The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1822-10-16
GREAT SOUTHERN GALE.


the Franklin this morning, five days from
Charleston, we have received papers
from that place tothe 5th inst. inclusive,
which give US further particulars in rela.
ton to Che terrible gale, which was ex.
| perieuced in that quarter on the eth and
2Sth ultimo. f
In addition to the details previously
published, we arc enabled to subjoiD the
following incidents on Sullivan's island {:
Mr.. Tuno's house blown down; col
Prioleau's kitchen blown down; MIR.
Matthew piazza blown down; Mrs.
Horry's out houses blown down DR..
Brailsfords out houses blown down,
The residence Of Mr.. Lewis Morris, il.
was overset by the tempest. Fills wife
| and eldest son, together with Mr.. Algcnce,
a private tutor, were all three killed. Mr.
Morris's house was considered one of the
safest on the island. 4
Fifteen houses have been blown down
| on the island, and others more or less in. .
jured.
In the fall Of Mr.. Lewis Morris's house,
(mcntioned above) negro man was kill.
ed and negro woman had her thigh
broke. 4t
The loss sustained by land and water
is estimated at 100000 in addition to
which about thirty-6ve lives were lost.
MIR. Laval, whose residence was at
Hamstcad, has been severely wounded 5y
| the overseeing of his house, and his wife
and two children killed! Two negroes
of Mr.. Lavals-were also killed, and Mr..
John Wilson, butcher, who was on wish,
but detained by the storm-Ias buried
/ under the ruins.-Severai dead bodies
have been picked up in the river, four of
| them negroes Of capt. Slatus's and white
man.
The U. s. schooner Grampus would
have rode out the gale without damage,
but for the ship Hunter, which running
foul of her, carried away her lib. boom
and fore topmast, and lost two poats. The
ship Hunter broke adrift from Fitzsi.
mons wharf, and after going foul of a
number of vessels went on shore above
castle Pinckney She has her larboaro
channels stove IN, and her sails shattered
I In ribbons from the yards
The sloop Hetty, Crazy, Of New-Lon>
| don, arrived from New York on FRIDAY
evening, in 6 days; she was bound to
Ne%SOrleans, and put in on account of the
weather came TO anchor but from the
violence ofthe gale was obliged to cut "a
! way her mast and was driven on shore,
but has been got off without further inlu.
ry.
! Messrs. WhiIden, Gailliard Lynch, and
Mrs. Gildiere's houses sustained various
injuries; Mr.. Robinsons house blown
down col. Johnson's house blown down
and a .nulatto child killed; the narkci
building was also blown down Mr. Lynch.
shop roof blown off; Mr.. Migrants house
unroofed; Mr.. Dcnison,s house blown
down ; house of Mr.. Flemming's blown.
down Mr. Tovey's injured; VAR. Camp
bells paint-house nnroofed; Mr.. Jack
sons hotel partly unruo:ed and kitchen
down Mr.. Jones's houses both seriously
damaged MIR. England's house seriously
damaged Mr.. VIM. NJ. Smiths house
blown down Mr.. Wighsman's stable
blown down.
| The sloop Enterprise is ashore near
| Castle Pinckney, with the loss Of both an
chors and cables. The schr Mechanic,
Matfett, at the ship yard is seriously dam
aged The schooner Benjamin had her
bow-sprit and foremast carried away and
other damage done.
A negro man belonging to capt. BenIa.
| min was cut out Of schooner thai was
| Dset in the cove by Messrs. J. Davis.
robert T.. Brown, and James Miller.
In Mazy cborough, we learn that Mr.
Jones, (the mail contractor suffered We.
y seriously.-His large barn, his whole
| rsnge OF stables, all his negro houses, and
the chimneys Of his dwelling house, we're
| completely destroyed.
The new house OF Mr.. Mathews, in
Christ Church Parish, opposite Gadsdcn's
wharf, was blown down.
The cotton house and the south range
| ol the tobacco inspection, are Frustrated
| On the plantation of Thomas Hunt, esq,
~ Christ Church Parish, the damage has
been very considerable. rhe dwelling
much injured one OF the chimneys blown
down, the kitchen entirely destroyed, the
cotton house, gin, &c. overseer's house.
stable and negro mouse bio u down.
The crop,except the rice in the barn yard
materially injured-every fence OH the
plantation laid PROSTATE, but fortunately
no lives lost.
| The large cotton house Of John White,
esq. in Christ Church Parish, with all his
out houses, are blown down.
Me- Barksdale's overseerS house, ne.
houses * out buildings, in Christ Church
Parish, are all blown away.
| The roof was blown from the nev IA =