The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1813-09-07

schooner & sloop sunk.
PFofe0n's >. do. do. do. |
sloop on the wharf, Decatur and Do
:. minica, much injured.
Lofhrof's wharf much injured. Ship
Belle much injured, prize ship London
Trader, also sloop Concord on the
wharf.
Notes wharf much injured brig Miner
va, bowsprit gone.
FitzSimonS' wharf injured head gone
Spanish ship injured.
Williams fPharf-Ship Retrieve on Bay
street-a schooner on the Wharf.
Pritchard e Hdmittoa's Whar/--no da-
mage, Blacksmith's shop blown down
schooner on thr wharf.
Mey's ". Wharf injured some schoon-
er Plough. Boy sunk.
Prifehard q Knor's Wharf-Ship Pho.
nix sunk, Con- merce, Florida & Morn
ing Star. driven over the Wharf
Wharf injured materially. Canton sunk
TO her anchors.
.'ohnson's wharf entirely gone Spanish
schooner sunk. A schooner up against
Laureuce's fence.
LangstaFs wharf much injured, Prus-
sian ship driven from her mornings, up
to Halves high and dry.
Carts wharf, much injured.
MARSHES wharf head gone, Gadsden's
schooner on the wharf.
Pritchard e Shrezvs6ery's wharf not in
jured. Two frames down.
Smiths wharf injured ship Sally, shin
Juno, and ship -; brig Marear-
e, and Olivia. and schooner high and
dry.
Guard Shif-Mast unshipped and cast
away-water casks blown overheard Al
SO two guns and carriages. One schooner
on Pinkney's Marsh One three masted do
on Fort johnson. One vessel newly repair
ed on Fort Ref. A schooner OIL shore at
Moultrie's.
The prison ship driven from her moor
ings in Cooper river lies high and dry on
James Island. About one half of the New
bridge on Ashly river carried away.
Investigator.
THE GALE, August 80.
Which came on Friday afternoon last,
about half past 10 o'clock, when it was at
its height and blew with unequalled fury for
some time, when it suddenly changed to the
North and from thence to the North w est.
and began to hull about O'Clock. The
scene exhibited on Saturday morning was
such as we have never before witnessed.
The wharves particularly, offered to the
view but one continued scene of detruction !;
from D'Oyley's, at the lower end of the city
to Langstaf's, at the upper, they exhibited
nothing but masses Of timber which but the
day before formed the principal part of
them, now separated from the different
abutments and floated in some instances
nearly as high as East Bay street, together
with wood and lumber of every description
some vessels were sunk and others thrown
on the wharves. The damage done to the
wharf property, from the best information
we can collect, may be fairly estimated at
100000
Owing to the existing state of things,
there was but little shipping in port, what
there was, has suffered severely. The u.
S. schooners Nonsuch and Carolina rode
out the gale uninjured. Produce and mer.
chandiZe generally in the stores on the
wharyes, has received considerable damage
how much, cannot be ascertained, but we
think we are rather, under than over the
amount, when we state the damage done the
shipping, merchandise, stores, houses, fen
ces, gardens, &c. &c. within the city, at
800 600.
BY far the heaviest loss sustained by any
individual or company has fallen upon the
BADGE COMPANY in the destruction of
their Bridge, about 400 yards of which was
carried away--their loss exceeds 500 900.
Four Negroes belonging to MIR. James
Brown were washed from a raft and drown
Gu VIC nave HOt ncdtu W any lives J'SI I'D
the city. The tide rose higher on this oc
casion by eleven or twelve inches, than in
the gale of 1904. From
SULLIVAN'S ISLAND
We learn that the situation Of the inhabi-
tants was distressing to a degree. How
many lives were lost. we have not been
able to learn, but it is ascertained there
were from fourteen to twenty--among them,
FIVE young women out of six, who were in
one house their names we have not learn
ed; and seven or eight negroes. Also, a
number of houses destroyed among them
the one occupied by Mrs. CHAMBERS, att
the landing. She was fortunately in town,
having attempted to so down, but was eorn-
PEELED to put back from the badness of the
weather. She lost her furniture, clothing,
&c. Since the above was in type we have |
learnt that nineteen dead bodies have AREA |
dy been found
From the plantations on the coast we
have learnt nothing particular, but much is
TO be feared that the crops about George
town, South and North Saxtee Rivers, &c |
have been greatly injured if NOT totally lost
We have heard some planters express al
opinion that there viii b. FIVE thousand tier
ces Of rice lost, besides cotton and other arti
ciss.