St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 10, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 September 1886 — Page 1

VOLUME XII.

t LOVE DEAD. BY MANDA L. CROCKER. Love lies cold, and stark, and dead Upon our hearth: Ah! close his eyes, Once the home of sweet surprise ; Sweet surprise of love unsaid. l T old the hands that strove so hard l To unite those far apart— Fo d them 'bove his broken heart; Pain and death are love's reward. Kiss ihe lips which stubl orn pride Set a-guiver oft and cft. Oh! that those kisses, sweet and soft, Had been given ere he died! Ch'! wounded dimpled feet, now rest; Fecs that trod the thorns in vain To reunite the goluen chain— In pain and tears he lost his quest. Ah! he is deadl; crown him with rue, l Crown him with rue instéad of rose; "I'wi!l not disturb his deop repose, Nor make him less to me and you. Ah'! erown him with rue ; our love is dead ! So cold and dead upon the hearth, Where once he made & heaven on earth, When you and I were newly wed. FAIRVIEW; ) ~—=———)OR, | One September Night. TSO O T By JAMES FRANKLIN FITTS. [CONTINUED. } “I'll do my best, Harvey,” he said; “though I can promise nothing. Let us hasten on I deck; there isn’t an iustant to lose. Here | Joe—to a servant who was passing—“Lelp | this gent'eman to the deck; ll'll run onand | speak to the captain.” ; He darted away on his errand, and with ’ the help of the servant’s atin I managed to ! climb the staits. Ihe Narrows were behind i us, and the great swells of the Atlantic were eut by the good steamer’s bows 7 she gained headway. The pilot-boats tnat 1 had seen were now scattexed and distant; but a stout litt e steam-tug was dancing up | and down on the great billows as she made | for the Narrows. A hundred or more pas- | * gengers were on deck, enjoying the sea- l breeze and the exhilarating scene. “There’s the surgeon, sir,” said the man, seeing me look anxiously about. He pointed up to the bridge; there was Winfield, e:gerly talking to the captain, and gestur- | ing frequently with his hands. 'l'hecapiain shook his head; Albert persisted; again’ a shake of the head; and still my brave friend continued to talk and motion. I | watched them with a fluttering heart: could | he preval? While I looked, the captain | jerked a rope; in a moment the engines were | stopped, the steamer’s headway was almost | checked, and the great vessel lay rising and | falling on the waves. The steam-whistle ‘ sent forih two or three shrill screams, a~d ! to my delight the steam-tug turned about | and darted back toward us. Albert was now | by my side. } “it was not casy,” he said, “but I coaxed | the old man into it. You -haven't any | money, of course, after your adventures?’ i Money—l should have; but on search- | _ing my pockets, I found that every cent | had been tiken from me. It was part of i the plot that was exiiing me from howme and friends. “No matter; take th's till we meet again;” ‘ and he pressed a wad of bills into my hand. “And take some of this, too; you're all un- l s'rung; you'll need it to brace your nerves ‘ for the jum) you've got to make.” I took a liberal sup from his brandy-flask. i The tung was now within hailing distance, and the captain shouted from the bridge: l “Ahoy, there! Will you take a passen- | ger back, to oblige me?” ! “Ay, ay—if yoa can get him aboard | of us.” ; The ing came carefully up {o the huge | side of the steamer, rising toward her and | falling away alternately with the motion of | the great bil'ows. Clutching Albert’s hand, | and with his words of encouragement in | my ear, I went down the ladder. The tug | rose as I rcached the last step: it was a desperats leap, but I was equal to it in that l moment. The next instant I was safe on board the tug, amid the shouts and clapping of hands and waving of handker- | chiefs of the passengers who had collected | at the rail to sce the risky attempt made, | and the sereaming of the steam whistles ! increased the pleasant excitement. Out to sea ploughed the Hungary, and the tug bore me back to the great city. My spirits rose, my strength seemed to return; | when 1 stepped on the pier my old courage | came back to me. Only long enough I wait- | ed to make myself preseniable with the | help of the barber, and to take a little re- | freshment; and a west-bound tiain of the ‘ same nicht bore me away towa:d where | love and duty beckoned. My abductors | - could not have gained more than fifteen | . hours start on their return. i . Fly faster, then, ye wings of steam with | sinews of iron! Fly with me, that love i may be rewarded, that justice may be done! The tide has turned at last; the day of ! . wrong, of cutrage, of crime has passed; it is my innings now! Faster—{ly faster yet! I

CHAPTER VL ‘, i To him who is in frantic haste, delays | seem 1o lise up with provoking frequency. ‘ . In due course of railroad travel, stopping ’ neither for sleep, nor regt, nor food, I; - should have reiwched Berkeley upon the . twentieth day of September, ten days after ! 1 had been entrapped and carried away by | forcee. The delays that I encountered, | which time alone cou'd overcome, were ! . long and serious. A frightful collision ! . which wrecked both trains, and made a long | L lis_ of kil ed and mangled, detained me full | . twenty-four hours.. I smothered my im- ~ | patience in the effo t to be humane and L generons, and busied myself during that interval in hélping to care for the maimed | t and suffering. In the hot urgency of my | spir.t at that t me, this lesson of patienceand | the mercy of hLeaven that seemed exterfded | L to me did me infinite good. In the seat be- | side me had sat a young man, richly . dressed, with diamonds upon his hands and in his shirt-front, gay, careless nndl bhappy. He was struck instantly dead by a | . flying iron rod when the crash occurred. | Several sea's behind sat a mother, holding | her prattling infant in her arms; the babe | was killed, the mother lorrib y mangled. E These are but two of the samples of the | luin wrought by the accident, which | e is recalled to-day with a shudder as, | the worst that ever happened ¢n the | | road. And I was spared, without a scratch | or trace of injury; spared for love and happiness yet tobe. Why should I lot Le | patient? | Further on, a railway-bridge over a wide western stream was in flames, and the passengers stood on the bank and watched as it was consumed. It was an important link in. a great- system of railway travel and transportation; three rowds centered here; tr:ins mutipiied and collected upon both sid s, and two more days elapsed before I was ab eto pursue wy jonrney. So it happe.ed that it was the aftermoon of the twenty-third of Septem’ er when the vie nLity of Berkeley appearcd to me fiom the ear-windows: and there was rcason to think that Dr. Beanmont bad gnined 1a her more than three days on his way Lack. o : = e i

