Complex sentence: Congress appropriated $12,000 for a second brick tower lighthouse for the cape which was finally finished in November of 1855, but it was destroyed on August 30,1856, when another hurricane struck Cape San Blas.
Split into simpler sentences: Congress appropriated $12,000 for a second brick tower lighthouse for the cape which was finally finished until November of 1855. On August 30,1856, another hurricane struck Cape San Blas.