Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-11-12
GREAT HURRICANE in CUBA

GREAT HURRICANE IN CUBA.
The correspondent Of the New Orr
leans PicsyuHe gives the following ac-
count of the destructive hurricane which
swept over the Island Of Cuba on the
5lh ult.
HAVANA, Oct. 8, 1874.
DEAR PIC.-The Stern Spirit has Wis,
tied as, aad in his widest mood. The
year ls44 will long be remembered in
the annals Of the devoted Island OF Cuba.
FIRST intestine cUmmotiOns aud threat.
ened servile war. Then drought and
famine; and nov We have 10 record one
Of the most devastating gales that has eV
er visited Tbs country. On the ID inst.
we had slight gale from the n, E which
continued uull IhN morning Of the Sd,
when it sbated. The wind was still high
during That day and the next, and on the
night Of The 4th il commenced blowing
from the s. E., sRd GbOut 3, A. M, OF
the 5ih it hauled to N. w., and became
a perfect hurricane. The worst Of the
gale was felt between 7 and 10. A. NJ
Of The 5th, when the barometer stood at
% degrees, its lowest point.
The destruction on shore has been be.
yond description. Houses on All sides
blown down, burying their inhabitSnts un'
der the ruins, the largest trees stripped
Of their branches, or torn up BY the roots
everything flooded with wRteT,tha poured
in torreRls,aad almost every known bridge
within twenty miles carried away. With
in a small circuit Of three miles, whore
stood 400 royal palms crown OF the
vegetable wOrld--but 80 are now left
the trees on the Paseo were all blown
down; enc side Of the TaucOn theatre un'
rooted; the building at the TailrsGd de
posit also unroOfed, and the shsd en- the
wharf blown dovn--kiIling three persons
and seriously wOunding . sentinel.
From the country the accOuniS are
dreadful. Cattle killed BY The falling o.
their stAbles--ths houses demOlShede'
coffee trees, ease and everything pros
tratsd--Ihs corn crop almost whOIly de
StrOysd, sAd = plaintain tree is not to b'
found.
In the harbor the destruction has beer
horrible. Seventy six schOOnsrS are coun
ted on shore the steamer NstchCz driver
up almost dry. Thirty coasters are al
ready known to have sunk; Spanish
schooner OF war dismasted; and the bril-
Trenton of Boston, has nothing standing
higher than the pumPs--ths bOwSprit ev
. en- broken of. The men Of war steam
\ ers had 10 get up Steam 10 help their an
chOr TO hold.
The American vessels thst have sui
fsred serious iajury ere the following:-
n Brig Trenton. OF Boston entirely disma'
ted, ship o. Colon, Of New York; hor:i
bly, chafsd and dis6gured, barquS Chic
Of Boston, stern stove in, and Siherwis
/, badly injured, balQuO Louisa, sfPhilads
phia, larboard side cut down, and othC
serious dsmage-schr. Mary Shields,
y Savannah, cut down and came very ne'
: sinkiRg-schr. TOsso, of Mobile, arrive
4 day after the gale--ibrew over deck load
split sails and vessel strainsd--brig Tit
Of New Orleans, horribly ehafed and CT
y up.-brig P. B Blount, of Now Yorl
J. stern badly chOfed through. The chi
. EbrO, Crosby, from your port for HOvr
= was lost about 20 miles 10 lesWard--vsi
sci gone to pieces, some little cargo sa'
cd on the beach--ship POr6OnnSt,
Boston, from your port, arrived to da
dismastsd and leaking-SpSnish brig
70 war Cubano, lost about twenty miles
q windwArd-Spanish brig AVisO lost Abou
Or one mile from the sMSTo--shs left this pO
'e the dsy before with l3O soldiers on fu
IL Tough, and about 20 other passengers al
Q, crew-only 5 have been saved, and tbs
at lives are dSsPared of,frOm bruises rScei
30 ed in getting on shOre-SpaniSh brigSa'
gOsanO lest--Ihrse persons drowned.
What other calomities may have eccurFe
| am not now informed.
& WheB the tempest begsh 10 calm, q
is every one was still in CONSERVATION ban
or Of negroes began their dreadful wOrk
al murder and pillags, and about one tho
sand troops were called out 10 patrol.
'OE II Matanzss, st twenty nine vessels
IRE port, only two remain aAOst, the rest I
u. gOne 10 Peicss OF asbOrs, The ds'as
~ 10 the towR is incsleuablo. The riV,
" rSse, and each side Of the town was I
'rA' der water, 5000 boxes sugar lest. G
dsnas 10 wholly destroyed,
Ia order TO -assuags the buTthens OF
sep people, the following order has been
last sued. InPertaticn sor six months e
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