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As the train approached the village, a ‘new fear possessed me. I did not know, I ° could not conjecture, the stories that had been told to account for my sudden disap- l ; pearance. That some plausible explanation | of it had been given to the public, as part ’of o deep-laid plot to remove me ard to shield the malefactors, I could not doubt. What reception, then, should I meet with in the village? In what character should I be regarded there? These were questions which I anxiously asked myself, and which I could not answer. But there was one | thing that I did well know. The desperation of these plotters, their power, and the fertility of their resources to protect themselves, at whatever cost, I had fully learned. I could be sure that some infamous reason had been given for my disappearance: What, then, shoald I do? Could I dare to appear 1n the village, just as though nothing had happened? Could I presume to cope openly with the power of these men —to rush blindly upon the reception which they had probably prepared for me? CHAPIER VIL Anxiously did I reflect upon this question; and my answer, some miles before Berkele station was reached, was in the negative. { could not strike in the dark. I could not openly combat against these men, powerful, and intrenched in wealth and public opin- | ion as I knew they were. It was imposible | to say what influence, what fabrication they had not brought to bear to crush me, And 50 I must not suddenly appear in Berkeley. 1 dared not. Rather must [ reconnoiter the ground, and ascertain what had happened in the village and at I"ai view since my abduction. ‘lhen I should know what to do; then I could tell where and when to strike, As the train drew near to Berkeley, with these thoughts in my mind that I have spoken of, I feared to meet and to sece people of the place whom I knew. As station afterstation was passed, some whom { knew entered the train; I drew my hat ’ down over my eyes, shrank to tho corner of the seat, and thus avoided them. “Two | miles outside of Berkeley, there was a little cross-roads station, where the train stopped. Here I got off; and avoiding a a few others who also stopped there, 1 struck through the woods aud fields in the direction of Fairwiew. TrLe twenty-third of September, at five o'clock in the afternoon. The dates that 1 have thus far given are burned sharply in my memory; among them there is none more vivid than th s, It was the day when my fate was to be determined! Either I was awaited by love, by happiness, and by the justice that I should lring down with iron hand upon the malefactors, or 1 was to be driven forth from this community, dishonored and disgraced. Which should it be? Cautious’y I approached Fairview, entering the grounds from the rear. Through the woods and across the fi:lds, as the san declined in the west, I made my way; skulking—aye, skulking, if that wil best express it!—from one cover to another, to escape observation. To move openly was to challenge the observation of Clayton Terrcrs and his ni.aions; and I had neither the strength nor the disposition for a phy- | sical contest with them now. To see Paula again, to assure myseif that she was yet mine, whatever else might happen to me, was uppermost in my thoughts. And so, l without discovery, lapproached the coltage. | Its doors were locked; they gave no answer l to my knocks. The windows were uncartaiued; I looked through them, and saw | that the house was univhabited, ; I turned from the spot sick at heart Wkat had bappened to Paulaand her faithful friends—who could tell? Stiil avoiding | observation, I made my way to the main road, which ran from Berkeley past the front of the Fairview grounds. 1 would not | show myself—not yet; I hid myself behind | the tall hedge, and waited for people to | pass, from whom I might seek information. I saw several pass in carriages, on horseLack, or on foot, whom I knew, or whose i faces were familiar to me. I wounld not apply to them; I let them rass by. At last ' came a country boor on foot, whistling and E singing as he walked; and ¥ sallied out to meet him. So abruptly did I stand in his l way, that he started back as though he had | encountered a ghost. . “(Can you tellme,” I asked, “where Hugh Staples lives now?” | “Who—old Hugh, as used to live in the cottage over yonder?” ' “Yes. Where is he?” “Why, you see, the new master over l l there, Mr. Ferrers, turned him out, and he | had to go summers else. He's living now in that little house yonder, on t'other side ' the road; the third, as you sece, from here. o | I thanked him, and went on. I saw the goal of my journey before me; five minutes must pass before I could know of the safety | of her I loved. I stopped, turned, and | hailed the man, as his awkward figure was disappearing up the road. . ! “Hilloa! Do you know if there is a young | woman stopping in Mr, Staples’ family now?” l “Her that is sick? O, yes. She’s been | powerful bad, they say.” | I waited to hear no more; I flew down | the road to the house that was pointed out, | and rapped at the door. Mrs. Staples fi answered my summons, with her finger on l her lip; she recognized me, seized my hand | and burst into tears. | l “Paula?” | l It was all that I could say. She underi stood me, and motioned me to enter. :

“She has been sick—very sick,” she I answered. °She is better now. Her senses have returned to her, but she sleeps most of the time; but she must sleep, Dr. Gray says, if she is to win back her health. Come with me, but be silent.” Sfhe led me through the little, humble sitting room, into the sick chamber. There she lay, my beloved, with closed eyes, beautiful in her weakness and pallor as a marble ‘statue. I sat by her bedside; I gazed with inexpressible rapture on her face. One fair, slender hand had strayed outside the l doverlet; I yielded to the impulse, and took it in my own. Her glorious eyes suddenly unclosed; they saw me; a look of wonder- ' ful tenderness filled them. She laid her ' hand wpon my arm; she beckoned me down to her; she clasped her arms about my ' neck. | “Paula—dear Paula!” “Harvey--safe, thank God!” Ard thus she was restored to me. ! CHAPTER VIII, | They took me away {rom her—old Mrs. | Staples and Rosa Hudson, who were lovi ingly attending her. They told me that she | must sleep; that Dr. Gray had said that her | life depended upon her ability to sleep long l and soundly. So. with a kiss upon her lips, i I permitted myself to be led away from the | sick chamber into the gitting room. | There, when I could sit down and calmly ' converse, they told me the substance of , what Hugh Staples had put into his state- ' ment, far back in this narrative. It was ' only on the return of ,Dr. Beaumont from | New York, three days before, and his posi- [ tive statement that he had seen me there, 'in confirmation of the story which had been to'd of my felonious breaking into the Fair- | view mansion, thit Paula had yielded to | the terrible stress of excitement and mental agony that had for days oppressed her. | For forty-eight hours she had lain insens’i ible, threatened with brain-fever. Dr. | Gray h.d faithfully attended her; and it was o1 ly during the past night that she had awikened —pa'e, weak, more dead than aive—and faintly whispered my name. | They bad told her that I was coming; that

