Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-23
DESTRUCTIVE STORM IN FLORIDA.

On Saturday last had another Of those horrible tor
nadoes which experience should now lead us to
more or less certainly with every autumnal equinox
The morning Of Saturday was cloudy but little por
tentous Of what followed The wind was east northeast
and by II o'clock fresh, but nothing more By hafpast
one IL mad veered TO the southeast and was blowing
gale and raining hard BY halpas two the destruction
commenced and IN an hour after the was at its
height-the wind south southeast 1t is impossible to
give an adequate idea Of its fury The rain drove hori
zontay in fine mist, darkening the whole horizon and
the crash Of falling roots and buildings the clatter az
immense rolls OF tin and iron from the houseops
were most melancholy and terrific Accomplishments to
the fearful roarings of the storm
In town We are torn to ribands There il SCARCELY n
| building which has not sustained some damage and
there are several cases of total wreck
The Depot buildings at the railroad terminus are all
gone-demolished The iron foundry and machine shop
ditto The frame of twostory dwelling house for
| DR.. Lewis is demolished
The Capitol is badly injured Some of the southern
gaoie Is blown in four FIVE chimneys were blown
down ana shattered the roof badly About twenty win
dows were either wholly or partially blown in The roof
OF the eastern portco started off and the building
torn and shattered generally The Senate chamber is
oaa condition the ornamental ceiling all ruined. The
force Oh the wind was such to start the Of
some OF the inside doors after blowing the windows op
pose The falling bricks have broken in the arches of
Doth the csterns at the south end The whole roof is in
q wretched condition.
The roof of Judge Bakers dwelling opposite is injured
considerable portion of the slate shattered and blown eff
considerable portions Of the pazzas of the City Hotel
and the Planters Hotel are blown away of the win
dows blown In and the frame of the addition the Plan
ters Hotel Ia very substantial piece of work hundred
feet by forty is out Of perpendicular.
The Exchange House is unrooed totally, and the three
buildings up to Lewis Ames less unroofed.
The two stores occupied by John McDougal & Co. and
John W. Argyle unroofed and of the walls blown
down; IN fact the buildings destroyed The goods
above the first floor were'al exposed to the open air.
he fhrQo hui od
rooted, and the armory itself demolished The arms
were taken out Sunday, and in part destroyed
good part of the muskets adapted only shoot
ing round the haystack fence corner Bonds ware
house is partially unroofed
Miller Brokaw's stable, large brick building with
tn roof IN size about $50 by 90 is badly wrecked The
root stripped Oft entirely leaving but the naked raers
and they IN disordered condition Both gable ends are
also blown down. and the fodder and slowed away
IN the loft was scattered the face of nature The
Sentinel Office and the building adjoining are about two
thirds unroofed.
The stores from McMun's corner occupied by Messrs
Geo. Beswck and Asa B. Clark, down to Kindons con-
dictionary, six in number, partially unroofed Kin
dons confectionery Is wreck, the whole front blown
down to the foundation
The stores from James B. CANDLES corner to c. C.
Byrds some twenty odd, are nearly all more less
rooted
D. G. Wilson's warehouse also unroofed and part
OF the walls blown down. and the roof of his store badly
shattered from the falling chimneys
There are not more than four store houses in the town
which have sound roof but probably less injury done
the stocks OF goods than night be reasonably Inferred
from this fact Although it rained good deal during
the gale, it either did not rain much after the mischief
was done the rain drove horizontally do
the damage it might otherwise have done.
Of other buildings, not mentioned above, the court
house is good deal damaged by the blowing in of win
dows and the fall of two chmneys upon the roof.
The cotton warehouse occupied by Messrs. Broome s.
Heir fat and some of the iron which composed the roof
was blown quarter of mile.
The Masonic Lodge building is n bean of runs-not n
stick standing The Methodist Church badly strained
St. Johns Church is good deal damaged Most of the
windows on the south side and in the southeast
are blown in.
The residence of Daniel H. Megnnss ESQ., badly in
jured-both gables blown down very tall chimney in
the Of the dwelling house Of Mr. j. g. Anderson was
blown upon the roof of his dining and crushed it in
The damage to kitchens, out-houses, fences, trees,
shrubbery, and all the mischief incident pretty gene
raj burst up among out-buildings may well be imagined
The whole town and its pureus is of disorder
and ruinthe streets obsructed by fallen trees fences
piles of lumber and bricks great rolls of battered n &c.
If the weather continues dry las it promises to
be so that wet goods be dried and dry
main until the roofs Of the stores be repaired the
damage in goods will not be very great In buildings
cannot say what il is There however than
six valuable buildings in the which may
be considered as totally ruined
Fortunately but one person was hurt amid all this de-
struction in town. One man. foreigner whose we
have not learned, was badly hurt by falling building
and died yesterday.
Mr. j. D. barnes OF TINS county, had a valuable ser
want killed by the falling Of house during the
Every house, Of every description his place de-
stroyed and all the houses Judge Broomes plantation
were also destroyed The damage to buildings plan
tations throughout the country is great We hear Of
numbers of gin-houses destroyed
The roads are all obstructed-few people have come in
from the country yet but those few bring melancholy
The cotton plant in this vicinity stripped of
all its leaves two three weeks ago. and the hot and dry
weather since that time had opened Of the bos that
approximating to maturity. The consequence was
that vast proportion probably at least twothrd Of the
whole CROP exposed in the fields and the leaess stalks
white with lint Meantime planters straning
every gathering and the majority of them
had their n-houses full of cotton in the seed Under
such circumstances wherever the force of this gale
been felt seems that an almost total destruction
of the crop is inevitable The exposed fields we
fdent must be bare lint if picked by hand From
the great destruction Of outhouses that hear Of in the
county believe also that large proportion Of the
picked and unpacked cotton is gone, and shall be
agreeably disappointed good deal Of the provision
crop has been destroyed At the very best 1t cannot
be doubted that half the cotton crop in this vicinity is lost
We hear that the warehouses at the St Marks terminus
are standing. The shipping in port has Jared badly.
The Lighthouse is badly damaged though not destroy
ed The breakwater is in good part gone The iron door
is carried away and the building strained contents
will need immediate attention. The keepers house is
nearly destroyed and all the furniture clothing bedding
provisions, &C. lost.
At Newport glad to learn, very little damage
done None Of the goods injured as the
water not high. The Courthouse and one other
building we're blown down
The Western Texan" Of the latest date gives
count of fight between party Of Indians and scout