The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1852-09-11
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alarm with which that city WAS f'ee""E
visited. We subloin an article ron '""'
paper Of the 21'h.
:. Tho storm which we mentioned N our
las, continued to rage Yesterday unt'i aoo",
noon. when il began to subslde. Inc VIM
,lowed all nigh, aud Yesterday morning
fro,, the southeast, About md day 1t
shifted father south then TO the west
and. finally, Sc. in from The NORTH or
poin, IN that direction.
The hood began TO decrease at noon
and towards night i, fel! back as tai as
Front street. leaving deposit OF nud' ana
hazards and wood, and the debris oil n''o"'
aver, where IN the lower streets.
"ni. impossible to give, a, the prese'
time any accurate idea OF the extent OF
thi. great flood, OF the damage winch
produced. .,
"oo :, Francis street, in the north par
Of the city. the waters came up 10 the ONCE
Of 81 John. Powers, y Co., where we 81"
a large barge moored. Farther up, II reaoh'
ed ST Joseph street to depth sufficient to
noat \ boat The railroad depot was com
pIe,ely surrounded by water, and the r",I'
road Ior distance of two miles, the onIS
mart examined. was covered to depth OF
one or two feet
"On Dauphin street the water came up
AS far as this printing office 'n oh''
street il reached about the same helgh'h'
On Goyernmeut street, near the lower part
of the Narket.houe. y small steamboat
4 L., u a.
the city the flood WAS still greater At
snanlsh Alley the houses almost l'oated,
and men were called thithcr to rescue 'he
inmates FROM drowning.
Along the whole length ct Front, Com
merce. and " alter street. the water lay To
a prent depth-iu the first street ten or
twelve feet in places The lower floors of
,he storebouses were all covered to u con-
siderable depth
"'rhe walls of the new store, in course
Of erection bv Ncssrs Douauce n Sons,
partly fell in. and. we imagine, the iounda
tons Of nearly all the new buildings In that
quarter are very much impaired
"Innumorahlc quantities OF trees were
blown down, the China trees particularly
were forced up from their roots, aud some
Of the roads were made impossible by them.
,ll along the bay this is the case. The
fences in every direction also suffered
greatly.
"In the city tire awnings and the awning
posts were generally DESTROYED. Those
4. iron las,cnincs. which have lately come
into fashion, suffered considerably, some
of them were ben, MP. as il made OF wire.
Nearly every TN root within the cnN was
ripped oil Some OF them were rolled mp
like scrolls, and cast INTO the streets,
among these Is the roof oi the Govern.
ment street Church, and the roof OF i'alt 5
Restaurant on Cont street His d'uiug
room was flooded
"ln the western par. Of the city al the
low places were turned into Lakes For
quarter OF a mile on the lower par, of the
: Shell Road and the road below it, leading
to pauphin street. the water WAS two OF
three feet deep.
The scairpding Of the Battle House
was blown down, and the rooms ot the
building fronting south and east, were con
.idefah,y wcttcd but without any apparent
damage.
: he osses IN the stores ON the east o.
D the city ,rust he imrlruse. Very few sup
posed that there wa- danger or took pre-.
cautions against. and the consequence IS 9
vast destruction of all per-habIe articles in
groceries. hard ware clothing, DC. The
loss i. estimated at from = hall 20 a million
OF dollars
The most ~fcly aprrchensions Of dan.
ger were felt all day for the safety Of Point
Clear Lying on a low plain, night in the
track Of the incoming flood, it rs feared
that if the house its,l has not been carried
away, at least immense suffering has been
occasoned 10 its numerous inmates.
"Of what damage has been sustained by
the shipping no estimate can now he made
but it is known that boats were sunk, aud,
1t is feared, several lives lost Several steam.
bos's, too, sustained considerable damage
but as yet wa can got 40 particulars Of it.
Taking 1t altogether, tai, has been ;hc
highest aud most disastrous hood ever
known TO Mobile and doubtless The desiruc.
ton here is not greater than that on the
coast. Or the lower part of the eastern
shore the land lies low. and we fear
there has been much distress and loss among
the residents.
"W have learned farther that the steam
, boats Swan and Ambassador were carried
into the woods raar Dog River aud it i,
said, are lost, There was no insurance on
the former TIE steamboat Belle Gates
lying in the figh Nile Creek, was sunk to
her hurricane deck. The furniture has
been saved.
We copied from a Savannah paper yes.
terday Geographic despatch announcing
that the Executive Committee OF the Union
party in Georgia had withdrawn their cleo
tnral ticket We find, on looking over thu
Macon aud Augusta papers, that the step