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I would be with her to-morrow; told her to comfort and relieve her, and help her back to health, while their own hearts were l sick and sore with the cruel fears that were grompted by my absence. And the morrow ad come; and to their astonishment and joy, I had returned. Presently old Hugh came in. He wo!l---comed me as one returned from the grave; and no wonder if my own heart went out warmly to the faithful ¢ld man who had suffered for his devotion to his murdered master, and who had shielded and sheltered Paula in her troubles. Much there was to say between us; but as quickly as possible I put all els> aside, and entreated him to te'l me what was said in the village about my absence. He told me the whole infamous story, without disguise. I had not known what to expect; I thought I was prepared for anything; but this revelation actually nerved me with indignation. My cheeks burnad, my heart throbbed madly; I walked the floor for some moments before I could control myself. “They are both here yet, are they, Hugh?” “Who—Mr. Ferrers and Dr. Beaumont? Yes. sir; Isaw them both to-day, riding out (o Fairview together.” “Will you come with me, Hugh? There is much to be done to vindicate my good name, and to overtake and punish these villains; and there shull be no delay. ILet us begin now."” “With all my heart! You do the thinking and planning; my old head is weary with all this tangle of raseality, and you must do the thinking to straighten it out. Where shall we go first?” “To Mr. Warner, the prosecuting attorney.” ~ We waited only for Dame Staples to ! make us a refreshing cup of tea, and then i started forth on our mission, CHAPTER IX. It was by this time after dark, and we walked along the road without any fear on -y part of recognition. We entered the village, and as we came upon the lighted streets 1 drew my hat down over my eyes and pulled up my coat-collar to escape the glances of the passeis. My companion and I were silent; 1 did not express my though's | to him; but I said to myself—there shall ' not long be nny necessity for you to hide vourself in Berkeley. Patience!—the hour | of deliverance and punishment draws | nigh. : ' I rang the beil at the front door of Mr. Warner's residence, and was informed that | he was at home. We were ushered intothe | sitting-room, and the girl speedily returned | w.th the word that Mr., Warner was very | much engaged, and he would like to know ) the nature of our business. To which I | returned the answer that we wished to see | the prosecuting attorney on the most im- | perative business connected with his duties | ag a public officer. We were admitted to | the library, where we found the lawver at | a table lttered with books and papers, | laboring by the light of a large lamp. He | continued his work for a few minutes after | our entrance. while we stood by the table; | and then, suddenly looking up, he saw us, and gave g long stare, accompanied by a low whistle. ‘ “Well! T am highly honored,” was his salutation. “Doctor Minton, I believe; and-—old Stap'es. Gentlemen, to what am ’ l I indebted for the honor of this visit?” * “I come to youas a complainant,” was | my reply. “lask for process against two persons.” “Agiinst whom?" “Clayton errers and Alexis Beaumont.” | “Indeed! For what offense?” . “Murder by poisoning. " -3 “Os whom?’ I “Edson Whalley.” The prosecuting attorney threw back his ! ' head and burst out into a prolonged peal !uf laughter, I stood ealmly by the table i with old Staples beh nd me, and calmly I | waited for his mirth to subside. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Whaat a Difference. ‘ Let every boy and girl read the following | differences between the horse and the ox— | physiologically anl anatomically consid- | ered. They are well worth your study and | thought : | CATTLE. HORSES. ! Have two toes, Have one toe. Horned. |Without horns. ‘ Have no ruane. Have flowing mane. ! Long hair in a tuft at/ Uail covered with long | end of tail. | hair. Pawing with fore feet Pawing with fore feet denotes anger, denotes hunger. | Seize forage with the Gather food witih the | ’ tongue. lips. j T.ips slightly movable. Lips very movable. | Have no upper iuncisor Have upper and lower | teeth. incisors. | ‘ Lie down fore parts Lie down hinl parts | first. first. j ’ Rise on hind legs first. Rise on fore legs first. | i Short mouth. No space Mouth long. Space be- | ‘ between incisor and, tween front and back | molar teeth. teeth. 1‘ Four stomachs. One stomach. | They chew their cud Do not chew the cud. | Intestines’ small — 120 Intestines large—-60 feet | feet long. long. Have gall bladder. Have no gall bladder, May vomit. Do not vomit. May breathe through Do not breathe through the mouth. the mouth. Mouth generally open Mouth never open from when wearied. | exhaustion. \ Defense by goring. Defense by kicking. Bellow or moo. Neigh or whinny. Do not sweat, {Perspire easiiy. Have dewlap. {Have no dewlap. No warts inside of hind Hard, oval warts inside legs. hinl legs. Néver use teeth in fight- Use the teeth in fighting. % fomg. ¥

WA TR Do not retract the ears. Retract the ears when ' | angry. i Very rough tongue. Soft, smooth t.ngueo. | Short, broad head. \TLoong, narrow head. i Wide, drooping ears. Erect, narrow ears. = Limbs formed for Linibs formed for | girength. speed. | Live twelve or eighteen Live thirty or forty years. years Do not roll in the dust. Do roll in the dust. Sleep with both ears Slecp with one ear foralike. | ward. Lie down to sleep. |Often sleep standing. Eat and lie down to Neve: ruminate. lat ruminate. | little and often. Shoulders straight. lShouldora sloping. Odds and Ends. : THE apple-colic days are come. , OrnD ladies well versed in hubs give sage advice. Youn address, please? Kissimme, I'la. Thank you; yes, don’t care if I do. DRINK produces a condition which we call drunk eor drunken—only when too much is taken. WHEN a young lady says she has two strings to her bow, she means that she has two beaux to her string. ALASKA women cure babies of erying by taking them 1o the seashore and holding them in the water until they are silent. i Is TaxiNG awife addition or division? | Tt adds to the family—divides the income, ete., ete.—capable of unlimited extension. Tar Marquis of Lorne is out against home rule. No wonder. He knows the disadvantages of i 5 ever since he was married. Tun principal beauty of the Mormon religion is that the same woman doesn’t have to get up the entire winter to build the kitchen fire. GLYcERINE and rese water is a good remedy for chapped lips, and young ladies will find it much safer than bezing tickled | by a mustache. . MARK Twaix has furnished parents with | a valuable recipe for bringing up boys. “Take ’em by the hair of the head,” he . | says, “and you're pretly sure to catch ‘em.*

