The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-11-01
Further Particulars OF the Terrible Gale At
Key West-The Destruction OF Life and
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SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE NEW YORK HERALD OFFICE.
Key WEST, Oct. Ia, 1886.
We are here in the midst of of the awful vi
stations hurricane, the 18th inst swept over the
island and there is not house that is not injured Many
hav. been swept into the sea-oihers crushed; and
amid the blasts Of the storm the rush OF came
to close the scene of terror and dsmsy Every building
is unroofedfamilies destitute of every thing
every vessel in port is dsmased or bilged save one
schooner Sand Key light is gone with all of its in
mates. Key West light, with fourteen persons was
swept away and all of the works Of the United States
in progress here, entirely destroyed The sea roll
ed in from the southwark and westward and we had 10
wade amid the sweeping waves bearing the ruins of
dwellings spars and the timber of the bridges
and Stats and bricks and boards flying through the air
higher ground, for safety. God be praised the loss
of life thus far is small when the dreadful character of
the visitation is before Some spent the night in the
woods Families we're packed closely in every available
Graves unrooied; the u s Marine Hospital terribly
injured but Dr. Peabody and the inmates safe The
custom house is nearly destroyed the Episcopal church
level with the ground; the Methodist heap of ruins
The cutter Morris in about two feet waterfall hands
safe; the brig Colorado of Boston, disasted the Gen
wilson, do schooners H. II Stafford do; Gov. Bennett,
do; Mississippi do; Catherine H. Bacon, do; English
schooner Ellen do pilot boats Lafayette and Louisa
sunk. The barracks fortunately were not injured,
and the houseess there many it will accommo
DATE. SymuBtons Duliunk Is occupied Idmlues eDQ
every nook and corner where head can be got into, is
crammed. No lives lost board the vessels from
the North. Their passengers (among whom were seve
raj ladies and chdren) fortunately got ashore Thus
far, we know of twenty five lives destroyed
May not hope that the liberal and benevolent will
take this visitation to heart and that in this hour Of
need, taey will array themselves on the side Of mercy
and do good in the impulse of brotherly love. House.
less the child and its mother must suffer much
We raise nothing the sland-and cattle, such
they We're destroyedhunger threatens and should
sicknessiensne, there is limiting the progress Of
,~h .l,,,1,. fonI I'D
the schooner Denis in dismasted last night the
brig Napoleon was towed in dismasted the schooner
brought down here large round stern vessel bottom
up with tobacco and slaves the brig Commissary high
and dFy about six miles from here and this morning
disastrous of her loss-all hands saved. We have
no news from Tortugas and entertain great fears Of its
safety. Nothing from wreckers at the windward ;
it was scarcely possible for them to live but yet
hope they safe At hapast 10 the waters subsidized
and like the Dove Of DID, went forth seeking the dry
land God of Heaven who tell the anguish Of that
weary, weary nghtl The .howlng Of the wind-the
bruises and death-the swelling up of the waters in
front and rearthe wild shrek Of women and children
the gurgng dying sound Of some swimmer in his
shadow its reality. have been in several scenes of
danger and deathstood firm in battleand reached an
he
pestilence around and suffered from the muddy.
ngs of fortunes moabut this hour of distress nearly
unnamed me-a wife and child had to save-and God
be thank'd, we were saved.
This day about the wrecker sloop Texas"
came down with Capt Crowell and crew Of the ship
Warsaw bound to I oulon arrived with cargo. as
well the cargo Of French ship which was wrecked
previous to the gale and totally lost in the hurricane
smack Marion. The boat Democrat brings the captain
and crew Of the Spanish brig Lincedora, from BARGE
lightship Key West lived through the gale, though dr
from her moorings and will be in tomorrow All
Of the w e to are either the r Or
rida, as well as sloop America. From Tortugas, we
learn the Light ship safe, but the George Edrdge is
dismasted. and smack Charleston is high up.
