The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-10-23

protects tho harbor is seriously injured for many rods
in length. The whole extent OF wharfage from The
ship canal to the foot Of illinois street Is much dam
aged, and in many places totally destroyed. Oi
course large amount Of property sal, &c. lying on
the wbaryes, Is lost
The food was heavily felt by the staye dealers
Sherman has 900 drifting over The Hats Har-
beck has some $4,000 also drted up towards the ny
draulic works
The whole Of the lower floors Of the warehouses
on the harbor have been submerged
Buildings destroyed and insisred.Roops white lead
factory, new establishment, Ia which some o2O,Ooo
had been invested Is utterly demolished, nothing but
mass Of ruins lett kingman Ihree brick stores,
foot OF Court street, not quite completed all IN runs
The brick building partially erected by the Niagara
Falls RaiIroid Company for depot near Court street
is mass OF ruins. The cotton factory, slightly
injured -Four framed cottages belonging 10 &. 4.
Bristol, near Wiikerson's foundry all destroyed, as
also all the frame cottages and dwellings on both
sides Of the canal from Mechanics street 10 the city
line, some thirty or forty ia number. Welmans
cooperage aud Van Slyke & Co.'S boat yard, In the
same vicinity, are all gone including timber and tools
and sieaming apparatus. Graves & Co 5 rope walk
total loss, machinery, materials, etc. all drted IN
w. Mead's new brick dwelling on Court street and
thirty small dwellings occupied by persons en-
ployed IN Wilkerson's touodry, all washed away or
blown away. hat factory near the canal, two
frame buildings Jackson street. Gurthries& Ben
sons planning establishment, and soap factory adjoln-
ing, on the canal, all gone.
On the ship canal near Darts elevator, are the re-
mains Of three four buildings, thrown INTO mass
OF shapeess ruins, TO whom belonging We were una
bic TO learn. On the peninsula between the lake
and barbor, several small wooden buildings, and
large number Of cattle, we're swept away. Many OF
The warehouses along the hsrbOr were considerably
injured IA their roofs. The water feet in
the glass works of p. Hodge Il Co., and destroyed
large amount stock and ware hand.
The new brick store, nearly completed, belonging
to F. G. Hatch, corner OF Exchange and Washington,
is totally destroyed. The brick and wooden
buildings, each 1913 by So feet, recently erected by
the Atiica and Buffalo railroad company ad Joining
the railroad Chicago street, are utterly destroy
ed, scarcely vestige being left Bush's new moroc
co factory, large wooden building, just completed
has been lifted from It's substantial stone foundation
A part of the brick dwelling on South Division
street, belonging to J. b. Dubois blew down and
crushed the adjoining wood cottage belonging to |
M. w. Dayton The escape of Mr. Dayton and
family was providen,iaI Alarmed by the severity of
the gale, he and all his family arose, and had just
lett their beds when the chimneys and part of The
wall of an adjoining building fell and crushed the
rooms and beds they had just left portion of the
brick store corner OF South Division and MAN. is de-
stroycd. The battlements the Methodist church !
are down, and the stetple of the Park church is
much injured, and ready TO fall McCullochs brew
cry at the hydraulics is unroofed
The warehouse belonging to O. Lee occupied by
e. A. French, above w 4shington street. is unroofed
and was filled with water. The upper part of the
new elevator IS carried away, and frame dwelling
adjoining the warehouse nearly demolished.
in several instances, small dwellings filled with |
inmates oated across the flats, their shreks yainly
implorlng assistance, mngling with the wild howl Of |
the tempest Many of those unhappy creatures per-
shed before help could be given
The Attica and Buffalo railroad track for the dis
lance OF near a half mile from the depot is COM
petely broken up The entire loss stained by the
company IN buildings, injury TO the road, &c will
amount 10 three or four thousand dollars
Bot the most deploIable effect of the gale is the |
destruction Of life. How many lives have been des-
troyed, it is impossible, yet, to ascertain Twenty
five bodies OF men, women and child en- have been
recovered, and taken 10 the Court House for denti-
fcanon by relations and friends. The bodies Of five
chlldien In one wagon have Just passed office.
Sixteen persons, m' D. women and children are
missing from WikesJn's foundry Two servant Girls
employed at Huhs Hotel, slept in the basement-I
he Sidewalk Tell IN and filled tie with water
before they could escape Both were drowued.
Thus far the number of dead ascertained is as fol-
lows :-tine men, ten women, and thirteen children
lhlry-two in all. But few have as vet been recog
nised
These are in brief the PARTICULARS of this disaster
so TAI as We have been able gather hem this morn
ing he loss of property it mpossl bic to est innate
but IL lar exceeds any occas oned BY any previous
gale, and must amount to many ihnnsand- dollars
Great numbers OF families have lost every thing
rom the south side of Seneca street, down 10 the
haboi, and sweeping round below the Terrace TO the
no thern bounds of the city, the whole is s,rev ed
with the wreck o. this terrible gale, Houses are sub
merged and blown down, canal boats are sire ed in
small fleets quarter of mile more from the har-
Dor and canals, and acres covered with broken
fragments of dwellings, lumber, barrels, wood,
staves &c.
Z. S.-3, p. NJ. The storm is still threatening
The new brig Uncle Sam, Capt. Vail, is just in with
a full cargo. Her sails and spars are much torn and
broken. The schooners Marion and Robert Wood
also made the barber in safety
The steamboat Fulton we hear has gone ashore
total wreck, at Sturgeon POint-three men lost.