The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23.

Ar length we have positive information about
the great hurricane that has devastated St.
Thomas and the neighbouring islands. The
steamer Douro, about whose safety a natural
anxiety had been felt, has arrived with tolerably
full accounts of the storm that she herself was
fortunate enough to escape. The hurricane ap-
pears to have exceeded in violence anything
that had previously been experienced oven in
that region of tempests, and the Douro left
at St. Thomas a scene of fearful desolation.
About eighty vessels had been sunk or blown
ashore, and the loss of life at St. Thomas, includ-
ing, in that number the passengers and crew of the
unfortunate Rhone, is believed to amount to five
hundred persons. The town itself has been to a
great extent destroyed, and while the loss of life
and property is probably greater in connection with
the shipping disasters, the effect of the hurricane
upon the town illustrates in a more striking manner
the tremendous force of the storm. Whole houses
were lifted bodily from their foundations, and car-
ried by the force of the wind to new sites; even
solid stone-built houses were dashed against each
other by the fury of the hurricane. Heavy articles
of furniture flew about in the air like so many par-
ticles of dust ; slabs of marble, pianofortes, and
even an iron anchor, are known to have been car-
ried by the wind considerable distances. Captain
Vr.say writes from St. Thomas :—" All the
" islands appear as if fire had passed over them—
" the town of St. Thomas looks exactly as if an
" explosion had taken place, and the streets
" are filled with tiles, trees, and rubbish. The
" harbour is full of wrecks." These instances
show us the power of the storm far better than
any scientific description could do, and fully pre-
pare us for the heavy loss of life and property
occasioned by it.

The storm broke over St. Thomas about noon
on the 29th of last month. Few of the usual
forewarnings of a severe storm had been ob-
served, and the hurricane found the people of the
town and the ships in the harbour quite unpre-
pared for anything of the kind. At Peter
Island, however, twenty miles from St. Thomas,
where the Rhone and the Conway lay, and
where the storm broke an hour earlier, the usual
barometric indications of a coming storm were
observed about two hours before the hurricane
reached them. Some of the accounts from St.
Thomas mention that just as the storm broke one
or more shocks of earthquake were felt,
and it is for scientific men to say whether
the volcanic influence may have bad any
effect in enfeebling the barometric indications
that usually precede such • storm. Suddenly
the hurricane burst upon the town from the north-
west. It brought with it so dense a cloud of
spray and rain that objects twenty yards off be-
came invisible, and it may readily be imagined
how much the darkness must have added to the
difficulties of the occasion. This storm raged with
all its fury for fifty minutes, till at 1 o'clock the
wind suddenly fell. It was only a temporary lull,
however, for half an hour later the hurricane
burst forth again with even more terrible strength
from the opposite direction. This change of direc-
tion, accompanied as it was by increased fury,
had a fatal effect upon the shipping in the harbour.
Vessels that had ridden out the north-wester were
torn from their anchorage and driven to pieces
or sunk by the south-easter. The second storm
lasted for about two hours, and it was it that did
the greater portion of the mischief reported. At
four o'clock people began to look round them, to
pick up the dead, and to look for habitations
and landmarks that had been carried
bodily away. 1:p to the time the Douro
left, between two and three hundred bodies had
been recovered from the sea, and more were con-
stantly being found on the beach.
The steamer Rhone had left St. Thomas for