CHARLESTON'S WOE . i —————— . The South Carolina City Wrecked . by Violent Earthquake Shocks. % D ———e Not a Hundred Houses Left Intact, and scores of Persons Buried in the Ruins. S ey . Fires Add Terror to the Scene—Fearful . . Sufferings of the People—A Sur- : . . vivor's Narrative. The Busi f Summervill ¢ s } usiness Portion of Summerville, ¥, S. C., Wrecked, and Many Persons ailled, . A terrible earthquake shock at Charleston, S. C., on the evening of Tuesday, the 31st ult., was followed at brief intervals by several others of less force. The first shock came from the southeast, and struck the ¢ity at 9:55 p. m., Tuesday. During the twenty-four houars following, there were ton distinet shocks, but they were only the subsiding of the earth-waves, The disaster ' was wrought by the first. Its force may be inferred from the fact that the whole area of country between the Atlantie coast and the Mississippi River, as far to the north as Milwaukee, felt its power to a greater or lesser degree. Charleston, however, was the special victim of this elemental destruction., The city i 8 substantially in ruins. Two-thirds of its houses are uninhabitable, What ’ stores are left are ¢losed, as their owners dare not go to them. Churches and other public l»'mhlmus are in ruins. Railroads and telegraph lines are torn up and destroyed, Between fifty and sixty lives are believed to have been lost, and many people were maimed by falling buildings and by jumping from the windows of | houses, Fires broke out and added to the horrors of the scene., The loss of property is roughly estimated at £10,000,00), "Two-thirls of the houses of the doomed eity are rendered uninhabitable, being wrecked oither totally or part!ull}‘. The approach of the quake, says o Charleston dispateh, was heralded by the usual ’ r{nnbling sound, resembling distant thunder. . Then, as it gradually approached, the earth | quivered and heaved, and in a few seconds it ! had passed, the sound dying out in the dis- . tance. The city is a complete wrock, St Mi | ehael's Chiurch and St. Philip's Church, two of ! the most historic churches in the city, are in | xuins, as also the Hibernian Hall, the police | stations, and many.other publie buildings Three or four fires staried in a8 many sections i with the first shoek of the earthquake, and the i city was soon illumined with flame, thus lead- ‘ ing all to believe what was left by the earth- | quake would be devoured by fire, I Hardly a house in the city eseaped injury, | and many are so shaken and eracked that a | blow ‘would bring them to the ground I'he | shock was severe at Summerville and Mount | Pleasant and on Sullivan's Island, but no loss | of life is reported there, Fissures in the earth { are noticed from which a fine sand, appavently | | from a great depth, exudes, A sulphurous sunell {8 I i | is very noticeable, | | The city is wrapped in gloom and business is | { entirely suspended. People generally remain | | in the streets, in tents and under improvised { shelters, and will esmagp cut to-night, fearing an- | other shock, | i Not even during Genoval l{um v A. Gilmore's | { bombardinent of the city has there ever boen such a deplorable state of affairs here. The ( eity is literally in ruins, and the peopie are liv- | iug in open squares and public parks, | There is a groat rush to the railvond depots to | get away, but owing to the earthquakes no | | trains have been able ¥ be dispatched {rom the i { Ccity, { Itis impossible to depict the ruin and derolation that prevails here. Not a single place of ‘ | business in the city is open save » drug-store, { which is busy preparing preseriptions for the { { wounded. It is lnmipossible also to give any cos | rect estimate of the killed and wounded, as ! | bodies are constantly being disinterred from the debris of the wreekoed houses, | Many of the dead are lying unburied, these ! being of the poorer classes of colored people, | who await burial by the county, There are not | s half dozen tents in the city, and the women ’ | and children are experiencing great privations | | in consequence, ‘ Sununerville, twenty-two miles frem Charles- ‘ { ton, was nearly destroved by the esrthquake. | | Many persons were killed and hundreds ren- | dered homeless. The whole business portion | of the town was badly wrecked, | i A NIGHT OF TERROR. | Graphic Description of the Awlul Scenes i That Occurred in Charleston, i [From the Charleston News and Courier,] | Necessarily the description that can be given i of the disaiter which has befallen our eity con- | sists in the narration of the experiences and ob- | servations of individuals, and, the subject be- | ing the same and the experiences of all being | nearly alike, the story told by one careful ob- | i server may well stand for a hundred others, | i with slight variations, Probably the bes! i idea that can be had of the character of | the disturbance, therefore, may be obtained | from a narration of the events and scenes of { Wednesday night as they were presented to i a single peraon. While engaged in his usual | duties in the second-story room of the News | and Courier office at the time of the first shock | the writer's attention was vaguely attracted by | & sound which seemed to come from the office ’ below, and which was supposed for a wmoment | to be caused by the rapid roiling of a heavy | | body, as an iron safe or a heavily laden truck, 1 over the floor, Accompanying the sound there | was & perceptible tremor of the building, | not more marked, however, than woull | be caused by ‘the passage of &« stn:«t ! car or a dray along the street. lor i perhaps two or three seconds the occurrence ex- | cited no surprise or comment, Then, by : wist degrees, the sound deepened in volume; the tremor became more decided; the ear caught the rattle of window-sashes, gas-fixtures, and other loose objects. The men in the oftice, with | perhaps & simultaneous flash of recollection of the disturbance of the Friday before, glanced hurr.edly at each othev, and sprang to their | feet, with startled questions and mls\\'ors.] What is that? Earthquake? And then all was | 5 LL 1S A ¢ . B A Y o R MR

bewildefment and confusion. Then the long i roll deepened and spreal into an awful roar that seemed to pervade at cace the twroubled earth and the still air above and around. The tremor was now a rude, rapid quiver that agitated the whole building as though it were being shaken by the hand of an immeasurable power, with intent to tear its joints asunder and seatter its stones and bricks abroad. There was no intermission in the vibration of the mighty subterranean engine. Krom the first to the last it was a continuous jar, only adding force to every moment, and as it approached end eached the climax of its manifestation, it secemed for a few terrible seconds that no work of human hands could possibly survive the shocks. 'The floors were heaving under foot, the surrounding walls and partitions visibly swayed to and fro, the crash of falling masses of stone and Dbrick and mortar was heard overhead, and without the terrible roar filled the ears. Itisnot given to many men to 100 k in the face of the destroyer and yet live; but it is little to say that the group of strong men who shared the experience above faintly deseribed will caxry with them the recollection of that supreme movement to their dying day. None expected to escape. A sudden rush was gimultaneously made to endeavor to attain the open air and flee to a place of safety; but before i the door was reached all reeled together to the tottering wall and stopped, feeling that hope was vain, That it was only a question of death within the building or without, to be buried by the sinking roof or crushed by the toppling | walls As wo dashed down the stairway and out into the street, alrendy on every side arose the ghrieks, the cries of puin and fear, the prayers and wailings of terrified wemen and children, commingled with the hoarse shouts of exeited men. Out in the stroets the air was filled to the height of the houses with a whitish cloud of dry, stifing dust from the lime, mortar, and shatfered masonry, which, falling upon the pwement and stone roadway, had been reauced to powder, Through this cloud, dense as fog, the gaslights flickered dimly, shedding but little light, so that you stumble at every step over the piles of brick or become entangled in the lines of telegraph wires that depended in every direction from their broken supports. On every side were hurrying forms of bareheaded men and women, partially dressed, some almost nude, and many of whom were crazed with fear or excitemert, The first shock occurred at 9:53, as was indicated by the public clocks. The second shock, which was but a faint and crisp echo’ of the first, was felt eight minutes later. As it passed away the writer started homeward, to find the scenes enacted on Broad street around the News and Courier ofiice repeated at every step of the way. §t. Michael's steeple towered high and white above the gloom, seemingly uninjured. The station-house, a mMAassive

