The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-22
from the Baltimore American, September 1871
naatr,,ctirra Hurricane at Anficra

/ tive hurricane with which that island was visited
| on the Dist Of that month. The storm commenced
on the afternoon of that day. and increased in force
| untl two O'Clock the next morning. when il sensi
| bly, abaled The account then proceeds to say
Our tranquil island, previously studded with neat
structures and pOpulous villages in this brief inter
val was shrtUetle1 TO a lDaSte OF rubbish and ruins
| As the day advanced, accounts of calamity came
| IN from all directions; and it soon became evident
that the destruction both of life and property, was
worse than had been anticipated. In the Old-road
division the devastation is immense. Every cottage
In the village, as well as at Dalzell's lies PROSTATE;
and the cotagers, men, women and chldren, are
for the present quarered In the celler OF Ihe IeC-
tory and SchOOl-room. The village OF Johnsons
Point comprising some $50 or 200 dwellings, is al
most annihilated-there being but three good houses
standing. At this place three persons, man, wO-
man and child, were crushed and mserably des-
,rOyed woman escaped with fractured arm
and another otherwise injured, and who has since
died. The Moravian SchoOl-roOm has been con-
yerted into a complete hospital for the wounded.
The Parish Church of st. Mary received but
slight njury-which circumstance is attributable TO
the precautionary measures adopted by the Rector.
The Chapel of ease, also did not receive very ma
erial injury; although twO-thirds Of the windows
were burst open, and the roof over the transept
slightly perforated. The rectOry however, presents
one mass of ruins. greater part of the Rev Mr..
Curtin's furniture was broken up and dispersed
about the adjoining fields. The reverend gentle
mans private library was also nearly destroyed,
and his clothing, linen, DC, blown entirely away
such as has been since discovered having been re-
duced TO shreds The Parish records were with diff
Guilty preserved. The line of road between the
Church and Chapel presents series of rulns and the
continuation to windward across Figtree hill is said
to be nearly impossible, on account of the fallen
trees. The greater part of the windOw-shutters,
and one of the doors of St Luke's were burst open
and destroyed, and the roof very much shaken
Several braces were also sprung and the three
glass windows to the east were broken in. The
school and teachers room at Brecknocks were com
pletely ruined.
The rectory of st. Philips, with the out offices
and the teachers house, has received little damage,
but the Church is unrooed-the greater part of the
galvanized iron, the rafteTs ceiling, &c, broken to
shvers and the burialyard and rectory-yard strewn
with fragments. Pieces of rafters driven into
the ground to the depth of three or four feet; and
large section of the Church roof, together with
piece of pitch-pine scantling, 20 feet long, by s.
with numerous other missiles, were carried quite
over the rectory and lodged in the yard The new
ly erected church of All-Saints district has been
levelled to the ground and very great number of
small dwellings in the immediate vcinltyflave been
scattered into fragments and swept away st. Bar
nabas is also destroyed
The distinctions to the Moravian establishments
may be briefly summed as follows The settle
ment of Grace Hill has been severely tried, and the
dwelling house much injured f20O will scarcely
has suffered very much, being exposed to ali the
fury of the tempest from the Southeast. One end
of the dwelling-hOuse nearly taken of; the roof
very much Injured; nearly all the Out-huildngs are
destroyed and part of the roof of the School taken
off ESQ will scarcely repair the damage done.
The villages in the neighborhOod are nearly all
destroyed At this part of the island, where the
hurricane was most severe, they had an early no
tice of its approach by extraordinary swell of
the sea, which began on Monday morning about 10
O'Clock, and came in from the southeast. The
Training School lately erected on jennings estate
has been utterly DESTROYED The house of the resi-
dent missionary alone left standing-a part of the
roof with the gallery has been torn from that
fS00 sterling will scarcely repair the damage done.
The Teachers house at Lebanon has been destroy
ed, and many houses in the neighborng village are
in ruin
The injury to plantation property has been seri-
Gus in the extreme. Our brief space will only per
nit us TO mention those estates from which we have
received accounts hastily, as follows:
Thbou's works almost entirely destroyed Blub-
Der Valley managers house raZed to the earth, and
the whole of his household effects destroyed.
Blakes Mil stripped, boiling house and mill house,
with loft and stables, completely down. At Brock
nOck's the only vestiges of buildings are part Of
the great house, and tower and talltree of mills,
several head of stock killed substantial dwelling
erected since the earthquake, in the occupancy Of
John Bennett, Esq, was blown entirely TO frag-
ments and the greater portion OF the remnants scat
tered over a cane piece opposite Belvideres some
five or six hundred yards distant-furniture, DC,
scattered and destroyed. At Dunning's not build
ing has been left standing. OF George Byams, the
fragments of the dwelling is only remaining Mr..
James Aihl, the proprietor, received considerable
personal injury. The works and buildings at Green
Castle, BOdyponds, SawcOts, Russell's, together
with all the estates in that direction have received
very considerable injury. Brooke's, Cades Bay,
FfrVe's Orange Valley, Golden Grove, Bath Lodge.
Coolies and StOney Hill have also suffered. North
Sound Pantation-overseers house lifted up in the
air, and thrown upside down twenty-five yards
from its foundation; the Overseer much hurt; in
the house was infant and its mother, who es-
capped uniniured
From the English Harbor the accounts embrace
details of serious injury both to public and private
property. BOWS Hill, the country seat of His Ex-
cellency the Governor, has suffered exceedingly.
His Excelency has been the loser of large amount
of private property, and two excellent carriage
horses belonging to him were killed. In the dock
yard the officers quarters fiat; the COmmissa-
riat store is totally ruined and the Capstan house
destroyed The Soldiers Barracks are also ruined
and the Middle Ground Buildings blown into the
sea the soldiers are quartered under canvass.
The loss to II. NJ. Government in English HarbOr
is estimated at :f25.O00 The Wesleyan Chapel
and Lady Grey's School is levelled to the earth.
Mission house uninjured, but the sashes broken.
Numerous dwelling houses also completely de-
stroyed. At Monks Hill, barracks entirely demOl-
lSlleQ. ana 0dg-SIdI OOW0. CGNSJdl HOuS6S uONIl
at Falmouth. Out buildings of st. Paul's rectOry
destroyed.
From the above hastily compiled record of dis
asters in the rural districts toleraby correct idea
may be gathered of the extent of the devastation.
There are probably many estates. which we have
not mentioned, which have equally suffered and
several, it is presumed, have escaped uninJured,
but of these we have received no direct accounts.
The information we have given has been received
from the most reliable sources and the statement
mav be regarded as in the main correct. Compared
with these details, the destruction in the city Of St
John appears slight and for the greater part is con
fined to the property of the poorer classes 1t is
supposed that throughout the island there have
been two thousand buildings unroofed, and seven
hundred totally destroyed. By far the larger por-
ton of these are the cottages Of the laborng classes
The damage to the shipping appears inconsidera-
BILE attributable to the circumstances of there
having been at the time but very few vessels in the
harbor, and to the good Sc holding ground" of the
aAchorages OF the entire loss Of life there va