Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-11-11

before the wind, but was finally run ashore
after all hope Of saving her was gone, and
In oil probability VIII Be- saved.
All the lives on Indian Key and Ksv
Bacas are saved, and II Il hoped all the
crews Of the wrecking vesselss
The captain Of the cutter Morris saved
the produce, the cargo of one schooner,
and distributed it, through the Methodist
minister, 10 those in need of the necessaries
Of life.
All the warehouses are either blown
down or unroofed at Key West. The
streets are full of lumber, and not six out
of six hundred houses but what are either.
unroofed or blown down. The current
ran six miles an hour through Key West.
The light houses at this place and San
Key are washed away, and not yestige Of
them is to be seen. Some cotton has Drift
ed into the harbor, and some vessel, loaded
with cotton, and not yet heard from, must
have been in the hurricane, and suffered
from its violence. f43 5AS 4stYSa
/ A schooner with new lantern for Tor-
tugus light house is lost, with her cargo.
All hands saved. @ @1s 's'ssA r q
The white water now extends sixty and
seventy miles to the southard Of Tortugns. !
The government will lose by the storm ahss
revenue cutter Morris, and brig Perry, two
light house Qualifications, custom house ard
hospital far from 5000, 600.
Many vessels doubtless will get ashors,
from the fact of Sand Kew LIGHT house be-
ing gone. ts
Dead bodies are occasionally dug out
from under the ruins, and none can tell
how many there are remaining. As far
as ascertained, fifty persons have lost their
lives, and il is singular that 50 few are dead
or injured. q,
Timber, slate, &C., and buildings falling
in every direction. Stone could nctswith-
stand the gale, and all seemed to be going.
to destruction. ! s..7,. ,,f NM
Many persons escaped in boats and held
on to trees, expecting every moment to be-
washed away. The scene was awful In :
the extreme. ~ ss-' '''''+. +@' Ns97' -'-''
The two United States vessels wrecked,
are thus noticed in the list Of marine disas-f
ters in the Picayune: -a ta te2S7% y
~. s. brig Perry, Blake, fromH Havana,
for Charleston, with Com. Sloat on board
from the Pacific, ashore near Sombrero
Shoul, inside ofthe reef, both masts gone;
anchor, guns, 60, thrown overheard. The
vessels lies in II feet water and may be got
of; all hands saved, U. s. revenue cutter
Morris, Walden, ashore about three miles
from Key West, in ~ feet water, with loss
Of both masts, anchors, chains, guns, bull.
warks, &c and one mile from the cham
mel; probably a total loss. a
There is list given Of about thirty ves-
sells ashore and damaged, none Of which,
however, are from this port. .a r.ss
The report Of, the officer Of the cutter
Morris, closes as follows:
son Monday morning, the 18th, we as
certained that the vessel had driffed about
three miles, and was on the northwest
shoaS in two feet of water. Around us lay
vessels Of all descriptions; not one rode out
the harricane in safety. @.s ,.i 81, s.ss,1 ssss A
"One ship near US on her beam ends,
the Eben Preble, Of Boston; two brigs and
three schooners dismasted and ashore ia
about the same depth Of water as we have.
One hull ofa vessel sunk, and four vessels
bottom up. Our decks were covered with
sand, and the bottom appeared to be in.
motion during the hurricane.