brick building across the street, had | apparently lost its roof, whiek had fallen around it. A little farther on the roof of the portico of the Hibernian Ha hun%pme building in the Grecian style, had ¢rashed te the ground, carrying down part of the massive granite pillars with it. All the way up Meeting | street, which, in respect Offlfl generul direction and importance may be called “the Broadway of Charleston,” the roadway was piled with debris from the tops of the walls. In passing the | Cherleston Hotel, whichy to carry out the com- | gm‘ison above indicated, occupies the pesition of tewart's up-town store in New York, the third shoek was felt about tem minutes after the second, and, of course, caused the greatest alarm in that neighborhood, as elsewhere, At Mirion Square & great crowd had collected, as oven the edges of the wide spaces embraced in it could not be reached by the nearest buildings in the event of their fall. ¥rom this erowd, vomposed of men, women, and children of both races, arose incessant calls and cries and lamentations; while over the motley, halfdressed throng was shed the lurid liggé of the conflagration which had broken out just beyond the square immediately after the fir ook, and had now wholly enveloped sewer: Idiugs in flames, Sei R - | AT OTHER POINTS v | g T i | Consternation Produced by the Upheaval ‘ Throughout the Country. At Augusta, Ga., the earthquake shocks were quite severe, and produced great slarm, The plastering on many houses was broken, people rushed into the streets, women fainted and men were completely unnerved., Most of the citizens passed the night in thg open air. Shocks were felt all over Georgit, but no serious damage was caused. Throughout North Carolina the shocks - were guito sovere, At Asheville they produced the utmost constornation. ‘The disturbance was accompanied by a rumbling sound yesembling -distant thunder, buildings quaked, walls vibrated, and terror-givicken men, women, and children in night elothes rushed from houses into the ‘(‘l‘t'll air, The earth shcok and bells tolled in i their towers, while the people, in consternation, prayed, fainted or stood dazed by the alarming phenomena, The negroes began a re- § lgions meeting in one of the churches, which 1 | was kept up all night, At Charlotte, Waynes- | ' ville and Weaverville, N, (~ scveral houses ‘ were wrecked and a number of chim- ' neys toppled over At Columbia, 8. | U, no less than sigteen distinct shocks - were felt, The first shoek was tearful, and 1, houses were shaken as though made of paste- - board. It seemed as if everything must topple, ) The rumbling in the earth was loud and horrifying in the extreme. Clocks stopped, ltells were rung, and damage done to some buildings, l principally Ly toppling chimzneys., Two rooms | in the Governor's mansion were wrecked. | There were numbers of cases of nervous Prostration, and doctors were in demand to compose the frightened people, A large political meeting was being held in the Court House, but it adjourned in a panic. 'T'he walls of the Court House were eracked, and one partition badly 80. The colored people assembled in the streets, praying. At Murphysboro, lIL., the shock was quite sovere. Brick walls shook, glassware clinked, - and hanging lamps were sent swinging like 'prn.lulnum, Doors vibrated as if shaken by unseen hands, The fire bell on the court house ‘ kept up o rapid fire alarm for more than a minute. At Decatur, 111, the shock was felt quite sensibly, It rattled and shook articles in dwellings and swaved business buildings slightIy north and south. QOeccupants of rooms ran out into the street. No damage, but some fright. At Greeunville, 111, theve were lively shocks, at intervals of about half a minute, and buildings were rocked under their action, but no damage was done, At Jacksonville, 111, ! butldings vibrated from east to west, tables and other articles tipped, and { people wore ?rmutl_\ frightened, At Vieksburg, Miss,, the City Council was in ses- ' sioh, and the City Hall, » very frail building, t conatracted on high brick pillars, under which II is the ity market, was madoe to rock sothat the i board adjounrmed suddenly and uncercmonious- { Iy, The shocek was also felt in other places ; throughout the ecity, At Hannibal, Mo., the { walls of the briek buildings trembled, and in some cases swayed., OCno or two moeetings ! adjourned hastity, and the printers in | thoe Jowrnal oftce dropped their sticks and prepared to run, but the shoeck was over before they got started. 'Three { distinet shocks were felt at Cairo, lil, la-ting about ten seconds. People ran from their houses in a fright. Clocks throughout the

HEAWER SAVANEE 488 WAt Ansav. SAAVWIAG WAL VAR AINTWME AW Y eity stopped or were disarranged. Everything yendent swung to and fro, while the vibrations i of buildings were frightful. The shock wns' generally felt throughout Richmond, Va., and : | the excitement was intense. At Ptttsburgh the | hotel guests rushed into the streots panic- | stricken. At Media, Pa., dishes were t}mvwni from shelves, clocks stopped, and occupants of the houses rushed out, screaming with terror, At Louisville, Ky, the shoek was qui‘'e severe, and lasted half & minute, At Detroit, Mich., the shock was so great as to frighten the occupants of buildings, who stampeded for the street. At Cincinnati, printers in the Swun office thonght | the building was falling, and abandoned their ‘ cases, There was a panic in the Republican office, at St. Louis, the printers rushing ‘ pell-mell from the builaing. The shock | resembled the wmotion of a serles of water waves. The guests occupying the ! upper floors of the Southern and Lindell ‘i{otols | rushed down-stairs badly frightened, fearing that some catastrophe was übout to occur, At Memphis, Tenn., the shock was severe, and the moticn was north to south, lasting fully ten | seconds. It bad a rapid oscillating movement. | Great consternation was felt. At Washington, | D. C., two shocks oceurred, the second of longer | duration and more severe than the first, tmd! a few seconds latter. It was felt in all | parts of the city, creating considerable con-’ sternation. At Indianapolis, Ind., the shock was of a tremulous, quivering character. Many } guests of the Denison House rushed from their | roomis in alarm, and similar scenes were wit- i nessed in a number of other buildings. At | Cleveland, Ohio, the shock caused great con- | sternation, and almost a panic occurred in two | theaters, At Terre Haute, Ind., two distinct | shocks were felt, Windows were rattled | and in several cases plastering was dis- i lodged from ceilings, A large audience was | present at the Opera House attending a minstrel | show. The building sheok until people became panic-stricken, being under the impression that l the structure was about to fall. Those in the gallerics felt the shock most severely, and they | rose and made & rush for the exits. The crowds in other parts of the house followed, women sereamed, an | there was struggling sand rushing for the doors. Almost the entire audience fought its way to the st eet. At New York the shock was plainly felt. In the upper stories of the tall Western Union building the waves wer plainly discernible, and persons walking about experienced the sensation as of falling. At Co- l lumbus, Ohio, the shock was quite severe. At the Central Asyvlum for the Insane, the largest building for insane in the world, furniture was turned around, and the patients became so alarmed that the attendants had trouble in getting them to returm to their 4 g~ | o AN ENRRA: R