Oct l5thThe bark:Francis Watts Pc kins of Boston,
from Havana with sugar, coffee, and segars for New
York is dsmssted. Bark Iris, Dillingham;
ter total loss Key vacas. The smack Huron has just
brought in NIX barrels provisions and l52 bags Of
from her-captain and crew saved.
will write you more fully.
The captain and of the wrecker Morris have
done great credit to themselves in zeal to %
ga,her the dead, and save property
Commodore sloa with important dispatches, is on
board the Perry. The CALIFORNIA; taken, and the
Commodore will probably be down tonight.
KEY WEST, Oct. 7th, ls46.
Arrived, Oct. 6th Steam ship Virginia, Tucker Phila,
bound to New Orleans; brig Colorado, Shackelfred,
Boston, bound TO Cedar Keys; wascaer, Perry, New.
to Apalschicola schr Commodore Kearney, Payne,
N. Y, bound to Cedar Keys H. W. Stafford McFariane,
bound to Mobile Mississippi Williams N. Y, bound to
Tampa Bay. Get 7th, schr. Catherine H. Bacon. olt
~ bound .. 10 p sIaao' 4c sn Ellen Green Turtle
ginia, N Orleans brig Wascaller, st Marks.
The big Colorado fell 10 with brig Josephine, of
sundry packages of dry goods sold this day at auction
amounting to,l5 or 1000 dollars Schr. II. w. Ssford
in lat "a go Ion S. sprung her mainmast carried away
foremost head bobsays ga sc bore away for the
nearest port and came in here she will ret at this port
schr Catherine II. Bacon, lost main boom 27th ut
Schr Gov Bennett got ashore Green Turtle Key Ba
hamas got off with assistance The Gov. Bennett had
two slaves on board, on their way to Baltimore which
emancipate once This created feeling and final
ly blows between them, and her Majestys other sub
ects of the island but finally the whites got the ascen-
dency and the slaves per Gov Bennett, will probably,
excitement among the blacks and whites at the Key,
but We have no doubt they are as usual. cheek by
jow" and all grievances settled In brotherly amty
From the New Orleans Times Oct. 2s]
We learn with infinite feelings Of sorrow and regret
that awful visitation Of Providence lately at
Key West which has rendered desolate the homes OF
property, both public and private On sunday, the 18th
Of October gale of wind Of unexampled fairy blowing
from the northwest took place in the Gulf and success
sivey shifting to almost every point OF the compass
without relaxing in intensity strewed the whole OF the
Florida shore with wrecked vessels and fragments OF
vessels which unfortunately happened be in that vci
nifty. The town of Key West may be said to have been
laid entirely PROSTATE by this melancholy
scarcely half dozen houses remaining unreofed The
water forced in the streets that in places
several feet Deep The light houses at Key West
in which there sixteen persons, and at Sand Key,
vestge Of anything like building foundation of
building, remainngand the whole Of the unhappy be-
ngs VINO were there exposed TO the fury OF the tempest
were lost The fort was also desroyed-cassons, SC.
sc. being quite swept away; the damage sustained by
government, in the destruction Of public works. being
estimated to be not less than three hundred thousand
dollars The whole of the wreckers of subsis-
tence in their craft stores Sc &c have come to end;
all being either submerged, wrecked, otherwise
injured as to be perfectly rreparable.
Many Of the vessels which were in the harbor have
been thrown high and dry the land, what
formerly the site Of the town, looking in
cases, like Ships briggs and schooners the stocks,
in building yards, which, by some convulsion
Of the earth, had been thrown out Of their po-
sitioRs, il in mockery Of the workmen's toll and
art 1t appears from the testimony of those who were
on the sp0t-Key West-at the time of the occur
beheld the dashed into such fury by the wind;
never had they known gale of such severity, and
which continued undated for great length Of time
II lasted, indeed, from Saturday night until Monday
morning. now blowing from the northeast now shifting
from that point the souhe and again enactng the
wellknown phenomenon Of seemingly coming from all
points of the compass at the moment. Spanish
brig turned bottom up-a on board having perish.
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