The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1813-09-16

must e,apse ere the Losses anI injuries sustained can
be repaired. Hundreds of families, heretofore COM
Portable have been reduced to beggary and want.
The Mars priyateer came in dismasted, and five
guns thrown overheard; the RolIa, do. upset and
sunk James & Charlotte, do. dismasted and on
shore Wellesley do. stove To pieces on shore. Ma
ny prize vessels lost. 48 sail went on shore.
BERMUDA, August il.--Never has it de-
yolved upon us TO record an event so disas-
trous and injurious TO the commercial inter-
est, as the gala on "Wednesday last; to give
an adequate description Of its fury and dirciul
consequences is at present utterly impossible !;
indeed, SO extensive is the general injury suss
tained, and such individual distress and ruin
has it occasioned, that TO detail its effects min-
uleIy were a most painful task.
The storm commenced on Tuesday night
and lasted unIil "Wednesday evening; the wind
was from e. N. r. TO S. w.--bnl blew with
most violence when at S. e. and s.
The amount of properly destroyed in ST.
Georges alone, may be es,ima,ed a, zoo, o,oCol.
stcrl. Only $ vessels rode ont the gale in
hat harbor and its wharves aud stores pre-
sent an Understandable and melancholy picture
OF havoc and destruction.
The injury experienced thoughout the
country is very great many houses were part
Iy:pnrooled, and trees every where torn up by
the roots, or twisted of by the wind. On Ire
land, one of the wooden houses was literally
blown away, and the slate and leads OH the
stone houses torn of.
Upwards of so sail Of vessels were driven
on shore but the vessels which arrived here
since the gale did not feel it.
IN THE UNITED STATES.
CHARLEsToN, Aug. 33. Last night most
dreadful gale accompanied with torrents OF
rain visited this city, and continued It's rava-
ges for many hours, the wind at n. e. The
tide, which ought TO have ebbed about half
past 9, continued to flow until nearly IL O.
cock, and rose higher than ever remember
cd, excepting in 1882 and the gale is thought
20 have been more severe than that OF 1904,
and 1911. Ii is difficult TO give the particular
losses susiained,--Of the vessels in the har-
bor, only the L >. schooners Nonsuch and
Carolina, and the Guard Ship, rode out the
storm-aDd the latter had TO cut away her
masts. The rest either foundered at their
anchors, or were driven high and dry on shore.
The Prison-ship ,drif,ed into the mud in Ash
ley river. The privateer Decatur, and her
prizet ths Dominica o, were thrown on Prioleau's
wharf, and much damaged. All the wharves
have sustained damage, and some are nearly
destroyed and with the docks exhibit me.
lonchoIy seehe Of wrecks Of vessels, boats,
scantling, and goods Of various kinds. The
cellars OF the ware -hosscs were mostly filled
with water,and much property has unquestion-
ably been lost the,cin. Some houses were
unroofed, and chimries, fences and trees
thrown down, but no lives, as we have heard,
have been lost.
The public and individuals experience a
heavy loss in the destruction oi about 1900
feet of the New. Bridge oversAshlcy river,
which has lately been erected at an expence
ct nearly $4,000 dollars great proportion
OF the stock Of which is owned i'll this city.
The damage is estimated at ONE MILLION
OF Dollars. 6. But il is ever the case, that
losses by disasters Of this kfrd, are ovcrrated
and sometimes greatly exaggerated
We expect distressing accounts from the
seaboard that the crops, especially near the
shore, have been nearly ruined.
AT For, Johnson Much injury has been
experienced; part of the battery is under
mined, as are also the backsmith's shop and
bake-hovse f; the Soldiers barracks are partly
destroyed; the wharf washed away, and muc h
other injury done. The whole garrison was
overflowed, but no lives lost,
On Sullivan's Island.--As was feared, the
storm has proved most awfully destructive.
All the houses in the yinoini,y OF the Cove
have been demolished and there can have
been buI very small part ii any, of the island,
which has not been covered with water.-lt
was infinitely distressing to hear the shrieks
ofthc sufferers, whose houses had been swept
away, and who were struggling for life with
the winds and waves driving them, they knew
not whittier. The extreme darkness Of the
night rendered it almost impossible TO afford
any assistance TO the unhappy sufferers, from
those who we're SO fortunate as TO be compar-
atively secure. And the storm progressed
with such rapili,y, that many who were on
their way 10 seek refuge in Fort Moultrie,
were compelled to desist, and were almost
sacrificed in the attempt. There were how
ever, a number of Ladies who gained the Fort