



150 PROCEEDrNGS OF THE [Julj, 1887. 



wroiiglvt, there is no otlier portion of the City of equal area wMcli has suffered 

 so heavily. 



A careful survey has shown that of all the buildings with porches or porticos, 

 those facing the North, as St. Mary's Church, Hasell St., the North porch of 

 St. Philip's Church, Church St., the old High School buUduig, Society St., 

 the ' Fire Proof ' Building, Chalmers St. , and the Wentworth St. Lutheran 

 Church, and those facing West, as St. Johns Lutheran Church, Archdale St., 

 the U. S. Custom Hoiise, South Carolina Society's Hall, Meeting St. , Charles- 

 ton Hotel, Synagogues, Hasell and St. Phihp's Sts., St. Paul's Church, Com- 

 ing St., St. Mark's Church, Thomas St. and St. John's Chapel, Hampstead, 

 have either wholly escaped injury or been comparatively shghtly damaged, the 

 most notable exceptions being the Main Police Station, Broad St., facing 

 North, and the West porch of St. Philip's Church, St. Michael's Church, and 

 Market Hall, facing West. 



Of those facing East, those of the Hibernian Hall, Meeting St., and Mr. 

 William Bavenel's residence, on East Battery, have been entu'ely destroyed, 

 and the First Baptist C/hurch, Chm-ch St., Fii'st Presbyterian Church, Meet- 

 ing St., and Bethel Church, Pitt St., have been very seriously hurt. The 

 First National Bank, East Bay, and Westminster Church, Meeting St., being 

 the only ones escaping. 



Of those facing South, that of the Medical College, was totally destroyed, 

 and the College of Charleston, St. Philip's Church South Porch, and the City 

 (Roper) Hospital, very badly injured. Spring St. Methodist Church, Cen- 

 tenary Church, Wentworth St., and Gen. Seigiing's residence. East Battery, 

 alone escaping great damage. 



Of the Towers and Spires of the City, the S. E. angle of the upper portion of 

 the masonry of St. Philip's steeple was destroyed ; the Tower of the County Jail 

 was injured in the S. E. angle in the same manner, and the S. E. Tower of the 

 K,op3r Hospital, the Tower of the Unitarian Church, and the statue of Charity 

 surmounting the Dome of the Orphan's House, were thrown over in the same 

 general Southeasterly direction ; the remaining towers of the City were badly 

 cracked and otherwise seriously iujui'ed but no portion of any of them was 

 thrown down. 



Of 130 frame dwellings on brick foundations of varying heights, examined 

 by me, 97 i^er cent have the foundations fractured on the South side and S. E. 

 angle, the foundations being, in many instances, otherwise but little disturbed. 

 One of these houses was thrown off of its foundation towards the South. 



No record was kept of the direction in which chimnies fell, as I did not think 

 that any reliable data could be so obtained, it being impossible to visit private 

 enclosures, and the facts could not be ascertained from the streets, and besides 

 this, large numbers of them, which were broken off but did not fall, were 

 speedily thrown down by the owners or occupants of the builduigs, to avert 

 danger or additional disaster. 



The only evidence of the height of <he waves which I have noted was shown 

 by the condition of the large warehouse of the New York and Charleston Ware- 

 house and Navigation Co., at their wharf on Cooper River, which is built upon 



