The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-23


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II tien sr EEK the city through its whole
.wda ST o mile and included the entire
overland re village Of Nid;!ia on the
inuis NJ hore--making the path of the
iun1aJ more than two miles in width.
he chez Landing on the river the
!ro. dwellings,, stores, steamboats,, flat
u almost entire from the Nldalla
Ita1y o. Mississippi Cotton Press. a
eu IL lgmcnts of dwellings still re-
M. Pm hey can scarcely becalled shell
! tn ~, ppcr city, or Natchez on the
thit r ly house escaped damage or
'uage ruju The Presbyterian and Metho-
aIt ob. hes have their towers thrown
5aa., ,hcI roofs broken and walls SKATER
i-} II Episcopal church is much in
.ne5 5 roof. Parker's great South
gu xchmge is level with the dust
e,ea, mage has been done to the City
p o5, all the Mansion House, both being
lurco5A e. the upper stories broken in.
I'VE house of Sheriff izOd has not TIM
gun .ng, and hundreds of other DWELL
Ing f iarly in the same situation. The
.Cour. I use at Vidalia, parish of Con-
cords, i utterly torn down, their roofs
Gpl. ~ d walls shattered; also the houses
.of Dr ~ Whorter and of Messrs. Dunlap
pd ~, Esqrs. The parish jail is
partly IN down.
Bu w the worse remains to be told.
pri Judge Koeton Of Concordia, was
instant killed while at dinner at the
laa Mr.. Stacy. He was noble
and ,cmeI man. No other person
aa ,EaY Aalthough some others
were IT. y ID zatchez landing, out
90 sixty flat boats, only six are
All at. Those best acquainted sup
lat as many as one hundred flat
1n were drowned in the river,
| Instantly to the height of
III d et.--The steamboats, Kinds.
2 qI,ie. End IT. Lawrence were destroy
ed an, s,uk 1t the landing, and the Vi
o.iIa lgrr5 Dat ON the river-more orr
,.ss sors being lost III the two first
named bom
lrau ,he ,uins of the Steamboat iIo-
fol. Nr III, ander the landlord, his lady.
and h9rl,c r, were dug out alive, as al
$50 = ln he historian and geographer
bud ae~ Natchitoches la. besides
~ and many others. Mrs. Al
asl = j onsidered dangerously injur-
her children were killed in
As many as nine dead bodies
Q from the Steam Boat Hotel.
her of burialS Witch have
& to-day is about fifty, and
i'll i'll dangerous and dying
oen as possible we shall publish a
iisf NJ tic James of the killed. wounded,
aao those missing whose bodice have not
beep found.
Neanvl lie we BEG the indulgence of
our kind fiends and patrons for few
days, IN which time we shall be able to
get our Office in some order. The Free
Trader Office bindings has been crushed
I IN, and mach shattered. We are all in
confusion, and surrounded by the desti-
iGte, ihe houseless, the wounded and the
| dying, Jnr beautiful city is shattered as
,II u had Been stormed by all the cannon
Iuf Aus'e IL.
a ps5i,c meeting has been held by the
cluzepa N the courthouse to-day, al
whcl Col. James c. Wilkins presided,
ard l.. Claiborne, Esq. was Secretary
were delivered by j. NJ. Hewitt
anu Dufheld, Esqrs.. n"d resolu-
rs ed by The latter gentleman and
.o'hs - pointing relief committees, &.r.
I'll q ty Hotel, through the.kindncss
o. lle proprietor, Noah Barlow, Esq. has
,.eu Jhl }vn open to the wounded. Doc.
gor POI ID, with his usual promptitude
las tax 2 the fremont House for an adj.
ldlrQn ospital, Stephen Duncan, Esq
'a IN snerously offered to be respon.
stgie r he rent.
fha eighboring planters are gener-
ously ding in large gangs Of slaves tC
assis n Hearing the streets and digging
Iac de1d from the ruins.
NJ Hlilner and $. j. Boyd, Esqrs.
hAo 3ten at the trouble to 90 over the
lRholC tent of the city. and make prac
: TEAL asacareful estimate of the damages
lNtbieR qe endorse, as far as our obser
ta'en tends, and present TO our readers
, ti4N@ nd goods under the hill, 10000
toa cam boats, 5000,
7 lNfltr tiqtboo,s ut tho IorJ;nn ION M,