Show i I CHARLESTON LATEST The Channels and Bar Not I Affected by the Earthquake I I I DAMAGES TO LIGHTHOUSES A Great Conflagration in Michigan Which Burns < rp millions of Lumber A Plot to Assassinate Prince Alexander Averted I Strange Effects of the Earthquake WASHINGTON September 4The Hydrographic Hydro-graphic office has received a letter from Cap tain Leo Yoegel of the steamer City of Palatka briefly describing the effects of the earthquake at sea He had just left Charleston Charles-ton and was about twelve miles off the harbor har-bor of Port Royal in eight and a half fathoms where he experienced a terrible rumbling sensation which lasted one and a half minutes There had been quite a heavy sea from the southeast but when the rumbling rum-bling began the wave motion ceased and the waters remained perfectly calm until the noise came to an end when a swelljwas again manifest The wina rKa sautheasJ and light weather cloudy barometer SOOlf thermometer SO The sensation Captain Voegel says resembled that upon a ship scraping a pebbly bottom The ships vibrations vibra-tions were very great The lighthouseboard received a report from Charleston to the effect ef-fect that the main tower on Harris Island light is cracked near the third landing from the ground and that the floor in the watch room upon which the lens rest is loosened Cape Romain light and tower have not been seen since the earthquake and are supposed to be all right The lens at the I Bulls Bay lighthouse has been thrown off its pedestal A curious effect of the earthquake has been discovered in the Signal I Sig-nal Office A selfregistering wind vane I shows a horizontal mark preceding and subsequent sub-sequent to the shaking denoting a mild steady almost invariable breeze but for thirty or forty seconds a most violent shaking shak-ing The marks indicate that the pencil point was moved up and down the paper many times and with great rapidity The explanation of this phenomena is difficult to reach This is the only instrument at the Signal Sig-nal Office which seems to have been affected by the earthquake Some anxiety felt with regard to the possible effect of the earthquake earth-quake at the Bermudas The islands lie directly di-rectly in what is now supposed to have been the path of the most violent agitation and their physical features are such = as to warrant war-rant fear that they may have experienced a severe disaster |