Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-02-08
THE LATE STORM.

Inc southern papers THIS side oil Baltl-
more are filled with accounts of the trenen-
nous effect Of the storm OF last Saturday, In
addition 10 the details given yesterday, we
copy the following from the New York
Commercial Advertiser OF Tuesday eve
ming
Four three story buildings on the First
avenue, N York. were unroofed, and the
chimneys blown into the street. They were
Inhabited, but no person was hurt.
Part ofthe walls of new three story
house on the opposite side of the street from
the above, was blown down.
The herm brig ID. NJ. Smith, Capt Smith,
Of Philadelphia, from Savannah, with cotton
and rice for this port. was wrecked in the
gale on Saturday. The anchors, chain ca
blcs, beds. some articles from the cabin, and
2lo bales cotton had been saved, and it is
supposed that the remainder OF the cargo
would be saved in damaged state.
The schooner Alabama. Raynor, is a.
ashore, with a cargo Of 1910 barrels of tur-
peniine, consigned TO NJ. Plat of this city
The cargo was partly landed, and they were
still busy in getting it ashore under charge
of Capt Forman.-
The American mentions as one OF the re-
merkable effects OF the wind, the starting of
of large eight-wheeled car on the Newark
railroad, which went up rising grade with
great rapidly. and only stopped when the
wind "was taken out Of her sails" by the
sides Of the deep cut
From the New York Express
Roads TO tie North Blocked up-A gen.
tleman who ched here yesterday noon in
box wagon from the North. states that the
stage route is impossible He Informs US
that il has been The greatest freshel ever re-
collected in that part. All the small bridg.
es on the road are carried away, and some Of
the large ones, particularly that at Red
Hook. AL the mails are piled up at Fish.
kill, unable to get them on.
Extract from letter dated
Hartford, Sunday evening - Yesterday
we had tremendous gale from the south
east, with a heavy fall Of rain. which lasted
for twelve or fourteen hours, with almost
unexampled violence. The ground being
frozen very hard all the water ran into the
river, which presume has already risen
fifteen or twenty feet. and The ice entirely
broken up, Many buildings are injured
tDOTt OF ttSS, anu anu Suuuc trees are
in number Of instances, blown over or bro
ken A considerable portion of the bridge
across Connecticut river. between this city
and East Hartford, is carried away.
have rarely known such gale, and never,
that recollect, at this time of the year.
| ELizabethtowa, ". I'VE learn from the
American that one OF the buildings ofthe ex.
tensiye oil cloth factory, conducted by Mr.
Edwards, was blown down. All the work
men on the premises escaped before the
crash, with the exception of one. who was
subsequently exlricated with no other injury
than broken arm. The building was a
long wooden one. three stories high. in which
were several thousand dollars worth Of fin
ished ol-cloths hanging up to dry and hard
en-. AT Elzabethtown Point the rope walk
was blown down, and the large fax factory
was unroofed as was the maleable iron fac.
tory in part. Several buildings. in which
the workmen attached 10 these factories resi-
ded, were also blown down, unrooCed, or 9TH
erwise injured
AT PHILADELPHIA.
From the National Gazette.
The rain Of Friday night and Saturday
morning has caused freshet in the river
Schuylkil, which is without parallel toi
the damage which ensued on that river
The water rose very suddenly about one o.
clock in the afternoon, and continued 10 in
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