Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-07-25
A Fnrious Storm.

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The lnei,irer of Saturday says, the storm Of
Thursday afternoon and night and Friday morn
ing, was truly furious in and around Philadelphia
The rain descended in torrents at times, and the
wind blew hurricane the greater part uf the night
Our public squares yesterday morning, presented
a frightful appearance. Many Of the smaller trees
were evelled to the earth, while immense branch
stripped from the larger, were s,rewn in all d.
reciions. Almost every private garden also suf-
fered severely. We have similar accounts from
the country aroundaboui. In many cases, inn
mense trees were torn up by the roots and dashed
TO the earth; chimnies were blown down. barns
were unroofed and fences were prostrated. In
the Burnt District Philadelphia there were crash
es of falling walls al intervals, during The whole
night. The Robert Morris steamer, when within
twenty miles OF Cape May, was compelled to put
hack, and sought harbor at Wilmington. The
Kennebec, with over fourhundred passengers, at
8 p NJ. anchored of Listens" and put into Del
aware City in the morning all safe: The gale on
the Delaware was truly frightful.
The wharves along the Delaware and Schuyl-
kill rivers have been oyerfowed and the shipping
has suffered considerably great many small
craft have been either sunk. filled with water,
broken to peices, or driven from their moorings.
Some of the brick yards in the suburbs of The city
have been greately damaged and the telegraph
wires on some Of the lines are on the ground
The steamboat and railroad lines have nearly all
been disarranged, the Delaware has risen in heig,h,
and there is furious freshel, threatening no lit
tie destruction to property, in the Schuykll
A high store al 205 Market street, recently
burnt was blown down, and in its fall crushed the
adjoining bookstore of J. B. Smith. Over eighty
persons are usually al work in that store, and if
the catastrophe had happened in the daytime many
lives must have been destroy ed. Many roofs and
chimnies were blown down A collier sunk op-
posite Bristol and Schooner little below
-Four men were drowned in a canal boa, on The
Schuylkill, and numbers of canal boats foaied
down the torrent, some with persons aboard.-
Lumber, saw-logs, rails, &c went down in abun-
dance. The water had not been so high for eley-
en- years.
Four men were drowned al Phonixvie, four at
Conshehocken, and several persons al other points
along the stream.
Bridges were washed away from streams emn-
tying into the Schuylkil.
L he water rose several feet above the Norris
town Railroad, that the cars had TO stop.
AT Reading, Poitsyille, and other places on The
Schuylki, great damage was done. Many bridg-
es over small streams were swept away, and one
across the Schuykll at Schuylkill Haven was des-
,royed. The people along the wafer in Reading
had 10 more out Of their houses. A canal lock
near Phoenixville broke and did much damage
The Schuylkill was never known higher
The storm through New Jersey and New York
was characterized by severity equal to what was
experienced in Philadelphia. Particulars given
are chiefly rumors, as the extent of damage had
not been asceriained.
Along the coast south as far Wilmington. N. C.
the gale was severe.
Ii is supposed much damage was done to the
shipping off the coast, but we have no, yet found
particulars in the papers,