Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-07-16
From the Ne,o- York Commercial .4dre,tiscr.
THUNDER STORM.

sudden and severe storm OF wind, hail and
rain, accompanied with some heavy thunder and
vivid lightning. II blew al first with great fury
from S S. E. and after brief interm;ssion
from the S. w The hail was unusu ally large.
The following is list Of the casualties which
occurred, as far as they have come TO cur knowi'
edge
The sloop Guerrero, Of Rhinebeck, had just
arrived and was about enteii' 6 the dock; at The
Albany Basin, when the flaw struck her, and
carried away her mas, and bows rit. The mast
was broken off about four feet above the deck,
and in falling, struck MIR. Bergh, the captain.
who was at the liller, and whose thigh bone
was fractured near the socket; he was also o.
lberwse badly injured. he sloop drif'ed up
near Spring stree, before she was brought TO-
Several sail-boa:s were upse, in the North
River. The steamboat Fairy QUEEN picked
up seven persous Fl ON one boat-olher boais
were assisted by sloops and row boats.
A small pleasure boat upset near one OF the
H oboken boats which was crossing the ferry,
and a b0y about lwelve years old was s'rug
Cling for some moments in The water, when a
coIorcd man Jumped overheard from the seam
boat, and supported him until she rounded 10,
when re was taxed IN. A man IN the small
boat lost HE pocket book, which iloated, and
was oaugh, by the colored man IN his teeth,
whlI he VS. supporting the boy. About d
dozen hats were blown from the heads of The
passengers IN the seam-bua,
The ship Conc"rdia, lying at the foot ct Dn-
street, slipped Ter fos', and swung round
across me entrance OF the basin-she appeared
10 have sustained no damage
The ship John Linton, Capt. Wyhray, Dire"
up the PCS, 10 which shr va, made FAST, at the
| foot nf Robinson stree, dri!ted up the river
and grounded near Nor!h Muore-s'rce'. In
III, se:ond squ1ll she wass driven from her Sit
ua,ron here, and struck at the foot Of Beach
street. where she grounded, and, il is feared,
will not ger OFF without great difficulty
| During the S .orm, 'hr,e sloops were driven
ashore a, Hall,t's Cove.
The steam boat Ci'izen. coming up the Bay
had her awning torn t. aoms, her rails, SC
broken.
Several vessels in the Easl River dragge':
their anchors The steam boat Chancellor Ii
wings, on parted her strrp fast, and swung round
| from ihe wharf towards the stram--the wine
suddenly shifted, and she was returned TO the
WHAT in safely.
| The woodtn tower erected below the bank Of
the Hoboken green, for the purpose of support
ing he weight by which The car was propelled
on the Aerial Ways, was prostrated by the first
gust. 1t was fairly carried from its foundations
and no Two of the timbers are left together. A
fine willow tree was also blown down on the
green.
| In the city, the gable end Of a new ,hree-sto.
ry brick hsuse in Spring street, opposite Gin
ton Market, was blown down.
| The Gag staff in thu Yves, Battery, foot OF
Hcrbprr stree was blown down
Most If the awnings along West-stree, were
blown away. shutters blown in, ant many Pancs
Of glass broken by tic hail.
4 Ugh Kinney Of the hree story house No
500, Pearl street, was blown down, and fell
upon the chimney Of the adjoining Two story
house, No $40: AMI .he Two a'ling on the ROOT
of thu latter. crushed in the entire OF the r"a'
roof and par of The front Tbere were Two fe
males m the honsr. but they were unhurt.
F,urnsw buildings in First stree were blown
d rwn.
Thompson Northump's livery stable, Tx
I, ber,, stree, was much damaged, and mar
whilr sleepiny on some hay. WIS sl;g Ilv hurt
\ brick honsp no, entirely finished. in Duane
between Chapel and Church streets. bad thu
npper part of the gable ends blown off and lh'
side walls so much injured that they will have
50 be taken down as low as :he frs floor
Several uees on the BAKERY, Grsenwich.sifee'
Broadway, ST.. Johns Parke, and several olhe
parts Of the city. were 'orn up by the roots, ant
} many windows in different paris Of the Gil!
; were blown TO pieces
In the Rev Mr.. Dubois Church in Franklin
, street singular scene. was presented. HI
Sexton observinga Storm approaching, close
The blinds: bu, the wind Came with such VIC
: lence as to drive them open, and the fury OF III
: storm was fell by many Of his audience, par'ic
u,arly the ladies, whose enormous bonncts, al
though as large as ordinary parasos. did no
nrotec, them from the blast. The womr
sore AIMED aloud, the children cried. and man
ran on, of the church, and at the door was me
, NV the Storm. which took of thcIr hats, sc 81
, Nearly a similar scene occurred al the Mciho
=. dist church in Duane street.
q In ST. Thomas Church, likewise, there wa
!. much alarm The windows were open, an
the hurricane came upon the audience, wit
> prodigious violence, brfore they were aPPris.e
E ,ha, :" a storm was brewing" The ladi'
-, ,,auy rOutd ran into the We!