New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-31
INCIDENTS OF TIE STORM.
from he LOui,rils Courier.

from he LOEisriUS Courier.
great many minor incidents marked the progress Of
the storm Roofs of small buildings lifted from the
walls and dropped on other buildings already supplied
The piles Of lumber in the yard If Mr. John Graham
we've seated Magazine and Eghthss., assortment was
mixed quite heterogsnously IL was the work of mio
ute the storm, but it will take some time 70 straighten
mp matters again IN the yard.
THE extreme western limit of the ravages Of this storm
was at the locality Of the German Protestant Orphan Asy
lum and the eastern was at the store OF the brothers
Semple the cofner of Sixth and Main. Parallel lines
drawn from these points would nclose space
hundred feet in width but the storm obeyed
that law of eteor,ogy which guides these accelerated
currents in north north heHswardly direction the whole
width was not swept by the STORM
The large hemp factory belonging TO W A. Richardson,
ESQ stripped Of its entire roof and of tho
most substantial in the city The factory stshds on
Twelfth ST. Chestnut The tmbers In the roof were
forty feet in length and very heavy and substlnta
The entire lifted by the storm. carried about
hundred and fifty yards and deposited bottom up ward in
a peach orchard. Incning forth eastwardly from that
point t\ storm struck the Is Of the building OF MIR.
Lily f\e large suburban dwelling, the west side Of
Tenthst Aetween Chestnutst and Broadway The roofs
of the Is Mere destroyed, and the walls much injured.
Tie groundsSere strewcd with eayes Of the trees.
II is in the power Of pen or language TO describe the
varied scenes and incidents of yesterday. Mothers in
fontc ngODy seeking heir children wives their husbands
children their parents they wandered through the
s.mblcd crowd filling the air with Their cries OF mourning,
c-usI all to drop the sympathetic tear aud desire TO
invoke the same Power TO a.e the fallen structures.
and the desr sought But alas each peoing
shrek reveals the fact that some new dead form has been
frieuds who take him from his bed Of death next, the
mother then the daughter and two sors-ai crusbef-
inuiilaed-deadl Truly tiis j. house OF mourning.
Next faxebbaired girl, scarce four years Of
sge borne in the OF a sturdy streaming with
perspiraon, begrmmed with dirt, who had discovered
Der under huge pile OF tmbers which falling
beam protected her little form from de tth. As
brought forth before the people che looked about with
face full of wonder which heightened by the shouts Of
gratitude that went mp from the assembled multitude in
paise her noble deiverer, ard thanksgiving that
ather and mothers heart not made desoate by tho un
timely death of their little one.
We noticed young wife hurying with distracted steps
through the crowd. rendsg the air with her agonzin9
shreks seeking her husban who she thought buried
in the ruins The husband also seeking his wife,
Hearing her cries. he made his way TO her side and with
shri cry Of Joy she rushed into his arms ercaimng
in thanksgiving to God that lie restored them to each
Others Pages would not serve to give all the Incl
dents Of this melancholy scene with so few enlvening
features relieve its terors and can only supplcate
that Almighty Power which directs all II vsitat in
uneTlg wisdom TO support and comfort the bereayed IN
their great sfiliciion.
Mr. Brow ming prominent and active me nber Of the
church, who was in attendance with his two daughters
etcsIed with a broken leg. His daughters were but
slightly bruised.
Dr. Robinson who was in his buggy riding into the
cty of Il lower end Of Makct-st at the time Of the
sto m, narrowly escaped death from falling tree The
tree as il fell the with tremendous crash
Just eIazod the curtain at the back of the buggy HIS
horse was frightened that stopped as paraized
and made DO effort 20 avoid the danger.
We heard that q small child in the lower part OF the
city caught in the storm and blown away but ~he
ther il subsequently found not did not learn
(, Lie the wOrshpers at the Cathedral on Fhthst
wee at their devotons the edge OF d storm swept by
the front door and mas aisle and the ople were blown
nhout and actually forced from their feet in the utmost
confusion
The building Of the Wslnu;t. Baptist Church de-
cidedly shaken and some fifteen minutes aerward
raj panes OF glass in Of the north windows cracked
evidently caused BY the s,tling Of the walls