The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-09-30

| MORE OF THE GALE.-We nave the following
additional particulars TO give OF the tremendous
| hurricane IN Florida
From the Tallahassee Sentinel, Sept. 10
One more paragraph must be added to the melan-
choly and unprecedented chapter Ut accidents ana
calamitIes which, In fact, sums up the history oi
Middle Florida tor The past three or four years
Wednesday night last must be chronlcIed as an.
other mourniul and fatal page the story of our
mlsfonunes, In the record OF the severe chsstlse
ments with which it has pleased an all-wlse Provi-
dence TO visit our afflicted people. AT sunset on
Wednesday night the unusually deep or, mson glow
OF the western horizon, aud what the sailors Call
" dirty" sky, betokentd to the weather-wi'e the
presence OF one OF those auumnal storms, which OF
late years have been almost uniformly severe Al
that lime I he wind blew moderately E N. E., bui
about hail past eight. hauled around 10 me ~ N,
g., and continued To Increase III strength Cocoa
sionaly veerng in dlrecuou) until IT bl W peritc
hurricane; and al its extreme height wuired about
blew from the w N. W.; then, IN fittul and turi
ous gusts, seemed TO start, In turn, from almost
very point in the compass, till finally II settled H.
N. W, became more steady, gradually lulled,
md Gained at in the morning The whole gall
was accompanied with fl rods OF ram, driven with
almost reslstess fury through nearly every root
down the chlmneys- penetrating every crack and
crevIce through which water could enter, and Hood
ing many houses from the atcs TO their foundations
rhe injury, how ever, sustained in this county Ii
comparatively small No buildings of value were
seriously damaged One OF the gable ends OF the
Drlck store 81 w LOyC, (nOW nearly cOHiptlt)
was driven Ia by the force Of the wInd, and SOM
II IN. slate torn from the roof sIna part of the
w s uf the building no-v erecting en the corner al
Monroe and Adams ,treets, Was blown down -
ioods 10 stores were damased 10 some extern by
Vdter. Fences were prostrated-shade trees torn
up-gardens demolished. u the country, We lean
That the wind has completely leveli.d the cotton,
alks and all, ana probably destroyed the whua
crop hat was expose 10 the full force OF the gale
The GIN house OF Mr.. Joseph Chats bown
way, and with II Some thirty thousand pounds ot
cotton ia the seed. Five bales just packed were
also destroyed The gin house, corn house, aDo
other ont houses on the plantation OF Gen VIM
ied, about five m les from town., were all unrooied
tad destroyed. Great havoc W committed To the
forests and the tail oaks aud pinSs touad mtTc"
rom the tempest Vast numbers were prostrat-d
| rendering nearly all our roads impassabe tor wa
| IONS or carriages But the disasters which beel
our citizens, during that night OF anxiety az
scarcely WORTHY ot mention IN connection with the
woiuI aud neart reDdiIg intelligence which reaches
rs from WaikUlla CouIty.
(From Apslacbicola Watchmap, sept l6)
On Wednesday night we were visited WI n very
severe blow IT shou ddTarIon No damage wac
cone, except to the wharves, and a house occupied
Nv Caspar Horn, thr root OF which was blown of
the damage To the wharvrs il now being repaired
aad all viii be as good as ever IN few days We
Dok on this pre- lmlnary 10 our autumual gale.
could no, nave extended tar vessels coming
to this port, when have since arrived hardly teit It.