wards. At the Imstitute for the Blind | the shock was so strong that rocking-chairs on ! the floor were made to start in motion, and the | chandeliers were swayed to and fro, The teach- 1 ers at the Blind Institut: refused to return to | their rooms a‘ter runting to the main audience- ! room below, At this point it was accompanied | by a low. heavy, rumbling sound, At Columbia, S, C., there were ten distinct shocks, CONFLICTING AUTHORITIES, ] Lyvarned Men That Hold Different Views on | the Causes of Earthquakes, [Washington telegramn. | Prof. Newcomb of the Nautical Almanac says that there is no astronomical explanation of earthquakes. He says the talk about the peculiar weather of this season having anything to do with the present one is nonsense. Prof. Powell of the geelogical survey has | an elaborats theory about the thin- | ness of the crust of the earth along| the Atlantic borders. Prof. Capen, froin the Signal Serviee Bureau, who has made considerable local reputation, and who profasses to have foretold this disturbance three weeks ago, says that it is divectly attributed to the influence of the three' bodies, sun, mcon and earth, When these bodies get into a certain relation to each other disturbances are likely to occur. Professor Mendenhall of the signal service, who | has lived in Japan where he could study earth- 1 quakes every day, says they are not subject to any rules so far as he knows, STATISTIiCAL, Frequency of Earthquakes—ln This Country They Occur Every Twelve Days. ‘ During 1885, says Major Powell, Director of | the United States Geological Survey, thero were f recorded the following earthquakes in the United States and Canada: Canadian provinces, §: New England, 5; Atlantic States, 9; Mississippi Valley, 3; Pucific Slope, 44, total, 5). During the twelve yew.s from 1872 to 1883 thore have been recorded in the United States and Canada 364 earthguakes, distributed ag follows: Atlantic Slope, 147; Misgissippi Valley, 066; Pacific Slope, 181, From this list it appears that in the entire arca earthquakes occuron an Average once in twelve days, and once amonth on the Atlantic slope, Many of theso disturbances are, however, so slight as to be unperceived by the majority of the people, and it should be observed that the list is more complete in the densely populated and frequently shaken Atlantic slope than in either the seldom-shaken Mississippi Valley or the sparsely populated Pacific slope.

O " CHICAGO SHAKEN S : One Hundred ;g ousand Pounds of Powder and Dynamite ! Struck by Lightning. i el o thimcaave. All the Houses in the Vicinity Demolished by the Explosion Which Resulted. One Girl Instantly Killed and Four Persons Injured So They ‘ Will Die. « '4 Five Others Bad,’ gux't~Bfiecw of the Explosion Felt at a Distance of Seven Miles. [From the Chicago Daily News.) As James Duhnsiock was beating his way through the rain on Archer road Sunday morning a lightning bolt sl:ot out of the black northern sky, having seemingly selected him for the target of its wrath, The blinding sensation was instantly followed by a withering crash, and before he could breathe the prayer which rose insensibly to his lips he fell to the ground | stunned, At the Brighton Park drug-store, a | mile away, the tall clock careened to the flcor, I and smashed into fragments among the debris { trom tho shelves, Its battered hands marked { the time, 9:20, Two hundred yards west of I where Duahnstock lay a community of l houses was in ruins of splinters and | flames, entombing dead and dying, while ten t miles distant, in the heart of Chicago, French | glass windows were strewn over the sidewalks | in pulverized pieces. Mystified men, women, | and children ran hither and thither, wondering | if this was a new Pompeii without a \ -suvius, | and wildly speculating on the causes uand re- | sults of the earthquake shock that had swept | along the lake shore, Not until two hours later | was it learned that the dynamite magazine of | Laflin & Rand had been exploded, causing great | havoe and desolation, Tho destructive forces {of 1,6 pounds of dynamite and 3,000 | pounds of black powder were discharged by the | eleetric fuse, Houses, trees, and fences went | down before the mighty blast like grass before | the scythe, and peoplo for miles around were | stricken insensible with wounds or speechless { from terror. The dead and injured are: | Dead—Carrie Earnsworth, 14 years old. | Fatally Injured—John Kann, 85 years old; | farmer, of Auburn Station. John Gugl. 40 years | | old; driver for the Laflin & Rand Powder Com- | ! pany. Mr§ John Gugl, 21 years old ; wife of the | former, Mrs, Eliza Devine, 63 years old; wid- | ow, Pctor Ham, 28 years old, gardener; has | wife and one child, James Shannon, 16 years | old; parents reside on Joseph street and Pear- | son avenue | Seriously Hurt—Two Kelly brothers, 14 and 16 | years old respectively: parents residing on Western avenue, near Thirty-sixth street, —— Madden, a small boy, whose parents reside on | Thirty-cighth street, near Pearson avenue, Philip Bowler, cabinet-meaker, 722 South Union sireet; arm crushed by flying stone, and ampututod, John Lorden, Jr,, 17 years old, of 165 | Canalport avenue; leg badly crushed, I Loesser Casualties—John Jung, 52 vears old, | gardener; rosides south of Archer road, Mrs, Jung, 46 years old; wife of the former, Miss Kennedy, 18 years old; parents reside on Johnson street, a quarter of a mile from the scene. | At Brighton Park Archer avenue takes the character of the regulation country road, tolerably well graded, but muddy in rainy weather, I and provided with deep ditches on either side. The road cuts through a portion of the Town of | Lake, and in the triangular piece of the town which adjoins the Town of Cicero stands, or | rather stood, Justice Tearney’s residence, once | a handsome frame structure. To either side of the road, within several hundred yards of the | Tearney homestead, extends level prarie

