Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-02-28
VERY LATE FROM ENGLAND.
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The packet shi hipCambridge.Ca Burs-
ley, arrived this morning from Liverpool,
whence she sailed on the l0Ih of January.
We have our files Of London papers to The
9Th, and Liverpool to the 10th of January,
both inclusive.
Violent Storm-three Packets Lost =
Our late sturm seems TO have been far.ex-
ceeded in severity and extent Of disaster,
by one which swept over the West ofEn-
gland on the 9th of January. M less
than l3 columns Of the Liverpool Mail are
filled with details of its ravases. In that
town the damage was so general that not
one street entirely escaped. Great num-
bers of chimnies were blown down, crush
ing houses in their fall-roofs were car
ried away-garden walls prostrated, sc.
and in some instances entire houses
were reduced 10 heaps of ruin. Several
lives were lost, but in very extraordinary
number of cases, persons who were buried
by the fall of bricks and ruins, were sub
sequen,ly extricaed alive, aud for the most
part little injured.
The disasters among the shipping were
terrible. No less than three of the New
York packets were lost, The Oxford, ST..
Andrew and Pennsylvania. The Oxford
went on shore in Bootle Bay on the night
of the 9th, with all her masts sranding.-
The next morning. the passengers. l3 in
number, with the captain and crew, land
ed in safety, wth'he luggage. Tho masts
fell in the course ofthe night.
Near to the same spot, the steamer Red
wing, a tender for the mail, went ashore.
So violent was The hurricane, that although
the Redwng had three anchors out, and
her full power Of steam on, one of the
her cables snapped and the other two an
chors dragged, the vessel going bodily on
shore, till at last, The captain was obIige to
slip his cables, to avoid running into the
Oxford. The wind then drove The vessel
on her beam ends, and being unable to get
her head to windward, she went on shore
sideway.
The St. Andrew struck on tho Burbo
Sands. The passengers were taken off
by steam vessel, the Victoria. High en-
comiums are paid,in the Liverpool papers,
to the cool and steady conduct Of Capt.
Thompson. The ship was a total wreck,
The ship Lockwoods, with great mum
her OF passengers on board, went upon the
North Bank, her fore and main masts fall
ing in the shock. She was boarded by
the same steam vessel, the Victoria, ,w hicE
took of thirty three passengers and about
seventeen of The crew. Forty or fifty per-
sons were believed to have perished on
board The Lockwood.
The packet ship PENNSYLVANIA went on
the same North Bank. about quarter of
mile eastward Of the Lockwoods, where
her hull was nearly covered by the sea-
The captain, crew aud passengers were
seen in the rigging on Tuesday, the 9Th.
On that evening the Victoria steamer put
olf'to their assistance, and was within sight
of them next morning but could render
them no aid. The sufferers were seen
in lieiris sging and their cries could be heard.
One of the passengers, MIR. Thompson,
of New York, had been seen by Captain
Nye, oflhe Independence, at Leasowe.-
He reported that himself and three other
passengers and 5 seamen left the ship in
one Of The boats, which was swamped,
and the other eight were drowned. Mr..
Thompson ascribed his own safety to a
life preserver which he had on.
II was reported on the 10th tina, &c per-
sons had hcen rescued from the Pennsyl-
vania-44 from the Lockwoods--and %
from the St. Andrew.
The accounts from the interior are quite
as frightful as those from The sea coast
At Manchester the violence Of the storm
was terrific. In tre surrounding country
the destruction Of trees was immense. Ia
one park alone, $50 were prostrated,
and ITO more very much injured by the
loss of large limbs and branches. At
Blackburn moi less than eleven factories
had their chimuies levelle'l, doing great
damage in their fall.