Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1811-09-27

this occasioA, to lament the loss of y.ral
valuable lives.
The Tornado appears TO have been about
| 100 Yards ia width-after il had Frustrated
The flag staff on Fort Mechanic, unroofed
the house within the Enclosure of that fott,
thrown down the bIacksm,th's shop CONT
| guous to it, and unroofed all the houses
immediately adjoining the fort, It crossed
| over to Lynch's Lane, where it unrcoied
several houses IRON thence it proceeded
across Chureh.sueet-continued, to Meet.
ing street, where several houses were un-
rooted, particularly the large new brick
house ST Nathaniel Russell, Esq. whose
| loss in furniture, &c. cannot be iess than
10000 dollars; from Meeting-street, it
crossed to Tradd-street, where large
| three story wooden house on the south side,
about half way between Meeting, and King
streets, was blown over, which crushed
two adjoining houses in its fall /; and most
of the houses on both sides of the street, to
the corner of King street were unroofed.
or much shattered. It passed up King
street, nearly to Broad.street, unroo6ng
and shattering several houses in its pro.
gress, until it reached Broad-stree sthere,
the house of DR.. Alexander Baron, situat-
ed at the northwest corner of Orange. street
1 and the venerable mansion of the late DR..
Chandler, on the opposite corner, were
very roughly handled the latter being old
and weak, was completely wrenched to
pieces on the opposite side of Broad
street, the premises lately purchased By
the St. Andrews Society, and occupied by
MIR. Henry Inglesby the mansion of the
late General Macpherson, and some other
buildings, were either unroofed or much
damaged passing thro' Vaux-HaA Gar
| den, 1t crossed over Queen street, near to
the corner of Friend.street, and shattering
several houses in its progress, it went on
to the corner of Magazine and Mazyek
streets two or three small houses fronting
on the former of these streets, were blown
down; and in the progress of the Tornado
up Mazyck-street, several houses were un.
rooted, or otherwise much damaged One
or two houses were PROSTATE d on Beaufa,n
street. After leaving Beautan. street, the
houses being less compactlv situated, the
marks of its ravages are not SO distinctly TO
be traced, though it appears to have lost
nothing of its violence. he mansion.
house of the Hon Judge Desaussure, was
violently assailed, and suffered very con.
| siderably /; one of the chimnies was thrown
down and a part Of the family, who were
at The time in an upper room of the house
we're precipitared with the falling bricks
throug h Swo floors into the kitchen. Pro.
videntlally no lives were lost, excepting
that of negro girl Several other houses
10 the outskirts of the city, were either
unroofed or much injured and we also
understand that much injury has been sus-
tanned in the village of Islington, but we
were unable last evening to obain any fur
thes particulars
The most painful part of our duty yetre.
msins--lt is to record the deaths which
have been occasioned by this dreadful dis.
sster--they are, so far as has come to our
knowledge, as follows:
i Miss Margaret Cozzens, aged twenty
one years killed in house adjoining Fort
Mechanic.
| Doctor Conton, native of France |; a
worthy man Killed by the falling of his
house in Beaufaln street.
| Mr.. Peterson, native of Germany, gro.
Ger, at the corner of Magazine and Mazyek.
| streets.
A free mulatto man, in Church. street
continued.
A French mulatto girl, in King.street
| Two mulatto children, either killed or
drowned, by the falling of small wooden
house, which was blown into the mill pond
at Cannon's Bridge.
A negro man, belonging to Mr.. Dener,
Mazyek-street.
! We have also heard of two or three other
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