams of both having broken, came surging down obliquely, striking the engine and train with tremendous force on its northern broadside, sweeping everything from the track except the baggage car, first-class coach and sleeper. The Charleston News & Courier of Tuesday 7th say: “The most cheer ful indication tlu\t life is returning to the old City is the gradual resumption of business.” A brave people can al ways overcome misfortune, and the peojde of Charleston are as brave as they are generous. — —^.yaj.1 The oustretched hand of noble gen erosity is turned to Charleston from every quarter of our common country. The crushing blow of misfortune opens the well springs of the human heart and makes us feel as if we were all of one kindred. Scientific men are at the scone of the late earthquake, trying to aecount for the disturbance. Our space will not permit a reference to their theories, but in our next issue we will give the result of their investigations. THE RUIN OF THE CITY. Col. Bats.-lielder ot the United States Army Thinks it Has Been tifiider- esttmated. Neiva and Courier, Sept. 6/A Col. Batchelder, of the quartermas ter department of the United (States Army, arrived in the city yesterday morning, on a special mission. He was seen by a Reporter for The News ami Couirer at the Charleston Hotel and asked if he bad come for the pur pose of investigating the stability of buildings in Charleston. He replied in the negative, saying that that du ty had been imposed upon officers of the engineer corps, who would prob- abii' arrived last night or this mor ning, “Is then your visit entirely unoffi cial in its nature, Colonel?” asked the Reporter. “No, sir 1 ” replied Col. Batchelder. “Tho fact is there is a great deal of skepticism in the North as to the ex tent qf the disaster here. People were unwilling to believe that the ac counts sent from here of the havoc wrought by ihe earthquake, were not greatly exaggerated’ and it is wiih a viow of reporting upon the cor rect i'lie scene as described to us by 1 ness of these reports that I was sent Mr. Henderson was terrible in the extreme. Adam Simmons, the fire man, was killed, but Mr. John Rey nolds, the engineer, was rescued from the wreck, and brought bleeding and helpless into one of the cars remain ing on the track, where he received the most thoughtful attentions from the sympathetic passengers. The snorting and frantic neighing of the horses that had been hurled into the flood of waters contributed to ip^ crease the agony and terror of tITis midnight tragedy in no suwfTtlcgrec. But, worse than all, R- was soon dis covered that Urg^Taters were surely and sapijBj^rising, aD d all on boajj^Jitgfit be drowned at any mo- ■ffient. The waters continued to rise until they reached the platform and actually commenced flooding the car, here.” “Well, do you think, Colonel, that there has been .uiy exaggeration?” “I do not think so. Indeed, I feel that the calamity is even greater than it has been represented in the press account.” “What Is your impression as to the ruin of the city?” was asked. “I have seen enough to say that it is wide spread. The eastern por tion of the city has undoubtedly suf fered most seriously, and I think there is scarcely a house but will have to be pulled down.” “Why is it, Col.’ that not more tents were sent here to shelter our homeless people?” next asked the Re porter. “All the tents were sent tii.it were available, was the re- when, just at two o’clock, under God’s ' pl3 T . The Eastern department of the urgently request that all ^mounts collected and forwarded to .Charleston sufferers, from any source in Aiken County, be promptly report ed at this office so that a proper re cord may be made of the same. It would be a graceful, generous and Cliristiau act if every church in Merciful Providence, the waters com menced to fall, indicating that the ponds were empty, and asigh of relief '•Aras breathed by tiie endangered pas sengers. who realized tflatat last they might reasonably hope to escape a horrible death in the darkness of the night amid the hideous surroundings of a swamp. Messrs. Henderson, Clark and Yates, nobly exerted tkem- g Ives to cheer and comfort the ladies and children, and two colored men, tion for the sufferers, at Charleston and Summerville. ken County would take up a collcc- Allen Mays and Thomas McHan, of Aiken, were especially brave, atten tive and useful. List .very one attend the meeting 1 " th T e morning Captain I.ltlle, the called for 6 o'efoct ot, Wclnclaj i Tra,u fron. Augusta, wul, evening, nnd come prepared to in-1»" ‘‘i' 1 carB ' *“ d Mr ', crenae theamounl already collected to , P owe * »"<> '>'* * nd ■■e.ghber. relieve the Charleston suflerer.