Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-10-26
TERRIBLE GALE-GREATL LOSS or LIFE
AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AT
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Dl ALL.
Buffalo was visited on Friday night BY one Of
the Most >evcrc and destructive gales ever exre-
rienccd. Tie whole lower part ot the city. ex-
tending into Seneca street On the EaS, side Of
Alain strcci presents one general scene of wreck
and deSo.alion, throuS:C 1t the whole length Of the
CITY,
ihc water was all Of two feet higher than il
has ever been known before.
In addition 10 the immense loss oiprorcry NJ
have 10 record still more melancholy results IN The
death of large number o, human heires
Several Of The wharycs were washed down.
aud many vessels carried away from their Moor
ing> and wrecked. Houses, TOO were taken up
hv the wind and waves, and swept away with
their inmates to destruction Large buildings
were lcvclled with the groun9-rairoads torn up,
&c. We have not room for tie particulars To-
day. One Paper says:
up 10 ii O'Clock, twcnty.:even dead bodies
had been brought 10 The Court House
Six children, drowned in the vicinity Of Wiike-
sons foundry-namcs moi asceriaincd. Also, five
grown persons-hrcc females and Two males
Among them Mrs Smith ana two Of her chill
drer-liitle girls Mrs O'Bren and her child
a little girl ;bou! three years old.
One lad, about III years Old name not krown,
was drowned while attempting 10 save the life OF
Mis-. Smith. The body OF Il man WIS brorgh, in
which had evidently been drowned some day.
The body OF a lille gill was found under The
workshop OF Mr.. Swain, near the foot oi Eagle
street.
A. near is We can learn, the numler missing
and not yet found i ID, making The Whole num-
Der lost or missing, II.
The bodies brought in are mostly foreigners,
German and l,i>h, aud were drowned from ,ma!l
ien"nien,S on the flats
Dcad bodies are constantly arriving The room
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missing friends and relatives
TIE Julia Palmer still rides al anchor Off in
the Bay AT , O'Clock, p. NJ, Saturday, tie wind
somewhat Sulsiaing. Two horses swan ashore
from her, this morning. having washed or been
thrown overheard.
Thomas Hshmcs escaped with his wife by
taking refuge on the Icoi of his house He had
lusl finished and mo"ed into his house on the
ncach of The lake, rear The 'Stone house" having
been married but few days before. He osl every
thing but his house, which was noalcd quite 4
distance from il, foundation.
Two servant girls were drowned in the cellar
kitchen OF Hul's Hotel! One of them was IN
Irish girl named Ellen Bynam, who has no rcla-
lions ia This county Tie other was an Amcri-
can girl named Catharinc Eet:ny, whose pa
rents reside at Collins in this COUNTY.
At IL o'clock, the bodies had not been recover
Cd i,on the cellar. Two other girls were also
asleep in the same pant OF The house, who barely
ESCAPED BY breaking through the windows.
Another paper Says:-llow many lives have
been destroyed it is impossible, as YET 10 aScer-
tain. Twenty-Five bodies of men. women ami
children have been recovered and taken To he
Courthouse for Identification by relations and
friends. The bodies OF li"e children in one way
gon have just passed on oiiice Sixteen persons,
men, women AMI chil3Ica, are missing from
Wilkcson's foundry.
Nine men, tn Wo.neG, and thirteen children
ihIty-iwo in all. Bul a few have .. vet been re-
cosn.2a3. Among the nUmscr Is Il man named
Smith, Who lived On Elk 81, Ms wife @rd Two
children child ot VIM. Nelson living IN Ohio
81. ani James Smith. whose lody va, washed
up on Seneca -. and was Identified by his wife
Also Two l&;ailic> Gaincj Smith fourteen in III
the heads Of waoil were employed II " iil,tsoh's
furnace, one ol rnen Il scvc-mouutsr from Aha
ny. The ohera moulier fem Rochester. Also Il
Young man named Plooi. moul'cr, from Jctlcr-
son county. Mrs. Stalcum and three children
/ recently IRON Seneca Fails: man named Me
tot, ard another named White who resided d,
/ Wi,iiamsyillc.
The man who kep; the boat house on he pc
ninsula--Uc think his name was Gilber-wiih
his sen and 4 son ot the widow Oser, were all
drowned. The boat house hccptr and >or. about
Gayiighl. attempted 10 swim across The creek.
+ uul "clc s"' s. "o"I ~ t"e MY, '"li'"'
These are in iiic! The particulars OF This disas-
Ter so FAR as NC have seen a.lc 10 gather them
. lhs morning Tie loss Of properly ii is imro>>-
Die 10 estimate; hut il far exceeds any occasoncd
bv any previous gale, and must amcnn, to many
thousands Of dollars. Crca, Numbers Of families
have lost every Thing.
p SIS, p. NJ. Saturday The storm is still
threatening. The new big Uncle sam, Captain
Vail. is jas, in with Il full carGc. Her sails and
spas are much torn and broken
Two hand> we're lot .iom Tie canal boat Suavi-
The funeral Of Nj. s:ollisel's family per
sons. wife and 3 ch:ttcn--will take place to-mor-
row morning al o'clock, from the binding known
a. the Marine Hospital
Tie steamboat Fulton, We hear his gone
ashore, a total wreck, al Surge n Point. Thee
men lost.