The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-09-22
More Of the Great storm.


men;s from the "Nvw Orleans Picayune.''
More Of the Great Storm.
The light b use on the Cbandeleur Islands
was destroyed in the gale Of Thursday last -
We are indebted for an account of the loss TO the
keeper, M. Alexander Lea, and to minute ct
facts By fke party which rescued him and b $
family from their distressing pnsiton .cr three
days of exposure and suffering
The storm ragged there heavily on Wednesday
and the north wind Piled up the waters round
the light house, until on Thursday morning In.
foundation was washed away and The building
cell. The keeper aud his family wee at the
time lab vi In 4. ~ attempting to escape from
| the wreck If the dwelling house, which had
been forced from the piles on " hich it had rest
ed Mr.. Lea had extended rape ~ thu gallery
If Abe lighi-h.uss, upon which t. transport his
family to i, as place Of refuge, VIII, the mhos
structure fell t. the foundation.
They were then left to struggle, nearly waist
deep in the water, which washed into the win
dows Of the dwelling, uatiI they CONSTRUCT a
raft from part Of the gallery ro"f, on which
they were enabled to reach saad hill three
quarters Of mile distant, the only visible
2nint above the waters. They renamed in that
forlorn condition until th- subsistence Of ,h-
flnd permitted them to reurn to the house,
which they found perfect wreck. Oui-houses,
fences and improvements Of every kind had
been swept clear away. Provisions, furniture,
clothing, tools, in tact everything movable was
destroyed and only barren frame left witt
which To shelter then FROM the weather. They
| subsisted three days on the scraps they were
enabled % find, and were on the verge Of starva
ton when the d.g Of distress they KEEP, flying
was seen by pleasure party from Biloxi in the
| schooner Ses-Horse, Capt. Powell, which was
cruising on Saturday nf the north end of the
island. They Immediately landed, found the
light house lev-led to the ground and the
keeper and his family in this distressed cond.-
tom. They relieved their immediate wants and
brought them up to this city
There are some curious facts already known
| which il is beyond our meteorological knowl
edge 10 account FIR. The storm was hardly Eel
| in Lake Puntchar,rain, and though high a. III,
| Bay Of ST. Louis and Pass Christian, did no
compare in violence with that which ragged a few
miles further east, and was so frightful in an,
about Mobile bay. Yet along The coast aud a
the watering places the gale blew off shore. A
Mississippi City and Biloxi the water was driver
out of the harbnr. Boats were left high AM
dry, and the bntt"ms were exposed further on
than had been ever known before Blu, a
Pascagoula, . few miles from there, on the sam
coast. fronting also sonhwardly. the sane stnE
drove in the water - ~ to carry off every whar
and bath house, and to wash away the banks an
| undermine the road.
In Mobile hay, which 10 at the northern ex
/ tremiiy Of bay, thirty miles from the Cult, tn
same storm appears TO have heaped up the wa
tiers within the bay, instead Of blowing then
out, and thus caused the inundation Of the CITY
These are facts well worthy Of minute invests
CATION in order to trace the cause of such sing
ular and opposite results within an area 50 Gil
cumscribed; and it is extremely desirable tina
parties on the spot at the time should endeavn
IN rrcollect and note down the duration IF tn
wind, its farce and changes, as accurately a
possible. They will be very useful facts, an
may help to SUI ply satisfactory explanation
the causes of these phenomena, and to detel
mine important laws Of meteorology.