*. j came to the rescue. A rough bridgt- j of poles and boards was soon thrown The citizens of Charleston are ‘ over Horse Creek, and after a walk of camped out In the public squama and »a mile the relief train was reached church-3 aids. ! and the passengers t.„keir to Au- quartermaster’s department is at Philadelphia, and all the tents that were available there were sent. B3* far the larger pa rt of tents are stored iu the Western depots and none have 1 been ordered from there, as it was j supposed that before they could be! brought to this city the emergenc3’ | that called for their use would have passed.” Fxae Million Dollars Damage. The city appraiser, who has gone over the whole cit3' and is familiar with the value of property, estimates that it will cost at least $5,000’00Q to put Charleston iu as good a position as that which it occupied onty a week ago. Buildings which were consider ed entirely safe are now discovered to be dangerous, aud persons who thought that t out by t Thrilling Scenes nnd Incidents— Doistero'.is Conduct cf the Negroes. Xeiva and Courier, Friday Sipt. Zrd. It seemed an eternit3'of night to the frightened and horror-stricken woman and children who had rushed from the houses to the open spaces t»>avoid falling walls and tottering roofs. But the dawn at Icng'h came and with it came hopes of life and longing to re turn to their ruined hearths and homes. One by one and in groups the fugitives, half clad, i icked up their blankets and utensils aud went to their homes, only, however, to find ruin and desolation. Many of them went to work with what heart they could to clean up things and to bring order out of chaos. Others hastity dressed themselves and returned to theopen air'or sa ety,dreadinganother quake. Those who essayed to remain indoors did not persevere long. Ex- actR- at 8:25 a ni.oame another of the dreadful premonitory groans which betokened the approach of another wave. The writer stood at the inter section of Broad and Church streets, looking down Church street. In the distance, and before the wave came, lie could nee men and women rushing into the centre of the street, the tops of the trees on the street were seen to move and nod as if moved 113- a gale, the low rumbling sound approached nearer aud, gathering volume as it approached, went quivering past in a northwesterly direction with a decid ed swell or quiver of the earth. The motion was not violent as on the pre vious night, but slow and quivering, reminding tho.-e who have been at sea of the ground swell nipped and shiv ered l<3’ a passing gipsi of wind. It hardly lasted three seconds and ap peared to die off in the direction of the northwest. After this the whole offy once more took to the open and the public parks and squares and vacant lots,as well as the street corners, were soon occupied b3 T men, women and chihl.ien. The sun had come out very warm, but for tunately itsra3's were tempered b3’ a cool brisk breeze which sprang up Cf over. their'sfclpossession. No one who did not 1 uolv particularly into the matter could realize the vast amount of debris in the suape of stones,brick, w ood work , and mortar which fell in the fatal shower ilf Tucsda3‘ night. There ivas no disposition among the people ti* move the debris except in cases wlutre ingress and egress to par ticular residences were effectually barred. Iki such Chses the piles of scattered iiiaterial were cleared away and emptied out iu the street. There was no effort made by the street de partment t'4 clear off the pavements. It was thought not advisable to do so until further developments. Some action will ilrobabR’ be taken to-da3', although it IVj.not improbable that the firsttliiiigdoize willbethc appointment or selection fpf a commission to con demn such hotusos as are ruined and iu which people might be tempted to remain at am’ risk. * Sucli houses when condetlined will be torn down. o of all the sailors and were aboard of any b<, r or alongshore was md fear-inspiring as that which was fLlt iu the cit3 T . The general description of the effect of the earthquake on th® vessels is that the craft of all kind wlere tossed about at the mercy of the waves and that the shock gave to persons on board the sensation that the! boats were being swept over rock^ or were being stranded. All the campinjk grounds in the cit3’, sucli as the Washington Square Park, Marion Square, the College {jpmpus, Aiken Palrk, the Battery, the Lake, the park it the corner of Wentworth and Meeuing streets and others, continued to lie filled during the day. More tents were added 3 - es- terday at all the places! mentioned. It may be stated that the reelings of the people were much easier 3’esterday, and .u many cases the3’Were laughing and miking pleasantly aao it theirex- periences of Tuesday nlgfit. The scene at the Citadl l Green was