The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-25
NATCTTEZ.
THE DEN0UEMENT OF THE GALLANT
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SApnArH EvENrNa,. May 10.

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SABBATH EvENrNd,. May TO-
What we wrote on Friday, says.the Natchez
Free Trader; the day after the calamity, has since
proved far too low computation and far too
faint sketch Of the ruin which hssbefallen our
nobe-spirited, yet devoted city.
The estimate of little more tliana million
and quarter of dollars damage done to the
buildings merely, may be nearly correct for the
compact part ofithe city; but to the loss of
merchandise, provisions, goods, of various kinds,
and furniture destroyed, there shoud in the opln-
ion Of some ofiour practical and clear-headed
men, be, at least, four millions more added-mak-
ing the entire loss OF property in the city of Ma
tchez more than tiee millions of dollars.
This estimate, we believe to be strictly within
the bounds of moderation. The immense guam
titles of pork, bacon, lard and vegetables lost at
the Landing; swept into the deep and oblivious
river, would ast0hish any not acquainted with
the nature of our trade Many Of our large
ware houses and furnishing stores, having, lately
been crippled and restricted in their operations,
the most of tie supplies for the city county and
adjacent couuties- have been derived from the
Natchez Landing These now, witha very few
exceptions, are overwhelmed in ruins or lost in
the waters.
There numerous dwellings the lower, as
well as upper city, where every item of furniture,
and clothing, and ornament, were given to the
gyrations of the whirlwind, and lost irrevocably.
Many ladies, lost elegant Wardrobes, and were
dependent op,friendship for the initial vestments
with which they covered themselves after they
had been redneedto a state of almost entire nu-
dity, by tornado which was writling, Sin the
sweat of its great agony" and leaping from tower
to tower Ffwith delIrious bound"
The beautiful and splendid villa of Andrew
Brown, Esq, at which place the most gorgeous
and splendid ieta ever given in this city to the
city guests from Yicksburg last year, is totally
ruined The cost of its erectban was sixty or
seventy thousand dollars. The mansions ofPe-
ter Little, Esq, and Mrs. Linton on the bluff,
fronting each other, about miledistant, outrode
the storm, being built of very massive materials,
and escaped with the loss of ehimneys and the
dismanding of some of the 6iezes and architec-
tural ornaments.
The Natchez theatre is pile of shapeless ru-
ms, beyond recovery. The entire square, sur
rounded by the walls, and partly covered by the
pile OF the rail road depot, late One of the larg
est and noblest edifces Of the kind in any city of
the Union, is covered with the wreck of towers,
walls, anda roofs. From, this immense mass OF,
rubbish, several woundodpersans and dead bodies
have been dug, and the work of removing this
hinge pile of brick adtimber has been but Just
commenced.
From the immense ruins of Parker's Southern
Exchange, Messrs. Narish and Bemish were dug
alive, after confinement of an hour or two, and
the dead body of Moses, most valuable servant;
it is possible that there may be one or two more
bodies still In those ruins.
The Planters Hotel, formerly called "Our
House," situated ON the brow of the bluff, was
blown down the precipice Many men were
known to have been in the house at the time; and
1t has become painfully evident to the senses that
the rapid decomposition of flesh is going on un-
der the timhers of that house.
Eleven dead bodies have been taken from the
ruins of the Steamboat Hotel, which have all
been removed by the gangs of slaves of Colonel
Surget, Mr.. Crossgrove, and others, generously
sent in by those wealthy planters
not now speak with certainty. This subject Is
committed by public meeting to committee of
these gentlemen, who will report as soon as any
certainty can be arrived at.
From the .Natchez Courier
The wounded of the storm are all under good at
tention, land ifmedica aid and skill can accomplish
their recovery they will soon be upon their feet in
the agod-Iile attitude of man. DIR. Pollard has
under his charge about TWENTY-FIVE. and other
physicians of the city have wounded cases to the
number of fifty or sixty.
The Mississippi is rising, rising! !! rising =! and
the lowlands will this summer know nothing but
ruin, ruin, ruin The very elements seem to con-
spire againstus Amid it all, let our conduct be
prudent, and our language reverential
So soon as the news of the storm on Thursday
reached the noble little city of Grand Gulf, a
deputation of 25 citizens, all of them generous
and brave, jumped on board of the Sultana and
were in Natchez in less than "a hours from the
time of the tempest, ready to lend their aid in
guarding scattered property and administering to
the wants of the sick and dying. Conduct like
this should be registered in letters of gold and we
can pledge to Grand Gulf, that Natchez will ever
bear grateful recollection of the good feeling.
displayed by her citizens in the hour Of our gloom