Litchfield enquirer., 1830-07-01
Extract ofa letter to the editor ofthe Nosh- viIle Banner, dated
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. June 2.

UiEle Banner, dated
 SHELBYvILLE, Tenn. June 2.
 Dear Sir-Shelbyville is in ruins. On Monday night 31st May, about l2 o'clock. it pleased an all wise Providence to sisit this place with a most devastating hurricane.- The Court House, Market House, Methodist Church. :se Brick Hotel, the Bank, and ma nv other valuable buildings were prostrated in an instant. Five young men were killed, and many others bruised and wounded. Mr. Newton, editor of the Shelbyyille Intelligent cer, was carried amidst the ruins of his house 100 yards, and instantly killed and dreadful Iy nangled; the other young men who were Killed, were, MT. David Whitson and MT. Caldwell, saddlers; MT. Rdeont, and Mr.. Arnold, clerk in Mir. James Reid's store.- Messrs. Blackman, DudsOn, Solomon DeWs, and many others were badly hurt. About thirty eight stores and shops, and ten or ff- teen dwelling houses were overthrown.
 shall not attempt to describe the scene.- Those who have seen most of such scenes, imagine. attempt the least to describe them. No one heard the fall of a tree, or fence, or house. It was one constant, mODOtOnOus, shri:l rOar-the voice of the Tempest. The lightning was one constant flash, rendering every thing visible. The earth was covered with ia sheet of water.--From the Public Square, all is one undistinguished mass ofru- ins. The very foundations of many houses upon another. The preservation of lives a. mid such destruction of habitations, seems almost miraculous. Many found themselves lying on their floors without a roof over them or walls around them others were extricated by their own exertions, or that oftheir friends, from amidst raiters, beams, and rubbish. Some were carried to distance between masses of timber and brick bats. The storm began to snbside, and the cry of distress was heard. People half naked were seen running through the streets to extricate their friends, or convey them to place ofsafety. MT. Ar holds case was very pitiable. In passing from the store to the street, the corner Of a flying door struck him and tore out portion of his lungs. He was still able to run into the street, where he was picked up and car ried into an unroOfgd house and laid upon the floor; thence he was taken to a bed. and lay during that night and the next day in the greatest agony, which he bore with remarka- bic fortitude, and at length died.
 The damage is variously estimated, from fifty to haDdred thousand dollars. Some have lost their all, and are without houses, furniture, Or wood. Mr. Turrentine's jewell lery shop was literally torn in pieces, and his whole stock scattered in every direction, The goods in most ofthe stores sustained a good deal of injury.
 Fsonsth Albany Daily Aduertiser, of June %.
 Another Mali Robbery and the Robber I'a- ken.-On the delivery of the Northern Mail at the post office in this city. on Monday night, at o'clock, it was immediately dis covered that it had been cut open and that the contents were missing. A prompt. and vigorous and ultimately successful search un- der the direction of the post master, was in,- mediately commenced, which resulted in the recovery of the lost mail and in the arrest of a person, who had been previously suspected of robbing the western mail last week, and who proved to be the robber.
 Five passengers came through from Troy MT. Lathrop of Sandy Hill was one of them. who, when hearing of the robbery. suspected one of the two passengers on the back seat, who pretended to be asleep and leaned for ward over the strap, letting his hat fall twice his hands were all this time in motion. He said he wished to be set down at the North Dutch Church, but the driver declining to go out ofthe way. he was let out at the corner of North Market and Patroon st. From MT. LathrOp's description, he was immediately recognized as an old offender. While search was making, he presented himself at Thorp's stage office to engage passage tor the west, where he was identified by one of MT. Th0rp's drivers, who heardtMr. Ezsdescribe him in the post office. He was immediately com mitted and searched; considerable sum of money and one letter. post-marked at White Hall, June 21. was found on him. He soon after confessed where he had left the contents of the mail which were found. His aame is John Fisher.
 He has lived here and in Troy these ten years he says he moved to Waterford last week. When he was arrested last evening, he told Alderman Hart that he had no ac- complice.
 Some letters were foundin the gangway of Mir. SOlomOn's stahle in Columbia street.-- They were no doubt thrown there by Fisher as he passed down inc street to the post office. fearing that they might be found on him.-l Tbe one letter which he had, was probably accidentally left in his pocket.
 The sum found on fisher was $l15 in bank bills, besides small amount in silver: this last he says he had with him beforeth rob- bery. This SIS is no doubt all the money there was in the mail. There were but three letters containing money, 50 far as appears from reading them. One contained SlOO di- rected to Josiah sherman 0f Albany anoth- or contained &lO, and another &5. This makes out the amount of $l15.
 F. s, Last evening several more letters brO- ken open were f0upd in an alley adjoining Hn-. A