picturesque in the extreme. Most of the tents, in all manner c*f colors, had The experiem passengers wild vessel in the lia^ not so terrible been erected on the south! of the square, along the Calhoun Street line. There were, however,numbars of them on all sides except that boVinded by the Citadel. The tents wereunade out ibout da3’light, and which blew stead- -of sheets, blankets, carpets, I clothing ily from the cast. Later in the fore noon friendly clouds hid the sun’s rays and added as much as possible to the Comfort of the wretched picnioker^. Tents of bed sheets and awnings were improvised for (ho sick and umbrellas were brought out and pressed into ser vice. A silly and malicious fool in Broad street started the report about 9 o’clock that the signal bureau had predicted another shock at 11 o’clock, and had the satisfaction of causing in expressible pain and anguish to the hundreds of frightened women and children who heard this report. Here follows a long list of damaged buildings which we exclude for more important matter. Suffice it to say that hardly a brick building is unin jured, and it is thought that most of them will be unfit for future use. The saddest wrecks of all are St. Michael’s and St. Phillip’s Churches with their loft3 T steeples. Both are ii) a danger ous condition. OUT IN THE STREETS. On Wednesday night the old scenes of fright and fear were enacted in the public squares and parks. Frail wo men some ot them almost dead, nnd infants in arms were driven to the ne cessity of spending the night in the open air with only such covering as could be improvised by the use of blankets, shawls and sheets. In many of the squares, notably at Washington Park, the fright and annoyance to these people were enhanced by the ex cruciating religious performances of the colored people who crowded the parks. In AVashington Park these were led by two negro men with stentorian voices who howled, and shouted, and yelled, and shrieked, until long after 1 o’clock iu the morning. They were asked to desist, or at least to conduct the services in a less boisterous man ner, but refused to do so. A re monstrance on the part of some gen tlemen produced ver3 r insolent replies on the part of a number of negro roughs who shared in the conduct of the meeting, and who loudly and bois terously protested that they would make as much noise as they pleased, and that 110 interruption would be al lowed. Major Frost, the chief of po lice, had been asked early in the even ing to place a man on 111113' in the park, and to keep as much order as possible. A policeman was stationed there early in the evening, but ap parently without efiect. Final I3' about 2 o’clock, when everybody was worn out, an appeal was made to the officer on duty at the Stationhouse, at whose command the two “shepperds” desisted. The night wore on slowly and pain fully. At 11.50 p. 111. a heavy earth wave passed through the city. Its coming was presaged b3 r quite a num ber of explosions dim and distant, and which commenced to be heard fully five minutes befor 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. ni., and as it pass ed by to the northwest there followed aounds which indicated falling walls or buildings. This was the first vibration on Wed- nesda3’ night. Soon after it had pass ed a man appeared and advised the people to go to their houses, stating that he was the only scientific man in the city, and that he was the authori ty for the statement that there would be no 11101 e shocks. This advice was unheeded, very few people leaving the ground. At da3’break there was a movement, aud, as the sun rose and there had been no additional vibra tions, many of the people pulled up their tents aud departed to their shat tered homes, in the earnest hope that they had participated in their last picnic in the park. AFTER THE SHOCK. An AI tempi to Clear off the Dcprln— Camping in the Parks—The Fright of the Colored People. , wa* only yesterday after midday, .the cessation of shocks gave gable end of the house was thrown : degrees. Thru there was a reflex iu*- and fell upon them, burying aii of tion, and the train righted and was them in the ruins. All of them were . hurled with a roar as of a discharge of fearfully crushed. Some time after j artillery over to the west, and filially the accident Joe Cole dug the corpses j subsided on tbi# track and took a out of the ruins. They were buried plunge downward, evidently the de- 3*esterday. | scendiug wave. The engineer, Mr. At the same time John Cook, col- Keys, put down tho brakes tight, but ored, while passing the corner of so great was the original and added Friend and Tradd streets,was crushed j momentum that the train kept right by a falling wall. He Resided at 110[ahead. It is said on trustworthy