The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-09-17
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from foot OF Government street into the MD
die of the stream, where she was anchored.
On this wharf were q bales of cotton. and q
variety of other goods for which the captain
had signed bills Of lading, and was taking on
board. In the heaviest of the blow the wharf
swung off and flOated down to Pinto Is Island.
The arrival of the Junior about noon, re-
heved the minds Of many respecting their
relatives and friends on the eastern shore, and
Point Clear in particular. The water rose
only Just to the piazza floor Of the hotel at the
highest nor did any of the houses round about
suffer any serious injury. But the wharVes
| all along the coast are carried away, OF very
| nearly so.
A sad tragedy occurred at Choctaw Point.
| When the storm began, the family of Mr., Fill
| libert were at the lighthouse, Or rather in The
| dwelling attached to it, and Mr.. COlgin whose
wife and children formed part of the family
circle, fastened to the rescue. Forming raft,
he first placed the young ones on it, but it
broke away, and infinite labor was required
to recover it and its precious load Finding
it impossible to take all at once, he left the
children in the house. and took his wife to
Shores but, before he could return, the wind
blew off the roof of the house, in the upper
roem Of which the family were vainly seeking
safety, and then the whole building was dash
ed to pieces. In this frightful disaster per-
ished the mother of Mrs. Fillibert, her two
grandchildren and negro boy.
In the Mobile Advertiser OF the 29th, we
| find the following: ." .
We learn by the Captain of fishing smack,
| who came up to the city last evening, that five
smaCks, with their crews, were lost between
Dog River and Dauphin Island, during the
| late gale. The number of lives lost with them
| is supposed to be from fifteen to twenty The
| yacht Kate, which arrived here last evening,
| reports that the Oregon on her last trip from
New Orleans hither, left family Of six per-
sons ION Tuesday night) on the wharf at Pas
cagoula. They were passengers from New
| Orleans to that place. Mr.. Dodson, the hotel
keeper, sent down porter, with a baggage
car, to assist them to the house, the Oregon
having already moved off. Shortly after, and
before they had time to leave it, the wharf
| was swept away, and all Of them were drowned.
i'll Two men, upset in flat. boat remained
e sixteen hours in the water, clingmg to the
wreck.
The gardeners who have long cultivated
patches in the marshes opposite the city, have
been rendered utterly destitute by the loss of
4 every thing belonging to them. One poor
man, when the water rose upon him, placed
: his wife and, it is said, five children in his
+ boat, which broke adrift and capsized before
It he could get to it. BY some strange crcum-
-, stance, he lived to recover the boat aud find in
it the inanimate forms Of three children and
Il their mother.
=, Some three miles or more Of the railroad
was submerged, but we are gratified to learn
- that it sustained but little damage.
h The damages have been estimated at mil
! lion and half; probably, however, they will
not prove to be SO much
! After the storm was over, public meeting
- was held, and committees appointed to see to
the cleansing Of the city, &c.
n The FLOOD AT AUGUSTA GA.-ln our paper
q Of Sunday morning, we announced that when
y y it went to press, the flood was within three
y feet six inches of the great freshet of May,
- lS40-that the upper bridge had been car
. ried away, and that the lower bridge was in
q a precarious situation. The water continued
to rise all night, and until about 10 clock
: on Sunday morning, at which time it reached
its highest point remaining SO for two or
! three hours, after which it commenced falling.
II has continued gradually falling up to the
time our paper went to press last evening"
The extreme height to which it attained, va
ried in different sections Of the city, when
compared with the freshet of $40.
The lower bridge remained firm till 8
{ O'Clock Sunday morning, when two boats
which were tied out in the stream, parted
their cables, and together with quantity of
I drift wood, came down with resistlGss force
u Il against the bridge on the Georgia side and
carried away about two hundred feet of that
powerful structure.
The water covered the entire city, with the
. exception of few favored spots, and filled
i nearly call the cellars with water. The dam
/ age to goods, though considerable, we believe
8 has not been very great, as there was ample
notice to remove them to places of safety
6 What damage will be done to the buildings,
y by unsettliRg foundations, remains to be seen
: The upper part of the city, and along the line
y Of the waste-way OF the canal is very much
!. torn and disfigured, The current swept with
II tremendous and awe-inspiring power in that
= direction, taking the line Of the old Beaver
y \ Dam, bearing upon its bosom houses, bridges,
- fences, and property Of various kinds and
y forming an impossible barrier between the
Flour Mills and Factories and the great body
!! of the city. From nearly all the onc-story
u houses in that part Of the city west Of Mar
% bury street, and north of the Factories the in
N habitants were driven by the surging flood,
III and those in larger dwellings were com pelled
to seek refuge in the second stories.
n It is impossible to estimate, in dollars and
I'll cents the amount Of destruction to property,
IS; public and private. The loss to the city, In
ed the items of the Bridges over the river, and
Ill over the canal-of cuVeTts and causeways, and
at the deep burrows of the Streets and the burst
ing up of the hydrant logs, will have to be
ne reclaimed almost by hundreds of thousands
nj to which the necessary relief to the houseless
ID and destitute, and the sanitory precautions
rel which must be taken, and other incidental ex-
he penses not easily enumerated, must be added.
t. The loss and deterioration OF private property
le in destruction and injury to houses, fences and
l. gardens-and the destruction and damage Of
d goods and merchandise, will be, in the aggre-
lrI gate, very considerable. The suffering among
d the poor must be very great--sueh as to appeal
|. strongly to public and private benevOence.
: We are happy to say there has been no loss Of
life.
!, Hamburg, in proportion, suffered vastly
L more than Augusta. No part of that city was
: uncovered, and in some parts the water reach
Il ed to the second story Of the houses. There
was much injury to goods and other property.
1t 1t was stated to us BY resident that the wa
Il ter in that city was all Of six inches higher
d than in 1910.
h A young Irishman, named DosseteT was
10 wading in front Of a store, when he fell into
hole, and being unable TO swim, was quickly
n draVned ya tHta ~