The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-10-31

. ed as soon as the wind and sea subsidies
, little.
The Bunker Hill is on her side at the
waters edge, above foot of main street
not much damaged. The G w Dole
t high and dry some fifty feet from the wa
t ter. The Columbus IN tho same posi-
ton with the Dole. not much damaged
The steamers Wayne, Constellation
and Perry came in during the car y part
of the night. The latter in making a
f berth ran foul of the Great Western
and sustained considerable injury, carry
ing OF the arboard wheel house and
gunwalcs, The Indian Queen made
port to day safely.
VEssELs.-B:g Queen Charlotte, high
and dry near foot OF Michigan street. -
Schooner Henry Clay, ditto, near Clark
& SINNERS canal.
Buildings Destroyed and Injured -
Roop's Wine lead factory new esta5-
lishment, in which some $4,000 had
SbecnInvestcd, is utterly demolished. King
mans three brick stores foot Of coo,t st.
not quite completed, ali in ruins. The
brick building partially erected by the
Niagara Fails Railroad Co for a depot
near CouEt>st. is mass of ruins, The
new cotton factory slightly injured. -Four
frame cottages, belonging 10 q G, Bristo u,
near Wlikersons foundry, all destroyed,
as are also all the frame cottages aud
dwellings on both sides OF The canal, from
Mechanic-st TO the CITY line, some tbidy
or forty in number. Weliman's coOper>
age and Van Syke s. Co.'S boat yard, in
the same vicinity, are all gone lncud-
ingtimber and tools and steaming apparatus.
Graves & Co.'S ropewaIk, a total loss-na-
chinery, materials, SC. all drfIed off. w
Mead new brick dwelling 90 Courl,st
and some thirty small dwellings occupied
by persons employed in Wilkerson's toun'
dry, all washed away or blown over. A
hat factory near the canal, two frame buIi
dings on Jickson.st.. Guthrie & I3ensons
| backing establishment, and soap factory
adjoining, on he canal, are all gone.
The new b.ick and wooden buildings.
each lO3 by SIS feet, recent erected by
| the At.ica and Buffalo Railroad Company
adjoining the R,ilroad on Chicago street,
are utterly destroyed, scarcely ves'igv
| remains.
A part of the brick dwelling on South
Divsion-st. belonging to J. B. DIbois,
blew down aud crushed the adjoining cot
tage belonging to NJ. w. Dayton. The
escape of Mr. D'ylon and family was
providential. Alarmed by the severity OF
the gale, he and his family arose, and had
Just left their beds when the chimneys and
part Of the wall ofthe adjoining building,
fell and crushed the ROOMS and beds they
had jast left. A portion Of the BRICK slore
corner of Sou!h Division and Main, is de.
sroyed. The bl'llements on the Mr,ho.
dist Church are down. and the s,eeple Of
the Park Church is much Injured, aud
ready 10 fall. McCuloch's brewery al
the Hydraulic Is unfOottd.
Ii several instances small dwellings,
filled with inmates fJated across the llals, |
their shriess, vanly lmpioring assistance,
mingIiny with the howl OF the tempest
Many Of those unhappy creatures peIIsh>
ed before help could De given.
The Aulca and Buffalo railroad track
for the distance Of nearly half mile from
the depot, is completely broken up. The
water filled the depo, 10 he dePh ofatout
five feet, but subsidy1 without doing any
material damage. The entire loss will
amount TO or $4,000
But the most deplorable effect of the
gallo is the destruction of life. How ma
ny lives have been destroyed, it is i'm
possible, as yet to ascertain. twenty-five
bodies of men, women aud children, have
been recovered and taken to the Court
House, for identification by relations
and friends. The bodies Of five children
in ono wagon have just passed our office.
Sixteen persons, men women and chill
dIen,are missing from Wiikcrsons foun
dry. Two servant girls employed at
Hull's Hotel, slept in the basement The
side wall fell in ond filed the room with
water before they could escape, both were
drowned Their names were Helen
Rynam, Irish, and Caiharine Redding. T.
The parents OF the latter live in Collin st
tanned is as follows:
Nine men, ten women aOd thirteen
children, thirty two in all. But a few
have as yet been recognized. Among
the number is man named Smith, who
lived on Elk st his wife and two chill
dren, child of Vim Nelson, living on
Ohio ST. and James Smith, whose body.
was washed up on Seneca st, and was
identified by his wife. Also two families
named Smith, fourteen in all, the heads
of whom were employed at WiIkeson's
furnace, one of them stove mounter,
from Albany, the other mouder, from
Rochester. Also yong man named
PIooC, mouldcr, from Jefferson county.
Mrs StaIcom and three children, recent
ly from Seneca Falls: man named Me,
tot, and another named White, who 70.