au- Tradd street and was buried 3-esterday. | thority that the train actually gallop- led along the track, the front and rear trucks and rear of the coaches rising and whatever else could be impressed Into the service to keep off like ra3*s off the sun by da3'andthe dew] at night. There were some people who Amoved to the Green from a distance, Vuu! they brought with them their Icooking utensils and camped as if tol remain until the last vestige of the dagger had disappeared. Many of the poorer pcoplel rolled barrels to the square and usein them in lieu of.tents. The 3'ard without a tent, where there was a large firmly, was the exception to the rule. Whole families could at an3 7 time be\ seen cosily ensconced beneath some Jawn- ing or tent under which refu been taken from the chances other shock of a severe charac / The white people as a goner were evidently impressed wit very serious nature of the sit and spoke of it as became the Irons visitation. The children, were old enough to realize what going on, and even those who only form some shapeless fore of coming events, were in extre terror, and would nervously cling t their parent’s hands and sob and weep most piteously. This adde much to the confusion of the moments’ at which shocks were felt at' each of which people would spring to their feet with the expectation of tho mo ment being their last. The colored people were complete^’ unnerved aud unstrung. They pros trated themselves on their faces in prayer aloud to God to avert the total destruction that they anticipated. They pniyed and laughed in their frenzy of despair in turns. On Wed nesday night the scenes of Tuesda3' night were repeated. They held pra3’er meetings, at which volunteer ministers gave out hymns and exhort ed, just after the fashion of camp meet ing services. There was scarcely one of them that slept during any night since the first great shock. To say that the colored people were demoruliz ed would convey the idea but feebR’. They were like animals paraR'zed and shivering wiih dread terror. On the streets yesterda3' there was very little sign of a return to business. Only such shop:- as bakeries, pharma cies aud other absolutely necessar3' places remained open. The proprie tors of the stores, in common with the rest of the curious citizens, wandered up and down the streets all da3' look ing at the scenes ’of desolation and destruction. CRUSHED ON HIS DOOR STEP. Mr. M. J. Lynch, who was killed on Tucsda3' night, and who was reported in the News and Courier of Wendes- day as fatal^' injured died before mid night. The old gentleman who lived in the large stone front building two doors south of Market street started to escape through the front door. As his feeble footstep crossed the threshold a solid piece of sandstone which con stituted the coping fell upon him crushing him to the earth and pinning him there across the waist. The sit uation was discovered by several gen tleman soon after the accident and with great trouble he was released from his painful imprisonment, only to die, however, a few hours after wards. The onR- exit from the upper part of the building was blocked with debris and eight females were handed down and out through the front win dows on the second story. bTRIED UNDER ONE WALL. The difficulty of getting at the list of the dead and injured will be under stood when it is stated that it was not until yesterday that the death of three persons, all of whom were killed on the pame spot and at the same time, waq made known to a Reporter, Th^se w’ere Aleck Miller, of 97 King strfet, Grace Fleming, of 90 King street, and Joe Rodoif, who Jived in King street, opposite YVeinj’g pourt. were colored persons, '{flip scene lie accident was at 10Q King street, arge two-story brick house, ver3' and dilapidated. * The three vic- 18 were passing the place on Tues- y nigiit wheq the shock came. The THE EARTHQUAKE OUT OF THE CITY. * # Scenes on the Outskirts of the Town —Queer Eruptive Evidence*—The Qtmkc m Summerville—A Railroad Train in an Earthquake. Xctvs and Courier, Friday Sept 3d. On Wednesday morning a reporter for the News and Courier, owing to the very flight' colored accounts that were current of a great loss of life in the section of County' between Char leston and Summerville, set out at 10 o’clock to investigate the rumors. The real indications of the earthquake beyond the city were found at Disher’s farm, not far from the carriage road. There the appearances were that there had been an eruption all over the farm These indications were in the na ture of extensive mounds of clay which had evidently been thrown up h3 r some violent subterranean convul sion. The hillocks of sand were in most cases in the shape of inverted cones, the hollow part of w’hich had evidently