American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-10-18

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Hall has been considerably injured in the roof ant
The north sashes driven in Not one place of wor-
ship has escaped the indiscriminale fury of the
storm The Theatre has been unslated and other.
wise injured. The States and roof of the Jail and
work house were destroyed and the buildings other
wise injured.
i In Mazycborough, we learn that Mr.. Jones, (the
mail conractor) suffered very seriously. His large
barn, his whole range Of stabes all his negro houses
and the chimnies of his dwelling house, were com
i pleteiy DESTROYED.
4 The new house of Mr.. Mathews, in Christ
Church Parish, opposite Gadsden's wharf, was
| blown down.
The cotton house and the South Range of the
Tobacco Inspection, Frustrated.
On the plantation of Thomas Hunt Esq. in Christ
church Parish, the damage has been very conside-
rabe. The dwelling much injured, one of the
chimnies blown down, the kitchen entirely destroy
ed, the cotton house, gin. &c. oversrers house, sta
BILE and negro house blown down. The crop, except
the rice in the barn yard, materially inlured-every
fence on the plantation laid PROSTATE, but fortunate
ly no lives lost.
| The large cotton house of John White, ESQ., in
Christ Church Parish with all his out houses, are
blown down.
| Mr.. Barksdale's overseers' house, negro houses
and out buildings, in Christ Church Parish are all
| blown away.
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drills Point
| AS tar as we can learn, the crops Of rice, corn
and cotton, have been materially injured. SOME ut
Il etly annhated.
In all there has been about IS deaths in Charles
ton and on SulIivan's Island.
| The principal sufferers were those whose proper
~ lay in the north western and northern envlrons.
Several hne large houses, and the mills in that di-
recion were more or less injured.
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ed at 100000 dollars.
THE GALE AT GEORGETOWN, S. C.
Georgetown, Oct. alt is our painful duty to
detail the circumstances of that awful dspensaton
with which the omnipotent disposer of human events
mas Ceen pleased in his inscrutable wisdom, to visit
this devoted village. With feelings still strongly
excited by those dreadful occurrences which 1t was
SO lately his lot to witness, we will not attempt to do
more, at present, than to furnish the outlines Of the
hear-rending scenes of this eventul night.
AT the close oil the day there heavy shower
from the Z. accompanied by some wind, after
which the weather appeared better between 10 and
III O'Clock, however, we had squall from the N.
| L. from which quarter the wind continued 10 blow
high till about IL, when We experienced another
more violent squat from about L. the mercury
about this hour had risen to 70, and continued to
rise for some time after.-From IL the wind con-
tnued gradually to chat ls to the S. and 5. in
creasng III violence as il shifted from 5. Z. It
blew with irghttul and unprecedented violence !;
most OF the injury caused by The wind must have
occurred about O'Clock in the morning and while
II blew from this quarter.
AS the time OF high water had been about o.
clock in the evening the inhabitants apprehended no
danger from the tide, as from the violence OF the
gale II was presumed that it could not continue till
The period oil the succeeding high water-in this ex
peclaton, however, 1t pleased the Almighty to dis
appoint them, and by the awful result to prove how
ailacous are all human charlottesville tide could
have ebbed very little, If at ALL when the waters re-
turned with irresistible violence, and between AND
O'Clock, IN the morning, had reached height lar
exceeding that in the great gale Of 1904 and we be-
lieve OF any other tide within the memory of the
oldest inhabitants very small proportion indeed
of the inhabited part of the Island remained above
the ocean. | he gale began to subsde we believe
about halt past O'Clock, the wind blew from the S.
w. 1t was oppressivey warm during the gale, and
many OF those luminous bodies, meteors unusual
IN our fall gales, passed near the surface Of the
earth.
| The gale was of shorter duration and accompani-
ed by less rain than usual
| We hasten to give brief account of the injuries
sustained in the different dwellings,.
| Here follows list OF upwards of 80 houses more
or less injured, or entirely destroyed.
4 II lie RoSa-Building destroyed and carried away
10y the water-this benevolent, industrious and hon
est man, and negro lad, the only inhabitants, are
Il both lost.
Moses Fort Every out building destroyed--the
dwelling house thrown from its foundation, shatter-
ed and removed some distance; the azzas and
sheds blrown away. In this house there were five
deaths. to wiz: Mrs. Hannah Botsford, the rect oil
the late Rev. Edmund Botsford-Miss Scott the
daughter OF David Scott, and three servants.
/ DR.. L. .Nyers-Every building torn to pieces by
the sea, and every veslige of them destroyed and
this respectable and worthy man with every member
OF his family drowned. In this house fifteen lives