Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-10-17

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From the Charleston Courier.
DREADFUL HURRICANE.
Charleston was visited or Friday night
by most tremendous hurricane or lorna
do, which spread desolation through the
city. For some days previous, the unset
tied state of the weather had evidently
portended storm. In the early par! OF
that evening il was nearly calm, wlthlight
rain.S About 10 O'Clock. a breeze sprung
up atm. z. which had increased by IL, to
pretty heavy blow. At l2, it had assn
med the desolating power of West India
Hurricane, and at O'Clock was at its ex-
IRENE height, having come round by the
north, from N. E. to N. w. at which lat.
ter point we encountered itgreatest fury.
Shortly after o'clock, it began to abate
in violence, and by was again perfect
calm.
The loss otproperty by this disaster has
been very great--there is scarcely house
which was covered either with slate or tile,
that has escaped without injury; many
have been entirely -unroofeG.-SeveraI
wooden houses, sundry sheds, carriage
houses. and fences, besides numerous
chimneys, were blown down most OF
the ornamental and fruit trees were pros
trated with the ground. Goods and mer-
chandse of every description, and to an
incalculable amount, have been partially
damaged, or entirely ruined, in the stores
which were unrooied II is however, i'm
possible. to form any thing like correct
estimate of The value OF property thus in
jured or destroyed, The destruction in
window glass is immense. The rain pour
ed down necessarily during the coniiuance
OF the gale.
Great ianxiety prevails for the fate OF
those vessels which may have been upon
our coast; for although the wind, during
its greatest violence, was from off the
shore, yet so irresistible was its fury, that
great damage il IS TO be feared, must have
been experienced. The .schr. Fame arr-
we'd here on Saturday evening, toek the
gale off Stone, and was obliged TO run be-
fore it for three hours; by doing SO she
weatnered the storm.
The wharves have escaped with but lit
tie comparative injury--the damage they
have sustained, having been principally
occasioned by the chatting OF the vessels
against them, or tearing up the posts when
forced away by the violence of the gale.
Fortunately, it was at the time Of low wa
Ter when the gale was a, its height; and
as 1t terminated with the wind OF shore,
the next food tide was not unusually high.
Ii would be an endless task 10 eDumer-
ale all the dwelling houses which have
been seriously or partially injured-some
of them will be named
The Custom sHouse (late ExchaDge)
suffered materially in the roof and win
dows and one OF the chimneys is blown
down.
The Orphan House and the Chapel at
tached TO it, are considerably injured.
The Tan Yard and building belonging
to Mr.. Daniel Cruicksbanks, The work
shop Of Mr.. Frederick Wesner, and the
carriage house and stables OF Mrs. Carroll
in Boundary street, are blown down.
large two story wooden house, so
Bridge street nearly finished, belonging to
Dr. p. Simpson, was blown down'
The Livery Stables al the upper end of
Queen street were unrooied, and one end
blown out.
On Marsh's Whar:s, his work shop is TO-
tally destroyed, A new dwelling house
was unrooted ard a chimney blown down.
The Blast Furnace is overthrown, MIR.
Fordham's new two story wooden house
is entirely blown down, and other materi-
al ,injury at the same wharf has been sus-
tanned.
There were many hair breadth escapes
from the falling OF cbimnies, which, in Sc
vera instances, went down through the
roofs, and filed bed-chambers, sc. with
masses of bricks.
But the most melancholy part Of our duty,
on this heart rendiDg occasion, remains to
be performed-many valuable lives have
been lost--some by the falling of houses,
and others on board the shipping and |
small craft in The harbor. Reports are va
rious as TO the losses in the harbor, but we
enumerate them all-such deaths |
as have come to our knowledge are men
toned.
The awful fate Of Mrs. Morris and Mrs.
Middleton is the subject of universal re-