The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-10-18
THE HURRICANE:

| Of Dubourdieu's, have been lost, as was
the general impression. Their houses
were. destroyed, but fortunately none of
the inmates received any material injury
The beacon to designate the ship chan.
mel over the bar to vessels coming in has
been carried away and the light house
has suffered such essential injury that the
lights cannot be shown for some DAYS.
Capt Clark, with two negroes, of the
packet boat Eagle, has been drowned,
and his packet upset. A negro fellow
who chung 10 the keel Of the boat, states
that captain CLARK, finding it impossible to
come into the wharf with security, said
nc would swing round to South Bay. He
has not since been seen.
Mr.. Balls sloop broke from the wharf,
and three hands have been drowned.-
The sloop after much injury, has been
preserved.
Near the Panchetta, on the marsh op-
positeG adsden's wharf.-the Spanish schoo-
| ner Rosalie, which had been finished in
her repairs, ran on shore, and now covers
another smaller vessel.
Upwards of 100 dwelling houses in this
) city have been unroofec, and about 1000
have been rendered pervious to the rain,
by the loss Of tiles or stating.
Among the public buildings, the beat
tiful city hall has been considerably iDju-
| red in the roof, and the north sashes dri-,
ven in. Not one place of worship has
escaped the indiscriminate fury OF the
storm. The theatre has been unslatcd
and otherwise injured. The states anG
roof of the Jail and work house were de-
stroyed and the buildings otherwise iDju-
red.
| The principal sufferers were those
whose property lay in the north western
and northern environs. Several fie
large houses, and the mills in that direc-
ton were more or less injured.
The Camden Gazette Of the Cd states,
that the rivers and creeks were impassa.
BILE. The cotton and corn crops on the
! river had sustained considerable injury -
The road between that place and Pee
Dee was so INSTRUCTED by the trees tina,
the stage could not get along.
, Extract of letter from Long Bay, Waccamaw,
II dated Sunday, 29th ult.
RI tsNo doubt you must have felt in
: Charleston the storm Of the 9Th. To
describe the horrors Of our situation is ut
terly impossible. You cannot conceiv e
of any thing more doleful. Between IL
and l o'clock, the wind became very
e high we got up, secured the doors and
e windows as well as we could--but the
wind increased every moment, and we
e soon perceived that it was a hurricane,
more violent than any we ever before wit
messed. Still we felt secure but con-
: ceive the agony, the terror that seized US,
J. upon hearing the tremendous crash OF
n the roof falling in, and both piazzas torn
y away the first impulse was to run out,
/, but where could we run to The water
/ was upwards of three feet deep, at the
!, back piazza, and in the front the waves
was breaking over the hill on which our
house stood. We stayed in the house
until it appeared TO be giving away when
we rushed GU, upon the Sand Hills, bu.
the wind was so violent it was with diff
Guilty we could stand our ground-after a
4 while when the wind had abate d little,
we got into an out house, where we re.
manned until morning. The tide fell "a
bout 5 o'clock-had it continued to rise
one hour longer the whole island must
have been swept away. Mr.. Huger's
establishment is SO completely broken up,
that they have been obliged to remove to
the river. Poor Mr.. Myers's body and
the bodies of several black children have
hecn washed up on the beach"
Extract of 4 letter from MIR. Jones, the mail
Il contractor, to L. w. Bacot, Esq. Post Master
\ in this city, dated 80 Nile Houses 9th October.
"lf you viii ssnd ON the northern mali
every other day, will have il conveyed
10 the end of my line. wish j. com
mcnced ON Tuesday (this day. and for
wardcd at nine O'Clock, until the roads
are cleared of their obstructions, which
will not be short ofiourteeD days. Please
10. to send any newspapers as it will be
impossible TO forwacd them on horse
\ back"
Extract OF a letter from North Santa, received
| Yesterday.
"i'be loss Of lives on the river, as far az
has come within my knowledge, is Of The
estate Oxford i; Robt. Hugginsl2; C,Iug-
! gins GO; &. G.. Pinckney 4; Mrs. Horny 40;
VI. Hume % Nj. Henry Deas 8; Mr.. j.
Middleton 8; MIR. Lynch Horny 4, and
whites. met this evening, whlie at
South River, humber of the Hampton
negroes returning from Murphy's Island,
who tod me that they had been down and
buried 46 of Mrs. Horfy's negroes"
a letter from Combahee, of the 5O,h
uh. takes no notice whatever of the late
gale, but mentions that they were busily