been formed by the action of the water returning into the depths from which it had been raised. These indications were not, however, en tirety of the shape just mentioned. In many, in fact; in a majorit3 r of cases, the erupted matter had stream ed away from the breaks iu the sur face of the earth to a distance of from twenty to fifty feet. In other places there were fissurvs almost iuvariabty extending from the north to south. These cracks were not wide and .ex tended downward alsva3 T s in a slanting direction. It was, therefore imposible to see to the bottom of any of them. The matter that was thrown up was a dull dark, shuy color and mixed with gravel. There was also a little shale, and in general the mud resembled that which is thrown up from the bottom of the phosphate pits along the rivers. The water in some placed had the taste of our Artesian water, but in many instances it was just as clear and limpid as from a mountain spring These evidences of the great convul sions were not sporadic. They ex tended far and near in every direction from the ci<3' limits of Charleston to Summerville, and at the latter place it was found, from trustworthy in formation, that the cracks and fissures were everywhere visible for miles and miles around. Strangely enough, some of these were in active operation and the constant shocks that were felt at Summerville seut the water out of these fissures iu jets to the height of from fifteen to-twenty feet This was evidentty thp result of the cracks being filled with water and then the sides opening and collapsing by each succeeding shock. These ap- paranees were, of course, suggestive still more violerjJL eruptions, and re )y«|f " -*<(nfttant-4read every- that there would b^S - geieral ^lon caused by some extiuoi- lifafee of the earthquake. Tot as tl^e water emitted in the bw s where' ! |idMiiaiata4il&_exi>ect> j to exist all the of the highest elevation the mu be seen. This latter fact indicated that the force was being exerted at rather more than the depth that as at first thought to be the limit of the force. * Just below the Ten-Mile Hill, the rst indication of many the railwa3’ isasters. of the fatal night was visit- e'd. The engine, tender, and cab of the train that left Charleston on Tues day night at 9.34 o’clock were in the ditch. The engineer Burns, and his fireman Arnold, colored, had been badty injured by the tremendous leap which the train took in the dark un der the unseen influence of the shock that dismantled Charleston. It is said that the earth suddenly gave way, and that the engine first plunged down the temporary declivi ty. It was then raised on the top of the succeeding terrestrial undula tion, and having reached the top of the wave a sudden swerving of the force to the right and left hurled the ill-fat- e 1 train down the embankment. How it was done was plainly indicat ed in many places along the track of the South Carolina and North East ern Railways. For spaces of several hundred yards the dreadful energ3' of the earthquake was exhibited in two particular \va3’s. First there were intervals of a hun dred 3'ards and more in which the track had the appearance of having been alternatety raised and depressed like aline of waves frozen in their last position. The second indication was where the force had oscilated from east to west, bending the rails into reverse curves, most of them taking the shape of a single, and others of a double letter “8,” placed longitudinally. These latter accidents occured almost invariably at trestles and at culverts. There were no less than five of them between the 8eveu- Mile Junction and Jedburg. In other places the track had the apperance of being kinked for miles and miles, but alwa3's in these cases in tiie direc tion of the rails. and falling alternately. Tiie utmost confusion prevailed. Women and children shrieked with dismay aud i;he bravest heart quailed in moment ary expectation of a more terrible ca tastrophe. The Rev. Ellison Capers chanced to be on board, and lie lost no time iu conveying as best lie could in the agony of the moment the best ad vice and consolation lie could ofler. The train was then taken back in the direction of Jedburg, aud on the way back the work of tiie earthquake was terribly patent. The train had act- ualty passed over one of these serpen tine curves already described, and it is tho simple truth to state that every soul on board was saved solely through the interpoution of a Divine Provi dence. The train then proceeded towards Summerville, aud when within a mile of it was warned of the impending danger^ the explosion of torpedoes that had been placed by Col. Averill. At this latter place the traeiqh id been fearfully wrenched and twisted into reverse curves, and a similar acci dent