Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1886 — THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE SOUTH.

It is said that not more than twenty white families are left in the town of Summerville, S. C. A shock occurred there on the 15th inst. which overthrew a small brick building. At a meeting of the relief com* mittee at Charleston it was stated that it would take at least $1,000,000 to make necessary repairs upon the residences of the people, who are unable unaided to repair their homes. Ex-Governor Lucius Fairchild, Command-er-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Be-

puMfc, who went to Charleston for the purpose of examining the situation of affairs, has issued an apiieal to members of the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he requests department oom man de re to call upon each post in their department to appoint committees to collect subscriptions to the relief fund. The money collected is to be transmitted to headquarters, whence it will be sent to the Mayor of Charleston. Am avalanche of stone crashed down the mountain side upon the home of Leslie Cummins, in Jackson County, West Virginia. Frank Cummins and Edward Jenks, the hired man, were killed, as were also five horses. Two children were so badly cruahed that they can not recover. The house and barns were smashed to kindling wood. General 8. W. Cbawfobd, who went to Charleston immediately after the earthquake, has returned to Washington. He says that the most pressing need in the afflicted city just now is among the small property-holders, whose little homos have been destroyed. These people are utterly Upable to repair their ruined dwellings unless it be by mortgaging or otherwise incumbering the property to an extent that would in most cases be a virtual transfer.