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squares and public pa is | 4 great rush to the railroad depots to rte arth- Charleston Ruined by Earthquakes. get away, but owing to the eart —oe oe 0 | dispatched from tke city. Tele | graphic communication is also cut | | off save by one wire of the southern Over Forty Persons Killed gud s« Injured. —+-2-—— Three Quarters of the Town Almo-t | Destroyed. telegraph company which 1s crowd - | ed with anxious private messages. oR i area It is impossible to depict the ruin Wild Terror of the Stricken City’s Im-| 44 desolation that prevails here. habitants. Not a single place of business in the aaa | city is open except one drug store, Charleston, S. C., Sept. t---A™) wich is busy preparing prescrip- | earthquake such as was never be- Gone ior the wounded:. tas ampos- fore known in the history of this) cite. also, to g aay corect esti city swept under Charleston last) ate of the killed and wounded. as night shortly after 10 o'clock, CaUs~| }odies are constantly being disinter ing more loss and injury to property | jeg from the debris of wrecked and far more loss ot life than the] houses. One undertaker who was cyclone of last year. he city Was) interviewed stated that he | tur- } wrecked, The streets are incum: | yicned eight coffins up to noon to- bered with masses ot fallen bricks | gay. Many of the dead are lying and tangled telegraph and telephone | unburied, these being of the poorer | wires and up toan early hour it was almost impossible to pass from one burial by the ‘There are county- part of the city to another, The first shock by Most the people with was far the the women and children pices severe. lencing great pr vation In conse- |, their families passed the night im the this were crowed with people affraid to | quence. ing ,. — As night approached Streets, which even most of the re enter their homes. More than sixty persons were kill construct tents out of bed sheets, acl . . + 2 oat a ed and wounded, chiefly colored. | dent come sn di bend. lena slept together. So ut Among the whites killed and fatally f : , ¥ % . fout were We that ho one injured are M. J. Lynch, Dr. R.) The Capture of Gen, Marmaduke. ; ee out eating; going to sleep Alexander Hammond and Ansley J. F. Monahan in Detroit Free Press. | is : : wee ; Robinson. The ‘Battle ot the Osage’? was | UCD & a Pt eee Fires broke out in different parts | fought in the latter part of October. The V vanishing Lady Sens: of the city immediately after the 1864. There were two engagements, | London, Aug. 30. The vanishing earthquake and some were stil! burn- | @ne in the morning and one in the | lady sensation which has been the ing this morning, but there was no talk of Pars tor weeks, has There is During the morning fight the pres- | also the sensation ot Londo danger of their spreading. no way of leaving the city at present. | €nt governor of Missouri, General ected: ANOLHER VIBRATION. farmaduke, was taken prisoner. [I | At 38:35 morning another wave swept under the city, coming as the others did, trom the southeast northwest direction, was a participator in the charge | | | } | afternoon. { | i jt o'clock precisely — this } made by the Union torces, and an his identity was not known for a halt ina and gomg By that time the people who had been out on the public parks and night had ventured into their houses | hour afterward. The country for | | { miles in the Osage region is unbrok- ea prairie; the ground undulating; open places all the hills and hollows seeming to run | to get clothing and something to eat P Agate JESS Es nee ie Sukecssh Gf the quake wa: battle ground, ao in ae the | Mecidede cys the iuadal cinbhing accounts of the English campaign in | sound resembling distant thunder. OTST es GSS aT CEG) any of our pursuit of the Contede Then it gradually approached, the : through Missouri. earth quivered and heaved and in : . three seconds it had passed, the Just after crossing the dry of sound dying out in the distance. a oe ¢ River, we heard skirmish This was the only wave felt: since |'5? M0 9008 Cat i ch ee 2:30 this morning. It was noc de * le pies, <, and) structive, all the destruction having paige in as : Muna) been done at 9:55 last night. pombeny ae soak un Cav St. Michael’s church and Sr. ae seok peenices oo anger, Philip’s church, two of the most ee ico edlatle Brieade ous historic churches in the city are in| mander. My position was on the ruins, as is also Uiberman hall, the | nas ee He Bp mane Duniae police station and many other pub- ||’ pgurR Vests | setuice sLabad users lie buildings. | om tiny wonderful sights,and had been | Two-thirds of the residences ey ‘ome very close quarters. But the city are uninhabitable and wreck | B°VeT bad Te seen 9.000 horsemen ed either totally or partially. It was Eon upon ae ee? Sue We impossible this morning to give AS alee BEE ss ‘ wiiiss itis torfect estimate of the casualties, I believe I am safe im saying that | Since the battle of the Pyramids in Egypt, modern warfare had not seen the like. The enemy well supported by their arullery, and as I looked across th but it was estimated fifty and one hundred been killed and wounded. At the time of the first shock tires broke outin five different parts ot the city, and about twenty pb were destroyed, that between persons had were several hundred intervening s; I could see the mouths of the can non. While we sat on *waiting for orders, Gens. our horses uses ?Jeasantor | Gen. are exper- | eye witness of his capture, although | ; ! have surrendere | quakes no trains have been able to be | with a crow Gen. Ja He st through I looking hand, and said: “How do you Marmaduke ?”” Gen. nook h few words, Gen, Lane walked ‘taking G When ta he time Benteen, cut ther War. trom was in the museum in C M | i . | office fr tinguish large s$ horse our onslaught, | spare awning and any other material | pat een introduced by Mr. Carl Hee at the Royal Music Hall. T pertormer methodically places a| c elon t s on gain} we outspreads a newspaper, upon \ this he places a chair and the yanish ing lady takes her seat. A veil 1s ; Vi . - throwa over her, completely cover= Bootd&Shos Makers figure. While Mr. Hertz is | ing the Ww without A St. Ps her spou one ever is inside to Mi The house, cordially going to Yes, mounting m to the rear. srisoners, Walked up to a again in the “Hubby,” neapolis. St. Pau greeted the them Ono d of prisoners, mes Lane go sed, and, pushing the crewd of Confederate, is hand warmly, an Marmaduke wi zen. armaduke had no ir om which he could ed fromthe commotr hat. I touch hay was that led the charge, made afternoon, to and again 1 perf to itnessed the able Bre being mystery. Loe: te: Min Pau aul : Man said a ise came up on the ning, ‘tan old friend , and he called on man ente gentlem. and said: Minneapolis.”’ he reece a incl L man | 1, after a} aken Gen. Marm hac a star and crescent. no one knew him, and Col. noticing the ornamer 1 trom the hat as trophies of The star when last heard be dis classes of colored people who aw ait | haying a simple gray uniform and a e never not a halt dozen tents in the city and | learned who the rider on the white i that he was a staff officer. Tie Contederates other] || i : the crystal, and perhaps the mov It ise economy to bu James B. a stand | Watch ,in which NoNz of these tl rming ir jheads of tamilics begin trying to | gquares, but could not stand betore etreate xyht horses and men lay down terly worn thought was s¢ ation. become nha entertaining the audience with a hitve newspaper men aad several conjurors ormance the lve mneapolis. tlady as pivzza ot your’s his way red the tn quite **Wite says you are thinking of I thought 1 would.’”’ All the stores were closed to-day, and Curtis came down be- | : : and a scarcity ot provisions 1s teared | SYCEM the lines. As they passed] * Bese there” —not from want of provisions, see ee reese Saya Bion , > Wi because no one can be got to enter « must come together now.’’ These “Ea ren’t, eh? Wite, where did store to sell them. words, and the ominous looks of the | We turn off to go to Minneapolis ti ‘Lhe people generally remained in | cannon, assured me that a serious | last time?” : : the streets in tents and under impro- sea Nea ade S600) —s == ee aaa vised shelters, and camped out to- | sour Sane Mpa at siato jan cot—|(eic Jer band spat as ne ; night, fearing another shock. The | ficial envelope. I then directed it “Oh, yes. Well, you drive out gas works are iniured, and the city | to my sister, and gave it to our sur- | about nine miles and you come to 2 was without light to-night. geon, with the : request to forward it | creek. Just atter you cross this The steeple of the Uniterian in case of my death, or as the “alin creek you strike a piece ot timber, church has tallen The porticos of | Were in the habit of saying, in case | | and a httle bevond that you come to Hiberian hall and main station house | did not “come out.” aclearmg. Right at this cleanng are demolished. There 1s much in- At last the bugle sounded the | you'll find a red school house, and juries to mansions on the east and charge. The long lines surged in | some of the children or the teacher, and out, but no advance was made. Again the bugle rang out on the | still air, and again the ‘lines waver- ed. south battery. The portico ot the Ravenal mansion is down. Hardly ahouse in the city escaped injury and many are so shaken and crack- atheta bard: blow would bring Then suddenly a rider on a white them to the ground. horse burst through the ranks and Two slight shocks of earthquake | rode at the foe. Like an avalanche j have been felt first, at $:35 this morning and one at |°Y®'Y f€@t vanished, and we rode about 1:30 pt m., neither doing any | through the enemy’s ranks, dis- | turther destruction. Not even dur- Persing them night and leit. They ing General Gilmore’s bombard- | had fired one volley and had no time most any you where Minneapolis is, only half a mile turther, You'll know the village when come to shop, a drug s:ore, ee couple o In six me er. ment of the city has there ever been | 0 reload. sucha deplorable state of affairs, Their right was completely cut off he city 1s literally in ruins | trom the main body and surrounded. nd the people are living in open Having no other alternative, they ene around there ar black it: there’s a f saloons—may be pnths."’—Merchant After known will and it’s tell ny way. you ksath Nce and a another | here since the| ¥° tollowed. In the excitement | one there—I eas been by there Travel- Mr. J. E. Bonsal, New Bioumfield, Pa., clerk of the several courts ot Perry Pa,, was afflicted with rheumatism tor move than thirty years, handieds of doliars with cians, and trying every without benefit, he used St. Jacods Onl, wich eitected an entire cure Co., spending erent physi- remedy 1 FOe gaia ot lers, away, | r how ¥ it is 10 put beauty on theskin. Beauty on the skin is Magnolia Balm. fel Ne oe ee eos ee eas | (Continued from last week.) How Watch Cases are Made. Ttisa tac ot not ge nerally known th James Boss’ tain more pe gold cases ¢s has led to tl ure of a very poor grade of solid gold watch ¢ : low in quality, aud d at in qua These case: and a 5 or 6 karat case is often s or 14 karats. It is nore watch case so poor in ¢ at the ? Gold Watch Case reali < aoe n 1 i fi alas these watch cw ve Maa from 43 to 10 1 d for 12 lity soon lose its color, or one so soft lose its shape and fuil letting in dust and dam one so thin that a slich! blow will breal: everoccur. This watch case is not en ment—it has been made nearly th T cold two Ja i years ago, when they first came out, and the good condition yet. One of them is carried by « carpenter, Mr. L. W. Drake, of Hazicton, aud on); shows the wear in one or two places; the other by Mr. Bowman, of Cunningham, Pa.; and I can pro. + | duce one or both of these cases SYLVESTE » | Sent Beent stay t (To be Continued.) ‘ 1 AER EE SCHWENSK & OLDEAKER BOLLE, WO. zag AUVER TIONING Y & CO.,> 27 Park Place and 24-26 Murray Street, New York. Make lowest rates on newspapers in the U.s. OFFER, rt aone-inch advertisernent one tof and Canada. E: lected lis => Sed | DAILIES & WEEKLIES 1 ert a l-ineh adv’t 1 month in our Popular Local Lists ily and weekly newspapers for $5). list y apers are neluded. Send for Catalocue a line of adve quested to send tor e GOLD | Ste adeolutely sure of snug little fortunes, All is Dew. 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Syndicate Block. MISSOURL a: **small talk’? an accomplice in the front seat calls out, “She’s already | gone.”’ To disprove this ilertz raises the covering and the woman] | ; ‘ ' Boots and shoes made to order The jis seen seated. He then steps be- Beebattentseriiceds hind the chair, tin raises the yeil and behold the woman has Shop nerth side ot Square. 49 tf No mechanism is observable and the | ——————-—---- trick is apparently one of th a e oe (UE Babes Pins est simplicity Alter ¢ Maro | mystification of the audienc E tew moments Hertz steps to the wings and immediaiely Hote pears with hi lady that had so mysterious!) | disappeared. A large number ot re on A s j SEWARD A. HASELTINE, PATENT SOLICITOR & ATT’Y AT LAW SPRINGFIELD, MO. Associated at Washington, D.C.) Correspondeas fequested, Lnguiries answered free and prompt a HAVE HEALTH T VIN LIVER MUST BE KEPT IN ORDEP. 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