The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-11-03
Serious Injury to the Crops.
THE LOSS OF NEW YORK VESSELS.

AT KEY WEST.
Great Loss Of Life.
&C., &c.
The following extracts from letters received BY
| gentlemen in this city,
HAVANA, Oct 10, ls4o.
Out Of one hundred and sixteen vessel
in port about hundred either totally lost or vsry
much damaged.
The sugar crop the island 10 said to be injured t.
the amount of two hundred to two hundred and fit,
thousand boxes The coffee crop is almost wholly do
sroyed The banana pantain and orange are near
| ly all ruined
Extract of letter OF 18th October, to the Owners
HAVANA, Oct ls, Is46
Npains m, sadly to be witness the wreck of your
beautiful Mudara, almost before eyes, the harbor
and that her days thus icay ended Who would
have thought that such would have been her fate little
more than two week ago, when leaving your gay por
with her pennants streaming aloft, and walking the
waters like thing Of life But such is her melancholy
history There she lies the north side of the passage
to the harbor about halfway between the fish mark
and the Punta-aying her broadside, with about five
feet Of water in her bge her after part laying high upon
the rocks and the tide GIBBS and flows the vessel She
will be total loss and little regret felt here at the
short passage out Of nine days.
Yours, very trnly, sc.
from the Bermuda Gazette, Oct 2O1
By the arrival yesterday of the steamer Thames Cant
Hast N, We have been attentvely favored with the
particulars OF an awful hurricane hch visited Havana
on the 10th and 18th instant
The Thames was at the Havana at the time, but for
tunatey w three other vesels only out gale in
safefy.
The sheers at the Navy Yard are blown down
The wharves are torn up and much injured and are
covered with wrecked property The town has suffered
comparatively little but the suburbs especially the Cerro
Horcon, Colon and tn Lazaro very much In Reela also
the damage done rghtfu in one house alone OF rahe
out OF its ruins were dug IL corpses What is the total
number Of lives lost not yet known The Theatre Ia
con has suffered good deal the Theatre Principal Is
ruins At the height the hurricane the barometer was
n "a In 1874 it was % ~
vEssELs AsHoRE SUNK
.. Ten British merchant vessels. Among them we no.
toe the Agnes Jane, Richardson otay dismased fast
Of sugar on board) Nneteen vsmer;ean .S;n, 6orI''
Drugs and sehooners, thrtyhree Spanish two Russian,
two Bremen, four Danish, two Belgian Dutch, four
French, one Austrian and Brazilian The Regla
ferry steamers and Matanzas steamers are some sunk
some ashore and useless.
SHIPS OF WAR.
French frigate Andromede, co. Rear Admiral La Place
fast ashore French corvette Blonde 90 ashore mats
gone. cspszed-lost French steamer Tonnerre masts
and funnel gone, and serious damage Spanish brig Ha.
bapero 20, Vice Admiral Rbers, safe and sound Spa
nsh brig Constitution, 10, totally lost gone to pieces
l. wrscSed-in pieces Spanish schooner Habanero--
ashore: Spanish schooner Polka, wrecked-in pieces
Tuaniba wrecked-in pieces. Spanish steamer Monte.
yuma, ashoe-foremast gone bowsprit and bows knock
nsh brig Traeno quarantine SuiH le
The rapid fall Of the barometer, and the general ap.
earance Of the weather from 10 A. M of October TO-
Havana, led the Inhabitants to apprehend coming storm
At 10 NJ terrible hurricane in the barometer in
English inches beng at that hour at 20 deg So min the
thermomeer 80 deg, the wind blowing in strong squalls
from NE. At midnight the barometer was % deg so
min At M of the llh, the barometer had fallen to
10 deg ~ sec but the Thermometer still stood at so deg
had from IN
and the squalls had become furious Ate1A the baro-
meter wa, 30 deg ssc with the wind very violent and
changing between E. and NV. At GA NJ. the bsro.
meter wa: 80 deg. sec, and the thermometer at 70
The wind by this time continued Hurricane until half
NORTH with the Barometer as low as 27a 74n At m
the wind was w N w.. with hard squalls. Al noon the
ss I:n 70 ~ The wns still
these quarters AT p m the Barometer had risen to
as' 81" with the wind at w. N: w. and West. At4p
the wind still blowing in squalls and the Barometer at
%" the Thermometer again at e0a Att p the Baro-
meter was at 29s 30".
lFrom the New Orleans Picayune, OctQ5I
gale The ship slas Holmes arrived yesterday from New
York. She felt the gale the 2th inst and suffered no
damage but on the goth saw ship ashore between Key
The Courier Of last evening has the following para
graph rap in n relation to the subject .
rience, with whom We have conversed that the late gale
or rather tornado did not extend far the
the squadron on Vera Cruz 1t believed that the great
SWELL experienced OF Brazos Santiago which prevented
the mails from being put on board the Galveston was
caused by that tornadobut very little wind blowing
where the steamer lay. If this be co. Com Corners
ships were safe from all damage"
Since writing the above we have learned more from
Havana Three French vessels of war lying in that
harbor were very much injured but it is not said they
were positively lost.
The American bark Madeline, Capt shankland from
this port sunk in the harbor We do not know whe.
Their she had discharged her cargo.
The brig p. Soule, Capt Delvaillc arrived at Hsvana
the l4th inst from this port safe The brig iti Cant
Brown arrived there on the 9Th from this port Whether
:ns was injured in the gale we are not informed Our
informant says that from thirty to fifty vessels were more
or less injured.
There j. mystery about this business, but the news
We give has been in town since Thursday evening.
From the savannah Georgian, Oct. 10
By the brig Cybeie, Captain Merrill arrived at this
The recent gale experienced all along this coast was
also felt with much violence at Havana and did consid
cradle injury to the city and to the shipping in port 1t
was one Of the most severe gales that has been expo
the Of the brig Mohawk wrecked at Havana in the
gale VINO came passenger in the Cybes, we are indebt
ed fer the following particulars -
During the hurricane the city was dangerous from
tops Of the houses these lay about in every direction
and were In many instances, carried by the wind to
great distance The beautiful palmetto and other trees
which adorned tho Garernoro Square, were broken and
sronge., about nine o'clock, At which time it shifted
he air was filed with dense clouds of spoon drio or
salt spray which i was impossible to face This spray
carried for half a league into the country and
deuged the houses entering every crevce and aoodne
the streets The surf and spray seen to dash
the lantern of the light house on the Moro Castle
Many houses were blown down or unroofed and
among them, the Tacon Theatre, which was partially
unrooied and received other damage The were
neatly deserted except by occasional detachmens of
soldiers ordered to Different posts TO give assistance
where il needed.
The beautiful Passao the fashionable drive and prone
made Of the citizens, suffered in its shrubs trees PLANTS
and after the hurricane many forcbly detained to
assist in removing the rubbish and from the sire
An occasional pedestrian might be flying
he appeared willing to CO. borne by the irresistible force
OF the wind which swept through the long
with incredible force
But the wharves presented the most disastrous specta
cle-shps barks, briggs and schooners, crowded
top of the Others three tier deep, sunk wrecked, dis
masted or totallylcrushed TO pieces with the owners,
captains and sailors gazing upon the scene OF desruc on
Some vessels known be in the hsrbor previous to the
hurricane have disappeared and their fate left 10 con
lecture As nothing could be seen furongs length
owing to the showers of spray and drift which filed the
sr and as the wind blew nearly into the harbor they