Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1840-05-29
From The Natchez Free Trader.
MORE OF THE TORNADO AT
NATCHEZ

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and far too faint sketch Of the ruin which |
has beiallen our noble-spirited yet devoted
city The estimate is more than FIVE
MILLIONS OF DOLLARSl
There are numerous dwellings in the
lower as well as upper city, where every
item Of furniture, and clothing, and oraa-
ment, was given TO the gyralons ofthe whirl-
wind, and lost irrevocably Many ladies
lost elegant and valuable wardrobes, and
were dependent on friendship for the initial
ves,ments with which they covered them
selves after they had been reduced 10 state
of almost entire nujity-by tornado, which
was wri,hing lin the sweat of its greatest
agony" and eaping from tower to tower
with delirious bound"
The beautiful and splendid villa of An
drew Brown. Esq, at which place the most
gorgeous and splendid fete ever given in
this city 10 the city guests from Vlcksburg,
last year, is totally ruined. The cost OF its
erection was sixty or seventy thousand dol
lars The mansions Of Peter Little, Esq,
md Mrs Linton, on the bluff fronting each
other at about mile distant, out.rode the
storm, and escaped with the loss Of chin
s MES, and the dismanlling Of some OF the
sfriezes and architectural ornaments.
The Nachez Theatre is a pile of shape.
less ruins, beyond recovery. The entire
! square, surrounded by the wall, and partly
covered BY the pile ofthe railroad depot, late
one Of th. largest and noblest edi6ces OF the
kind in any city in the Union, is covered
with the wreck oltower, walls and roofs.-
From this immense mass oil rubbish several
Wounded persons and dead bodies have been
dug, and the work Of removing the huge
pile OF brick and timber has been but just
commenced.
From. the immense ruins OF Parker's
Southern Exchange, Messrs. Parish and
Bemis weIe dug alive, after confinement OF
an hour or two, and the dead body oil Moses,
most valuable servant; 1t is possible that
there NAV be one ortwo more bodies still in
those ruins.
The Planters Hotel, formerly called
"Our House." situated on the blow Of the
bluff, was blown down the precipice. Many
Ssnen were known 10 have been in the house
at the time; and it has become painful
Nv evident to the senses tina. the rapid decom'
position OF flesh is going on under the tim
bers of that house.
Eleven dead bodies have been taken from
thv ruins ofthe Steamboat Hotel. which have
Colonel Surget, Mr. Crossgrove, and others
generously sent by those wealthy planters
or the number and names of the dead we
cannot now speak with certainty This
subject is committed by public meeting t.
committee OF three gentlemen, who WI
soon report as soon as any certainty can b'
arrived at The Natchez Guards and thu
order Of Odd Fellows have both followed
4 their dead ITO that bourne whence no traVe
Ter returns"
Ga Thursday last, the heavy rains DIES
troyed the railroad from Bakers Creek II
Clinton, distance of IL miles. Bridges
iron. entertainments. culverts, &c, were com
1plelely carried away.
From the Natchez Coarierl
People are leaving Natchez every hour
and BY midsummer, il the present spirit pre-
sails, we shall have ltlle else than ruined
deserted city.
The citizens and soldiery of Vicksbur
left Natehez yesterday, at o'clock.
The wounded OF the storm are all unde
rood attention and if medical aid and ski
can accomplish their recovery, they wi
soon be upon their feet in the "god-like a
titude of man" DR.. Pollard has under hi
charge about twenty-five, and other phys
-eians of the city have wounded cases TO til
y number of fifty or sixty.
The Mississippi is rising rising!l IN
ing !!i-and the lowands will this sun
n,er know nothing but ruin ruin rum
The very elements seem TO conspire again
us. Amid it all, let our conduct be PR
dent, and our language reverentlal;, ).
The meeting Of Thursday will decIc
ahe fate OF Nalchez. Those who have pov
er and wealth, will have to dec are upon n
destiny of the still devoted city. 10 u
senliment OF that meeting let us look and
here is still hope for the rebuilding an
Continuance of our city, let "Hope" light
% to new achievements. When hope,
los, to the mind, then let darkness and de
pair do their worst. but not until then
We refrain from publishing any esllma
ofthe loss of life s. property by the torna'
of Thursday; both are incaiculaole; al
.Aeures. though honorable orators, cam
now rate the amount Of loss or the blight
4 condition of Natchez. Should rain and
wind come upon us in few days, eve
building still standing in our streets
mink 10 The earth. and all the city wall be
s better than heap OF ruins
f. We know public house in Nalch'
without roof tina, has refused little tea
4 she sick. That house may seek to be pro
~ "A avclne;ve hut il can never engage I