Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-05-14
From he MAJ. Cour. ertra Of Friday.
HORRIBLE STORM!
NATCHEZ IN RUlNS!

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n Our devoted city is in ruins, and we hav
Dbl heart Of stone TO detail while the dea
Afmain unburied and the wounded groan 70
Npp. Yesterday, at o'clock, while all wa
race, and most Of our population were at tn
@nng table, storm burst upon our city ant
jagged for hal an hour with most destructive
8gld dreadful power. We look around and see
aichcz, yesterday lovely and cheerful Match
liz, in ruins, and hundreds of our citizens with
II n shelter or pillow. Genius cannot ina
inc, ,oclry itself cannot fill up picture that
Gould match the ruin and distress TINT every
There meets the eye.
q TWAS the voice oGthe Almighty that spoke,
IBID prudence should dictate reverence rather
ban execraion. All have suffered, and all
iould display the feelings Of humanity and
be benevolencc Of religion!
II. "Under the llil' presents scene Of desola-
ion and ruin which sickens the heart and beg
nrs doscriprion-alI, all. is swept away, and
meath the ruins still lay crushed the bodies
'Af many strangers. 1t would fill volumes 10
s@pict The many escapes and hearlrending
Renes; one Of The most interesting was the
sN.scue of Mrs. Alexander from the ruins of The
8Feam Boat Hotel; she was found greatly in
sAred with two children in her arms and they
Alpth dead!
81 ! he destruction Of fiat boats is immense; at
enst sixty were tossed for Il moment on rag
fg river and then sunk, drowning most oitheir
rev. The best informed produce dealers
blirnate The number Of lives lost by the sink.
pg Of fat boats al TWO HUNDRED! No
alculallon can he made tho amount of mon
~ and produce swallowed up by the river
She Steamboat Kinds, with most Of her crew,
Vent 10 the bottom, and the Prairie from ST.
Louis, was so much wrecked as to be unfit for
sc. The steamer St. Lawrence at the upper
loton press is total wreck,
~ There is notelling how wide spread has been
he ruin. Reports have come in from planta-
ions twenty miles distant in Louisiana, and
die rage Of the tempest was terrible. liun>
Ireds OF negroes killed, dwellings swept like
ehatf from their foundations, the loresl uproot
Id, and the crops beaten down and destroyed.
Ncvcr, never, never, was there such desolatlon
ind rhin
N We cannot even attempt description Of the
snangIed condition Of Natchez. Hundreds of
8louses, yesterday on firm foundations and the
x bode OF comfort and beauty, now choke. up
lpur streets with mingled materials, in state
81 utter destruction.
We can Ito nothing to-day bu, bury the dead
sand bind up the wounds of those yet struggling
For lite. A list ofthe dead and wounded viii
NE given so soon as we can procure it com
sple'e.
4 The Courthouse at Vidalia, Parish Concor
lia, is low with the earth, and the Jail next &c
I; badly shattered. 1t is painful 10 report III,
Heath Of Judge KEEToN, who was dug from the
ruins OF The Court holsc horribly mangled, he
WAS the only person in the building at The
lime.
The Sheriff OF Adams county and the Mar
shals Tor this district, have suspended all bust
mess for the present.
/. fever community deserved the sympathy
,of the county, and the bounty Of the govern
lment, il is desolaicd, ruined Natchcz
The condition OF our Office will prevant the
Issuance OF another paper until next Monday
sor Tuesday.