for miles, A few small market gardeners tll little patches of cultivated soil; other- . wise the country around wears arather desolate . aspeet, Besides the few human habitations - seattered on the prairie, nine queer-looking | structures attracied the eye of the passer-Ly. . They do 80 in a greater degree now, because . with the exception of one they are wrecks. | Built solidly of brick, about 50 by 30 feet in di- | mensions, and of two-storied height, they would | look like so many small jails were it not for the | fact that there are no windows to admit light. | A huge and massive iron door is the only means i of egress and ingress, 'They all have a sort of | sinister appearance; one that makes the ob- | server look twiee as he passes by and wonder | what they contain. | What there is stored of blasting powder, dyn- | amite, nitro-glycerine, and other terrible ex- | plosives for the Chicago trade is in these houses, | One of the nine belonged to the Laflin & Rand | Powder Company. i STRUCK BY THE LIGHTNING. | Many passers-by, perhaps, have time and | again imagined the havoe that must follow should one of these magazines of destruction | belch forth its contents. It happened yesterday. | A thunderstorm: had been raging at intervals | during the early morning hours. It subsided | somewhat toward 8 o'clock, but an hour later | the elements broke loose with renewed fury, ! The ranin fell in torrents, and vivid flashes of | lightning cleft the dark skies, followed by roars | of thunder, | About that time John Kann, a young fariner | from Auburn Station, stopped at McLarney | Erothers' grocery and sailoon to avoid the | drenhcing rain, He had two stout horsas attached | to his heavy farm wagon and was pound for | home. When the heaviest gust of rain abated, | seemingly subsiding into a regulation all-day | drizzle, the farmer wrapped himself up in a | horse blanket and started his team off on a jog | down the road, He had to keep a sharp eye on | his bays, because the lightning cane in flashes | which succeeded each other rapidly, as if all ! the electricity of the sultry and oppressive | atmosphere had been concentrated upon the | spot where the immense stores of explosives | were scattered along the read near by, [ In the short intervals between the lightning | the lurid sky overhung everything with almost | absolute darkness. Suddenly one of the elece flashes was followed by a terrific crash, as il the earth had been cleft asunder by some unknown gigautic force. It was the death knell of the lone traveler on Archer road, Rocks were hurled through the air, trees rent to the roots, * fences blown down for miles, houses unroofed | and reduced to splinters, and torrents of mud | showered around for hundreds of yards, The 1 terrific force of the explosion mnade the thundex | of heaven appear insignificant. The powder

B A. . I oe i T e (i, ol T 118 ] e -t, aeer RNG TA T S | magazine of Laflin & Rand had l:een‘struck] | by lightning and 1,500 pounds of dynamite and w‘ 3,000 pounds of powder went up, creating a | havoe as it old Vulean had split the earth from | within his subterranean abode. The ground | seemed to rock and sway under the terrific | force of the concussion, and the country for blocks around was wrapped in clouds of stifling smoke. Mr. Kann was hurled through the air for o distance of over a hundred feet, his ' mangled body being found half an hour later, | The base of the unfortunate man’'s skull was { blown off, and the brains were 00zing out upon the muddy field. Pieces of wood and iron bhad penetrated his back and caused horrible gashes all over his body, from which the blood was flowing, gathering in pools. All of the clothes of the man, except those covering the lower extremities, were as if out ' off from his back. only a few shreds hanging loosely around the lacerated form. He was ! suffering untold agonies at the County Hospital | last night. His death is almost a certainty. Os ‘ the wagon, only a few scattered pieces gave | witness that the vehicle had been painted a bright red. Both horses were stripped of the harness, not o vestige of leather remaining on { them. The one cn the side of the exploded magazine was killed instantly, the carcass being hurled into the ditch on the south side of the road ; the other horse escaped unharmed, sepmpered off into the field, and was later on caught and stabled. PREAKS OF THE DISASTER. ‘ The force of, the explosion was terrific. It tore down or wrecked every house within a quarter of amile of the magazine. The surrounding magazines were unroofed, and several of those nearest had their walls demolished, Houses which withstood the shock of the concussion were a second after treated to a perfect ghower of stones and huge bowlders, The magazine was built over abed of tough blue clay. The dynamite, as usual with this terrible explogive, went downward. It tore out a hole twenty feot deep and thirty feet in diameter, shaped much like the bottom of a huge punch-bowl, Into this natural mortar the brick walls and huge foundation stones were tumbled, only to | be hurled out the next instant, The principle was exactly the same and the force of- the mon- | stor missiles as great as if the huge hole of clay had been a mortar of chilled stecl and loaded with all the giant powder it would hold. Huge stones, weighing fully 100 pounds, were gent gniling through the air like solid round shot, while a perfect cloud of broken bricks and splinters of stone swept over the surrounding country like a volley of canister and grapeshot, Fences were obliterated and si walks uprooted for half a mile around. POTATOES THROWN OUT OF THE GROUND. Just east of the exploded magazine there was a field of potatoes. The concussion caused by

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M the shook jerked every potato out onte the surface, It saved the man who owned them & lot of trouble, and {esterduy they lay on the dam: earth already to be taken up in bags and cax'rieg to market. The big field in which the m‘?flfd body of Farmer Kann was found looked 1 & Vermont hillside, so thick was it sirewn with rocks and pieces of brick. A stone weighing not less than a hundred pounds was shot acrogs the field at just such a height that it left a narrow black furrow in the short grass, Away to the other side of the field, almost two blocks away, directly in the course of this huge stone, stood a small tree. The tree was cut off six inches from the ground, and through the picket fenca close by a big, round hole showed where the stone had glamced oft on its courss. A trail of torn and uprooted cabbages led to the spot wuere the terrible missile had at last stopped. It was almost buried in the loose soil of .he cabbage field, a quarter of & mile [rom its starting point. FEEAKS OF THE EXPLOSION, The freaks of the explosion were a3 wonderful as they were unexplainable, John Gugl’s houss was torm to pieces and set on fire, while only 100 feet away the house occupied by Justice Tearney had one side cleared off as neatly as though carpenters had worked at it & week, A horse in Justice Tearney's barn, a little way back of the house, was torn and cut by a shower j of stones, which came through the board siding as though it had beexn- card-board. Another horie, ¢lose beside the wounded animal, did not receive a sdratch, o John Jvng, & Hollander, lived in " ditle one-story-and-attic cottage, nearly opposite from Tearney’s, on the other side of Archer roadd. He was sitting mnear a window, looking out at the rain, when he suddeniv heard a crash and a whole pane of glass was driven into his feet, His wife was knocked down, and his two sons and a daughter tossed to the other side of the room. Almost a quarter of a minute after the affrighted family heard « terrible erash over their heads, followed by another still louder, which shcok the little cottage from top to bottom. Jung and his family threw themselves to the floor and gave themselves up for lost. As no more shocks came, the grown-up son arose and helped hjs father to a chair, Then he climbed up aladder leading to the attic and found two holes in the roof big enough to let a man’s body through. There were also two immense stones in the attic, They had been a part of the foundation of the powaer magazine five minutes before, and had been shot out of the big clay mortar with such force that they cut through the rocfas clean as a cannon-ball could have done. MANY MIRACULOUS RSCAPES, ~There were many miraculous escapes and thrilling incidents, John Kelley without a mark or scratch the worse for his adventure, is sure he traveled fifty feet through the air. He was walking down Archer road about a quarter of a mile from the Laflin-Rand magazine whea he heard a terrible roar, The sidewalk raised up with him, and then he felt himself sailing through the air, Stones and rocks whistled by him, and the next thing he knew was half an hour after when he came to his senses in a pile of hay. He had been blown into a haystack fully 100 feet from where he stood. He crawled out, and not finding any bones broken, although he felt a little stiff and sore, went over to the hole where the magazine had stood. When he saw the effects of the explosion he was lost in amazement, “Be jabers, it's a wonder I wasn’'t blown over the moon,” he sjaculated. BLOWN OUT OF AN ENGINE CAB, Frank Minshaw, & fireman on the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railroad, was in the cab of his engine 300 yards away when the thunderstorm apvroached. He saw an arrow of blue flame strike the tin roof of the powcar house., Instantly the blue flame spread over the metal covering, and a moment later he was blown from the cab across an adjoining railrond track. The cresh of the thunder swelled into a deep-toned, dull report, the ground vibrated as from an earthquake, and the concussgion from the air dea.fenec% him, When he had gathered up his seattered senses | and looked toward the powder house he saw stones, timbers, and flying missiles in the air, and the earth thrown up in a cloud of dust, | Tho crash of glass in the round-house and re- | pair shops near by followed the first revort, A | stone weighing 15) pouands passed through the | roof of the round-house, the top and side of a ' | box car, and into the ground. Another stone | nearly as large was hurled through the repair ' { shop half amile away, ; DAMAGES AT A DISTANCE, 4 The shock was very severe at the bridewell, ) | and a panic among the prisoners was narrowly y nvcrto()l. The windows on the south side of the

