Washington telegraph., 1854-10-11
Terrific Eurric ane.

The coasts Of the Car9linas and Georgia We're
visited recently, by very destructive hurricane.
The city Of Savannah, and the shipping in the
harbors suffered severely. The destruction at
Charleston was also great. The Savannah Re
publican thus notices the storm.
As We go to press with our evening edition. a
terrific hurricane, exceeding in violence aud the
amount Of property destroyed anything we have
ever Witnessed. is sweeping over Savannah from
the northeast. 1t is appalling to look ont upon the
streets and listen to the rushing. roaring wind.
bearing limbs of trees. pieces OF slate. and tn and
boards upon its mighty wings. as il they were
lighter than chatE. Il commenced to blow early
Thursday forenoon. and coatin.ei 10 increase in
violence until mIdnigat. when it rose to a gale:
since which time the wind Iasevery moment be-
come more and more violent up to the time we
wEite-Fuday afternoon. We trust it has reach
Ell its height i0r we cannot see how il caa posi-
bly, become more violent without pyostratiug the
most substantial e5sfces in town, and causing
great destruction OF lie.
Tae streets are flled with prostrate trees and
branches. and the whole face of the ground is COW
cred with leaves and vegetable matter. When
the hot sun shall again PoGT down upon the now
Hooded city. the evils arising from the decomp1-
slion Of this matter viii, We fear, furnish addi-
tlonal tood to the pestilsnce now prevailing
It is impossible to leave our Office 50 terrific is
the storm without. and consequently we are un-
able 10 state what damage has been done to the
shipping IN port, to houses. churches, fences and
other structures. We fear, however. the injury
to property of all kinds has been fearful.
Unfortunately, oUr Information in regard to the
valuable rice plantations along the river is more
extensive and reliable. Looking from the upper
story OF the Republican buildings, we ind that
the whole OF Hutchinson's Island, opposite the
fss+r
and below, both on the Georgia and Carolina side
as tar as the eve can reach, are mpicteiy inun-
dated. The tide, we are told by some OF our old
est citizens was at II O'Clock from two to three
feet higher tkan it had been in thirty wears. and
1t must have risen much higher later in the day
Inc water coming down the river and the hur-
rIcaAe sweeping up, have had the effect of piling
up the water, as it Were, and IF flooding the
wharves lumber yards, rice lands and everything
else in the vicinity OF the river.
The loss from the destruction Of the rice and
sea island cotton crops IN Georgia and South Car
olIna, must be immense. Iuteed. it can onIy be
estimated By millions. With the rice fields food
ed and an angry. terrific hurricane sweeping over
them, tearing Up the eIl5autmeuts and DESTROY
,ng the work OF years, difficult 20 place limit
upon the damage done. " e fear there has also
been great loss OF lie among the negroes on these
plantations. from the overEowiug and washir-
away of houses. boats e..
The shipping or the coast must have suffered
terribly, and we have prepared ourselves for the
most disastrous accounts.
Just fltT years age yesterday. as we learn from
our back flies, the coast of Georgia was visited
BY the most iIishtu hurricane that had been
known since the settlement OF the State It IS
remarkable that the gale which now shakes the
building in which we write. and is uaToof.lg the
town prostrating trees and chimueys. and Destroy
ing vast amounts OF property, should occur Just
fifty years to q day AFTER that of 1901. We pray
that we may never witness another such exni5-
ition of the power Of the Almighty