occurred simultaneously at the trestle just north of Liucolaville. The passengers all requ sted to be taken back up the track, and the train was again run up to Jedburg, where it remained until Wednesday evening, when it was brought toMu umerville.Jlt stayed there until 7.20 p. in., when it started for Charleston, all the passen gers arriving safelv in the city about half-past 9 o’clock, after some terrible experience. At Hummerville the scenes were such as it is impossible to adequately describe. All the stores were closed and the few people who where on the streets wandered about in an aimless way not knowing what next to ex pect. All tiie inhabitants had aban doned their houses after the stroke on Tuesday night, but few of them had the temerity to return. Tuesday night the shock was said to be more violent than in Charleston. But the general characteristics were, of course the same. In Summerville, however, the peo ple rushed out affrighted into an inky black darkness and in the general gloom and despair the wailing of the women, the shrieks of the children and the frightened voices of the men made up a scene and sounds that were equally distressing and appalling. As in Charleston, all through the night there was nothing but sickness and sorrow and guttering, and the constant dread of final disolution aud utter annihilation. When morning dawned the ruin and devastation were found to be com plete. There was not a home that had not beien made desolate iu greater or less degree. All the chimuc3’s had disappeared. Walls- were rent in t wain, ceilings had fallen, and in nu the houses that rested ocks or masonry were grqund. Other houses to bottom and left the buildings jycre hurlec weiti those of C. ^ it, Mr3- B. F. TigheJ L. De^reviHe, E. J. Limehousc Percy GueraUj. ji on p e rry, the “Net ties house,” 4ud that of Mr, Ed. Fish- burne. f At the Nettles house two colored people, ThoiAas Ellis and John Allen, were killed! by the falling ruins. These were tl ie only casualties report ed in Summerville up to last night. f the situation in Sum- ednesday was much in- certaiu manifestations observed in Charleston tent. he day there was a con- detonations, now east, d from all possible di* sembled the discharge at intervals of about nl was like ihe sounds cut at a great distance e y l“ Aosions wee Teat-' Ordered to bo ForwriV .Sufferers From the K:\rthquil Washington, September 2.-J R. C. Drum, the acting secrets , war, has issued a special order ^ ing that awihible tents be for immediately to Charleston aucj ty for the relief of sufferers L i earthquake. The acting sccrtfl ' the TreasUi'3' has placed revel ters at the disposal of tlie^v inent to facilitate the of tents in the event o munication being cut off. funds have i>een started in eminent departments and thi the city generalty. Comf Trenholm received several mo| coutribu thins this morning promptly telegraphed to sutt'eo Charleston. The horror j merville on\i tensified by that were not| to any great 1 All during stant scries ol now west, ai] rections. It r< of heavy gund ten minutes, al of a bombardnl All of these The ol the Gai-tUquaice. News and Courier, There can be no doubt that the vai ous earthquake shocks we have experj enced had their origiu in the Islam of the Mediterranean and in G and Italy. In The Sunday News August 29 was reported the ocourrem of a destructive earthquake througl out Greece and Italy, and also thal there had been two eruptions of Vesu vius’ aud that tho volcano was very active. These eruptions vent to the internal commotion w had produced the quaking of earth iu that vicinity, but the s! being communicated to the ear have traveled iu various direction: some with more violence than others, as they were felt the same d throughout Egypt’ but doing llti damage. The shocks seem to hav] extended westward with more rapi ty aud violence than in any other di tion, the vibrations of the particles the earth’s surface being trausmltb under the sen at the rate of about o: hundred miles an Tiour, occupying about seventy-two hours in travel a distance of 6,500 miles befi reaching the western shores of Atlantic. Travelling as it did, ala* due west, one of the first points on shore line which It could reach the coast of South Carolina. But see that it was felt along the en cost as far north as Bos spend across the contincnt~with di minishing force as the various more solid and rocky portions of the surface crust retarded the vibrations, until i( seems to have been almost entirely stopped by friction in the extremi Nortliwestern States. The reason why the shocks we more violent in the vicinity Charleston and- Summerville is th there is more of a soft, yield! nature in the superficial upper stra which conducted the vibrations, am the foward movements