The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1772-10-15

5touHu Wy .ehS scv.si ~uu iSt"S'SS 'oiS~sSs
nothing but dtit,uefion and DEDICATION
wherever you caR your eyes Macy poor
widows with feven or eight and Tome with
/. ten children, have nothing now to ih=lter
them from the inclement fky AID TO add
to their diRrels, we are without any kind
of proviiions except Irifh beef. Some few
of the inhsbi ants who by accident had
FIVE or fix barrels of Aour by them, immedi-
ateiy had il baked, in order to diltribute it
among the very poor, to keep their children
from perifhng. Never was 70 much DIFF
trels feen before in this pace the lament
able and hungry cry Of naked children,
running through the Rrcets, begging for
fufenance, was difre6ing to humanity (!
our humane and good Governor has pur-
chafed parcel of beef to diitribute among
the poor who have no hing left to keeFthem
from perihmg, and they are obliged to
take fanauary in the Englifh Church,
which has not loft above one quarter Of its
root that of the Dutch Church having
blown into the fea Upon the Bay our
fufsrings were fmall, comparatively ipeak-
ing of.thofe upon the Hill, not above ten
or ccz:n houies were uncapt, or blown
down but in the night, upon the ceailng
of the wind, we had iuch deluges Of rain
that the water empted itlelf from the Hill
on TIE Bay, and brought down 70 much
rubbifh with it, that next morning we
found all our Rreets choaked up with dirt,
and many perlons were obliged, in or!er
to get out other houies, to come through
the upper Rory windows. Thank God it
happened in the day, otherwile many lives
would have been loft as yet we have not
heard of above tenor twelve people on
fhorc, but we have Teen many corps drove
up by the Tea, fuppofed to belong to the
veiIcls that were loft. Not Iels than 400
houles are blown down on the Hill, or rem
dered untenantabe, and many of the pro-
prietors are 70 poor, as not tobe able to re-
build again. Our Secretary (Mr. De
GRAFT is very great fuffcrer, all bis
dwelling and out houles are down, and he
narrowly efcapsd with his life, after loiing
all his furniture and even his private pa
pefs IL is fuppofsd that his lois cannot be
lefs than 6xty thoufand pieces Of eight, and
that of the Hand in general, to at leaf one
million of pieces of eight. Now judge you
of our fituation amidR all this diGrefs, to
be without bread Of any kind, no -four nor
corn in the iland, the yams and caaava de-
&royed, and what few barrels of bread wee
CiiNbe iiland (About forty in alI) fold at
-tske0e dollars and equally attributed among
tks inhabitants. .s.s.
F. CHRIsTIANsrRD, [St. Crax] SEPT.
3. On Monday night laR, blew the
mott violent hurricane that has ever been
known here, or, perhaps in any iiand in
the memory Of man. Words are wanting
to deicribe the horrors of the night the
dreadful roar Of raging winds and waves;
the crulh Of falling buildings; the cries and
groans of the luferers the dying and
wounded, together with nfold darkness,
made viiible only by the meteors, which,
like balls of fire Rimmed along the hills,
formed a mott terrible and mott dreadful
fcene. When morning came, the difmal
effects ofits fury were feen in every freei,
and particularly on the Fiiiug ground, where
fcarce houle is laved, 70 that nearly one
half of the houfes in this place were feen
thrown down or greatly damaged. which,
with the fight of the feveral dead bodies, FL
led every face with afonifhment. All the
yeGels in the harbour, broke from their
moorings and were drove on ihoTe, where
they remain, NOT Of them many yards On
dry land. Accounts from the country are
yet worfe il Pofible, nearly all the dwelling
houies, and every negro houie on the plan-
tations fwept away by the'violence Of the
gale and from Frederickfi&d we hear, there
are but three houfes left Handing. Ii is re-
markable, that the water in almoR every
BATH is become braekifh. At prefent cannot
give an exaa account of the unhappy perlons
who were killed, as every hour comes load
ed with its difmal tale.
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