Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-09-10
ALEXANDRIA. DC.
,rroa,y MORNING. SEPT 10. 1854.

.V.rT ~ HOULFfAFSs
,,om.rcial friend has favored the Baltimore
18th 81. Thomas Gazette -extra, OF
inc nj, containing a detailed accnunt OF
x 81 hurricane al Barbadoes, the part.
ne IA ,ybi.h were Published on Wednesday last.
,.,,sst 10 find 10 this papera statement which
We, fir the large estimate OF the loss OF
So. ii, overwhelming calamity. According
%. received atSt. Thomas, it was sup
49,. from three to five thousand prisons
Filled. 1t is mentioned as fact which Is
~ characterization, that the merchants
..,,o # Barbadoes, although themselves
TT. m~H.rers by the hurricane, had reiu'
.';n.ra,.. ,he price Of provision. The ac-
mint before us sags:-
n,,,es o'clock on the morning OF the iith
a., vinJ had increased to a hurricane,
W." ~ of dest uctioa now commenced
10 M. annr until five 1t ragged with unparalIel-
Lance. whilst the lightning would at inter-
vi, momenrary but horrid glare on the
" / rh;ert, around. The houses were ell
,,.na1 with the earth or unroofed: the iarg-
K ,,,r sr,m then roots. or broken as reeds.
n. md,yiduals were buried under the ru-
,vco,,d without a shelter to the pelting OF
,orm and threatened with Instant death at
K Ill.,, ,h,t hurled the shattered fragments In
| ,,,y direction. ,
Mn he Iigbt Of the day dawned through the
'iEI r,oom Of the subsldins tempest, the de-
~ , ..z,, ne bihitat a hpnrt-rPnItno
,.,ore. The dreadful howlns OF the winds and
no r[r,,lnr of the falling ruins having ceas-
a, the ,hritks of the aarighted. and the groans
f ne wounded and dying. broke IN mourntul
.a,od. and pitiable accents on the earsOt the less
a.er,so,te survivors. Those who had Sufficient
..,o,,,b rem,inins, commenced a Sorrowful
.s,,r5 far the respective members OF their fami-
~, ,ome Of whose ilfeiess 0odies we're disihter-
ed lon the ruins to be transferred to another
crave. whilst mansied forms Of others were drag
s,d forth. frightful from their bruises, and max,
~, Me hearts Of their sympathising relatives bleed
a1h anguish. The fields which the day before
presented 50 ~llxuriant an appearance, were COM
pletely changed into a dsseFt; neither canes, corn,
nor provisions. with a few incousidera6le exceP-
tons. having been left IN the ground. The scenes
al horrr IN the Churches battle ali description.
There the dead and diving have been born from
hE,reat pIaces, there The bruised have been TAX
IN foe surgical assistance. The bodies of ali the
killed, however. have not been recoyera the
heaps VI stone under which they were crushed:
aud a. pl,refaction has already taken place, we
are threatened with the additional calamity OF a
dsadl, pesdlence. God. in His infinite good
ness. avert further horrors from our devoted isle.
Threatened as we are with famine and disease,
~ can molly rely on His bountifal Providence to
adr,,retch His heavenly arm for our timely res
che. Without a plentiful supply of articles OF
hol, the inhabitants will perish with hunger
without the Divine interpOsltiOn. their dire fate
must be contaminated by c~OntasiOn from the et-
tuva arising from the putrid carcases Of men and
beasts which lie On the face OF the earth!