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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1886
Page
4
A powerful Charleston quake and aftershocks devastate the city on the night of the 31st, wounding and killing dozens. Fires break out as streets fill with debris. trains halted and communications severed leaving the city isolated and residents fleeing to open spaces.
Charleston is South Carolina’s chief city on the Southern Atlantic coast. It sits on a peninsula between the Ashley and Cooper rivers with a harbor guarded by Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie. The White Point Garden area, Citadel, City Hall, and historic churches anchor the city, which totals about 50 000 residents. Recent earthquakes caused shocks that damaged buildings, paralyzed business, and forced stores to close.
Amid widespread ruin in Charleston, authorities report dozens dead from shock and exposure. Prominent families suffer as hundreds lose homes. total property loss estimated at 15 to 21 million dollars with half the value wiped out. Aid pours in from across the country, camps set up in Battery Park and Brion Square as relief efforts begin.
A collage of baseball notes detailing hits by Louisville players, costs for a Philadelphia grand stand, and league quirks. Highlights include Osama Richardson’s two home runs in a game, Hines’s nine homers, and various contract and salary remarks across Washington, Boston, Chicago, and other teams.
A devastating blaze at a Willamport and North Branch Rail road shanty in North Mond Sullivan County near Hughesville Penn July 31 left seven Hungarian workers dead and fifteen others escaping. The two story building burned after a cook stove ignited the floor setting off a rapid fire that trapped occupants on the upper levels. Coroner's inquest returned no verdict of accidental death and the bodies were moved to Bonestown for burial.
A Boston area firm, LATER NEWS, CLoouruan & BiNonan, failed for about $1,000,000. Fire in the Erie Railroad yard at Jersey City destroyed $125,000 of property. A Nebraska bridegroom, Lior M. Burorst, leaped from a train near Reading,Penn., in a presumed suicide amid his bride. he was said insane.
A jumble of remarks on Henry Ward Beecher lecturing in Ireland next winter, Millard Fillmore’s brother still alive in Indians, six poets in the British House of Lords led by Tennyson, French scientist Caroneer honored for centenary work, Langworthy’s New York marriage possibility, a Maryland man wearing a necknut to ward off danger, Kinshin Japan missionary training at Bangor Theological School, Mrs Cleveland’s prolific letter writing, praise for Bishop Whipple, Portugal’s king holidaying in Central Europe, Saran Winnesuchega Indian educator, recent deaths among public leaders and Janes Campbell postmaster general in Pennsylvania, Dan Masose New York Collector, and a New York ferry incident with a man shot and dropped into a river. Generals Logan and Alger in California admired logs and lumber potential with $50.41 monthly prospects.
The Mohawk boy known as Smoke Johnson died at his residence on the Brantford reserve in Ontario. He was four years old, reportedly the oldest Mohawk child, and it is noted he fought in the American War of 1912 according to local legend.
M von Keller & Co successors to Keller Ruhl at the Old Cloth House New York City furnish to the Merchant Tailoring trade nationwide complete Wodens season sample collections. They notify when styles sell out so tailors know which samples remain available and may send samples free of charge upon request.
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