Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-06-16
HURRICANE.
Washington CITY, J ne 5.

A sFIEtNC1 FCHh~h
from Norfolk, we are indebted 10 the
sstention of our correspondents there,
ssr further particulars of the storm OF
1T Saturday. Its distructiy effects
lave been very extensively felt, and the
iosses in merchandise, shipping, and
Tops, from all that we learn, must have
~ en- immense. In Norfolk, by nine
clock in the morning the water was
over the highest wharf, and by one o.
eack, boats were required to pass from
tle warehouse TO another, and the oc-
cu2snts compelled to abandon them al
fl.ether. At 2 O'clock the tide began
40 fail, and about 6, access could be
lad again to stores and warehouses.
Sad accounts from the crops In the
~aarsounding country, especially from
she cotton, corn, and orchards, are e1-
epceied.
0urcorrespondents, under date of
Monday, June 6th-9 A. N. writes:
l have learnt from a country man, who
las come from Princes Ann this morn
Ajag, that two sch'rs are ashore abreast
80. Inc Old Pleasure House site. They
aapear to have been laden with flour,
=, about 30 barreles have been picked
up along the beach, supposed to nave
deiited from them; but the creeks were
SO high yesterday, and the bridges all
swept away, that there was a difficulty
in getting TO the vessels, especially by
those who did not feel particular inter
est in them.
The Fayetteville Stage, due last e.
vening, arrived this morning. The pas
sengers represent the gale of Saturday
Last, as unusually severe. The wheat,
corn, and cotton, were literally blown
out Of the ground, trees, fences, SC.
laid Frustrated 50 as to render the roads
almost impossible.
Our correspondent at (i!y PoiD!,'tn-
der date yesterday, informs that the
ship Protection, ~liatton, is loading for
ROTTERDAM, to sail 25th inst; brig Acas-
IA, British Wilson, will load for a
port in Great-Britai next week. We
have a violent blow, accompanied by
incessant showers of rain, for the last
Sc hours. am apprehensive it willin-
jure the crops of wheat very much. 1t
is at this time so very cool, that tire is
necessary.
Farther disasters by The late Gale.--A
gentleman who came up this morning
from the Pleasure House, informes, that
The schooner Ann-Maria, Prithcard,
hence, for Fredericksburg, and a top
eaii schooner from Philadelphia, bound
np The bay, are ashore, opposite the
Pleasure House. A sloop is ashore be-
low Lynhaven Inlet.
The schooners Tell Tale, Church.
yard; Emblem, Merscream, and Bro
tiers, Van Name, for New-York, will
sail this day,-Mor. Her.
Terrible Gals.--It commenced rain
ing at intervals, yesterday afternoon,
with the wind n. f.; at moor the rain
was incessant, with a fresh breeze,
which increased until about u o'clock
at night, when it blew a heavy gale;
since which it has continued with una
bated violence, and is, at this moment,
On O'Clock, A.. NJ while we are wri-
ting this article, latter a part OF our pa
pars were struck off, blowing a very
heavy gale, with torrents oil rain.
The whole country is inundated with
water, trees are torn up by the roots,
fences thrown down, &C.; and for the
fate of the farmer and mariner, we are
under serious apprehensioDs, shat we
shall too o receive melancholy ac-
counts of its disastrous effects in the
loss of both lives and property, to IN "a
farming extent. We think the wheat
crop must inevitably be nearly, ifnotto-
tally destroyed
Such a storm at this eason OF the
year, is, we believe, unprecedented IN
this country; indeed we do not recol-
,lect ever TO have seen an equinoctial
gale more severe.-tb
Effects Of the late Gois.-Tbe Nor
folk papers of Thursday, continue the
hetaii OF disasters occasioned by the late
storm.
The apprehension that the Pilot boat
Geaser, had been lost, is confirmed.
Sae was cspsized during the gale ofSa.
~turday, about noon, near the Wash
foods, andWiIiam Bigley, JohnHouse,
shadrach House, Charles Rudd, John
thiteticld, and Dick. "a colored man
longing to Mr.. John Herber Of Hamp-
eton.) buried in the ocean.
William Anderson, a boy, (the only
enc saved,) states. that he was in the ca
IA at the time of the disaster, where
q remained until next morning up to