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Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
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Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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left. Where a house chancedto be left standing, it was filled with mud and slime to thethird story, while trees, broken timbers and debris was piled upto the second story. Not a house was fit for occupancy. Deadbodies were found in cellars, and in some dwellings horses hadbeen forced into the rooms by the rushing waters, and lay there 334 EARTHQUAKE AT CHARLESTON. putrefying. They all fared alike. A few citizens were heldprisoners in their frame houses, and floated over two miles toa place of safety, but these fortunate ones were the exception. Medicines, clothing, money and food were liberally pouredinto the unfortunate region. Men and women from all overthe country offered their services to care for the living and thedead. The dam whose bursting caused this awful loss of life wasvery carelessly constructed, and had no stone work in its make-up. Indeed, it might well be called a vast embankment ofearth. EARTHQUAKE AT CHARLESTON.Charleston, South Carolina, seems to have more than her
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EARTHQUAKE AT CHARLESTON. share of misfortunes. This thought occurred to me when thepapers all over the country on the morning of September ist, EARTHQUAKE AT CHARLESTOWN. 335 1886, gave to the world an account of that dreaded convulsionknown as an earthquake, which had taken place the night pre-vious, just as the hour for retiring had come. The first inti-mation that the Signal Service Bureau at Washington city hadof this catastrophe was only a surmise. They knew that some-thing was wrong, for communication was not to be had. All thetelegraph wires were suddenly cut off. Without a momentswarning the city had been shocked and rent to its very foun-dation. Hardly a building escaped injury and almost a thirdof the city was in half or total ruins. The whole Atlantic coastwas more or less affected, and for leagues from the shore theocean was thrown in a turmoil. People fled from the tottering houses to the parks and publicsquares, where they erected tents and remained for weeks, afraidto

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