The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-11-05
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Dreadful Hurricane AZ Key Wet

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Dreadful Hurricane al Key Wet
Our fAanksTsrs due 10 Commodou
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lowing narrative 81 disasters Al Kew We,
and lhe vicinity during he hurricane a
Ghe llLh inst. The destruction eisee,ed
BY this ealsmilons visitation Is almost un.
preeedenled. Key West has been Fam.
plelely devastated. while vast amount AZ
shipping has been wrecked and DESTROYED.
All the warehouses on the island wers q.
iher blown down or unTo0fed. and Of he
six hundred houses bur SIX have esraped
The effects Of The tempest The rurreu,
ran through The town n the rate Of ar
Mills an hour. and was 1--WE feet in depth.
The Lighthouses Al Key West and Sand
Key are all washed away, and not YES.
Iige 10 leli 10 mark The spot where ihey
stood. Among the shipping The havoc
was frighlful. The Barracks were but
slightly injured, The chimneys being blown
Of the roofs.
The U. s. brig Perry, Lieut.. Blake
commanding, having on board commO-
dore Sloal. went ashore near Sombrero
shoal, inside The reel. with both masis
gone. anchor. guns, &c. thrown overheard.
She lay in ten feet water, and might Be
got of. All hands saved.
The revenue cutter Morris went ashore
about three miles from Key West in two
and half feet water, with the lOss Of both
masts, anchor, chains, guns, boats. bull.
warks, &c. She lay one mile from The
channel. and is probably total loss. No
lives lost.
The pilot boat Lafayette was sunk. and
all on board lost; two ladies picked up
BY the cutter Morris. The Spanish schoo-
ner Villa Nueya. for Neuyilas, ashore
vessel and twenty lives lost, including a
woman and child; one man being saved
by the U. s. brig Perry. The schooner
Sarah Churchman rode out the gale on
Bahama Banks, in company with ship
Adeline, with fifty passengers on board,
OOuuu iOE gsGN ottealss
Most of the vessels engaged in wreck.
ing were lost or sustained great injury.
Only one wrecker was leii 10 continue the
business. The Eliza calharine was high
and dry in a garden al Key Vaccas. and
one OF the brigs ashore was three hundred
feet above high water mark. Four or five
vessels in the vicinity Of hey West were
bottom up, and one upon the reef was
known tn have been lost, with all hands.
About twenty vessels were ashore on the
reef. their cargoes being Of no value.
! The Government will lose by the loss
Of the brig Perry, revenue cutter Morris,
two Lighthouses, Notifications, custom
house, and hospital, not far from $500, 900.
Many vessels will doubtless get ashore,
from The fact Of Sand Key light house be-
ing gone.
Dead bodies were occasionally being
dug out from under the ruins, and no one
can tell how many there arc remaining.
As far as has been ascertained fifty per-
sons have lost their lives, aud il is singu.
lar that so few are dead or injured, when
we remember that the air was full Of
boards, timber, slate, dc. and buildings
falling in every direction. Stone itsell
could not Withstand the gale, and every
thing seemed TO be going 10 destruction.
Many persons escaped in boats and held
on to trees, expecting every moment to be
washed away. The scene was awful be-
yond all power Of description.
THE account in the Bee gives the
names of great number Of vessels, in ad.
di,ion to the above, that have suffered
shipwreck or serious disaster; but, though
the loss of property must be very great!
we do not observe any other wrecks which
were accompanied with loss Of life.