of the earth waves, meeting with less resistance hero than from the hard substance father in the interior, were more r ipid aud jerky, aud shook the sur* face with more violence. The pres ence of tiie innumerable fissures ob servable in the city, aud in the country as far as Summerville and beyond, is acAmnted for by this sanxe — soft material yielding readify to the earth waves’ which pushed up the ihiu crust and squeezed out, as it were* the water and sand subject to the pres, sure. The blue sand and the yellow^ sand thus ejected are found iu the up* per strata, and that it came from near the surface is proven by the fact no marl is found in it, and that begit alpfroin 60 to 90 feet below the surf* anti extends to nearly 1,100 feet d To show still more conclusively the wave motions were confined to a limited depth beneath i t«<ir* faceTTtSik, C nty necessary to stale that none of tho ^SiiJhjwor four hundred feet Artesian weTlslf nor is there any change noticeable the flow or quality of the water from the two deep Artesian wells, as would have been the case if the cause of the earthquake had been local or deep- seated. This statement of the communioa* tion of land waves to enormous tances is fully verrifled by the ob servations of previous earthquakes since, and even before, the beginning of the Christian era- Th® ebsence a tidal wave proves conclusively thal the cause of the disturbance was con fined to the land, and the jerky m tion communicated to vessels, as ported by their oftlceri AT SUMMERVILLE, fie last correct information ceived about the delayed section of tho Columbia train that was due in Charleston at 9 o’clock on Tuesday night. Owing to an ordinary acci dent above Summerville the train did not reach Jedburg until 9.45 o’clock. The trein at the time of the earth quake was running along at thQ usual speed, aud when about a mile south of Jedburg it encountered a terrible ex perience. It was frieghled with hun dreds of excursionists returning from the mountains. They were all ga3' an 1 happv, laughing aud talking, when all of a sudden, in tiie langauge of one of tiie excursionists, the train appeared to have, “left the track and was going up. up, up into the air. Tliis was the ri-ing wave. Suddenly it descended, ami as it rapidly fell it was flung violently over to the east, the side of the car apparently leaning over at less than a ngle ot forty-five was re- prevent companied by tremors of it was only occasionally that the earth wonId^juake from the subterra nean discharges. A remarkable fact was noted in Summerville in respect to the bilging of the water from the interior of the earth. Nearly all the wells had been at low water. There was a sudden rise in these wells, and the a Iditional water was pure. Lookingdowuinto one of these wells, tiie observer could, on the eve of any of the land detonations, see the water rise up the walls of the well, aud after the shock again sub side. The consternation and dismay were so great in (Summerville that the peo ple clamored loudly to be taken awav from the scene of what was to be, as they thought their certain destruction. Accordingly about half-past 2 o’clock Mr. Averill placed at the disposal of the citizens a train composed of five coaches and throe box cars which carried away to Columbia about three hundred people. Tiie news received in Summerville, however, to the ef fect that the shocks were prevalent in nearly every place will possibty ny fqrthir exodus from the town. Grand Old St. Michael’s. (From the Philcidelhia Evening Tele graph.) And grand old St. Michael’s still stands! The historic Charleston structure, rich in memory, has with stood the fury of two great wars, man3'violent storms, and a C3 7 clone, and now it lias survived tha worst visitation of the centum*. Whatever damage has been done to St* Michael’s by the earthquake should ba prompt ly and thoroughly repaired, and the expenae met by a special national subscription. It Letyugs to the peo ple of the whole county’ as much as historic Trinity, New York, the Old (Sweeds, Wilmington, tiie Old South, Boston, or our own njein >rahle sacred edifice, Christ Church. It ie a land mark that should uot^bc obliterated. / The material injury to Charleston,] is variousty estimated at from flye mi| lions to fifteen millions of dollars. Ii our opinion the latter figure is nearer the truth. Excitement in Texas. Great excitement has been caused in the vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the remarkable recovery of Mr. J. E. Cor- Ie3', who was so helpless he could not turn in his bed, or raise his head; everybody said he was dying of con sumption. Atrial bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery was sent him. 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