SRYUAVE, 4AMAU WILMWNUVWE VA W 0 SV BIUO O vl building were badly demolished, and glass and pieces of the sashes were hurled fifteen or twenty feet into the rooms and broken on the opposite walls. The door casings on the lower story were splintered into kindling wood and the locks broken. The plastering on tha - ceiling of the main hall was all loosened, and a large crack extends from one end of the hall to the other, a distance of 200 feet. An iron door in the attic, which weighed 200 pounds, was broken from its hinges and hurled half way across the room. A largse joist four inches thick was broken squarely in two, In the laundry and kitchen much damage was j done. The carpenter shop and many of the outhouses were badly shaken up. The damages to the building and grounds are fully $2,000, Col, Felton was lying on the sofa in frout of a 4 window when the shock occurred, The window was broken by the concussion and the Colonel was completely buried beneath a pile of broken glass and kindling wood. He escaped injury, but was budly stunned by the shock, Mrs. Armour, the matron, was prostrated, and for a time was considered in & critical condition, She revived later in the day, and last night was considered out of danger. The prisoners were greatly frightened. The ignorant among them imagined that the end of the world had come, while the more inteliizent ones thought they were about to be swallowed bylan earthquake. They were soon quieted, with the exception of a few of the most guilty wretches,who will probably continus to shake for days to come, SIMULTANEOUS SHOCKS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, The southwest portion of the city seems to have received the brunt of tha shock, although damage is reported as far north as Evanston, The windows on the west side of McCormick's reaper factory were nearly all brokem. The sawme is true of those on the south side of W. W. Kimball’'s piano factory and the building occupied by the Chicago Malleable Iron Works, both of which are situated in that neighborhood. The water in the river near McCormick's factory was greatly agitated by the disturbunce, and lashed over the banks for many feet on either sides. A water pipe burst in front of the Malleable Tron Works and flooded th:e street before it could be repaired. Many builings in the vicinity of the Twelfth street pclice police station were damaged. At the Jesuit Chuarch, at the corner of Blue Isiand avenue and Tweltth street, a regular panic occurred, Over two thowsand people, mostly women, were crowded in the basement at the time. Fome one velled fire at the moment of the explosion, and instantly there was a rush for the door., The weak were knocked down and ruthlessly trampled upon, while many of the stronger ones iminped through the windows and escaped. An alarm was turned in and the fire department responded to the call, No one was seriously injured. PEOPLE SCARED OUT OF THEIR WITS, The business portion of the city did not escape. The shock put out the gas in the Grand Pacific Hotel, and caused a lively scene among the guests. Many of them rushed down-stairs minus shoes and stockiugs, while others, clad in scant raiment, huddled in the halls and corridors. No serious injury was done to the building, Two windows in the east corner of the Board of Trade were demolished, Three windows on the north and east side of the Government building were also broken, and a large plate-glass in Spiegel’s furniture at the corner of State and Jackson streets was destroyed, On the West Side considerable damage was done to dwelling houses, 1n many places on Ashland avenue and Washington boulevard chandeliers were knocked down and dishes were smashed in the closets, In one house on Morgan street not a chandelier was left hanging, BILLTARD BALLS HURLED FROM THE TABLR. A rather amusing incident occurred a% the Union House, A number of voung men were enjoying a game of billiards. One young fellow had succeeded in placing the balls to suit him and was leaning over the table preparing to shoot, when the shock came and every ball was hurled from the table, much to the chagrin of the player and the amusement of the lJookers-on, A block of stone of about one hundred and fifty pounds went through the wall of the Grand Trunk Roundhouse, about a mile north, and another dropped through the reof, smash- | ing in the cab of an engine, FATAL CONVULSIONS, A negro woman living at the corner of Leavitt and Hinman streets was so badly frightened | that she went into convulsions and is not expected to recover, : ‘ A driver on the Blue Island avenue line was standing in the front door of the car barns, | When the shock came he was thrown bagckward | onto the floor and stunned, When he came to he was suffering from convulsions. He was report- | ed better last night. | Joseph Fester of 119 Brown street, was walk- | ing along Blue Island avenue, near Twelfth | street. He was in front of Apollo Hall when | the explosion occurred, five miles to t?le south- | west of where he stood. The concussion shive | ered a pane of plate-glass in o window in the .| second story of the building. A falling piece cut a gash over his left temple. Four stitches | united his savered scul;;i and he went home to ¢ ronder how it happened. = (‘?31‘110 shock wu.slsln great,” sail Warden Mec- | Garigle of the County Hospital, “tbat the windows on both sides of the main building wero broken. The whole immense structure shoolk , | from cellar to garret in such a maunner that the - | dighes on the tables rattled. TR oo