Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-10-19

Ersyaft Of teller from Port Rogul aIotnia:aA
The hurrcRne has lefl Fasastsad heap ct funs
Il has cxceeded an violence the storm of 1916 and
had II continued one hour longer, suspect there
would not have been hGbitation len la tho Noun
tains u Is impossiable for words to convey more
than faint ldoa of the awful spectacle II Kept the
brain in one constant whirl of excitement Blast al
ter hlsst came believing with resstless fury reudiuu
20 pieces evcsy thing that opposed Ills progress
Large lumber trees from the roots and laid pros
trate-rooIs OF houses whred into the air and scat
tered like chaf before the siud-thc crashing of tim
bers-the crumbng Of walls, with rchssul roaring
OF the eesen,s--solned altogether one of the most
terrific scores It is possible Cor the mind to conceive
The preservation of property became object
life Itself was IN imminent peril and each succeeding
blast was ooked upon he signal of ins'an destr1c-
ton When the storm subsidized, it almost seemed
To cease for want Of fresh objects on which 10 reak
ITS vengeance. As vet. know of no place that has
suffered equal to this I could not expect 10 80 un-
scathed briei detail viii best ennblc you TO osli
mate the damage sustained Early in the morning
the Kitchen door was wrenched from its hinges and
the wind gaining admission split the roof two one
nan iailing over Hat IN the ground-,he other
carried up INTO the air. torn To fragments and scatter
ed IN the adjoining woods The fowl houses aud
rabbit house partly built ofstpnc were next thrown
down, and not stick stoneiatt standing This
hospital and servants room "a long range buldngs)
were ad postrate and the roof carried entirely out
OF sight. The horse stable partly unrooGed, and
the whole building thrown so entirely out of plumb
as to rf4nre being taken down and rebuilt The
toTpoIs uouSP Gnd store, wer~ blown entirely down
and the fSnning machine broken and pitched into
the gully The pulpng house cutie down. and
pupcr smashed. OF course almost all the ueprn
houses were destroyed. aud every fence about the
place; but make lte account of these. snids; such
universal devastation. | had battered myself that
the dwelling house, from It's immense strengi h.
might bid defiance 10 any hurricane. Built of solid
mason work, with a low Roof. and firmly braced il
looked the very picture ct security Nv confidence
IN lts powers nf resistance in moment DESTROY
ed! One of the doors facing the Norflfvari md
which closed from the outside, during he very
worst OF the hurricane, shattered enddrivcn i'm by
which means the wind gained full admission 70 n
small bedroom aud the atmospheric pressure
became so intense. that in a few minutes all
the walls OF the room burst with appalling vio-
ience! The adjoining bedrooms being thus laid opcn
their outer walls Don gave way. tho stones beinp
hurled to distance of20 feet. The interior walls
now fairly exposed to the battering OF tho elements
were strainng and bending at every impuson;-it
became evident that the building could stand little
more. Al tins crisis, one terrific blast-the very
acme ct the teG7pest-swept through The broken
rooms, caught the drGwing-room door, and shivered
II tosphnters, with noise resembling the BURSTING
OF ordnance. The wills leaned oyer-ihe ceilings
tell IN, and IT wanted but more such blast and
we should bave been buried under the rmnsi
It would be endless task recount all the dam
ages sustained by the calamity; coffee fields stripped
provision grounds destroyed, negroes unhoused gar
dens lad waste furniture, wearing apparel &C. bro
Ken anu destroyed and this in the space of three short
hours As an example of the prodirious force of the
wind, NAV mention thet grind stone was wrench
ed iromlts clamps, and pitched about four feet from
the posts The whole place Is sirewed with bro
ken trees fragments Of walls shingles and raflers
ana gears the genuine aspect Of desolation and des-
pair.