The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-09-26
THE EQUINOCTIAL STORM.

Our exchanges from every part of the country
are filled with accounts of damage by the recent
storms. In South Carolina it was particularly Sc
A letter to the Columbia Soah Caroiinian
says that con some of the plantations near Ben
nettsville, over in Marlboro there is not a single
house standing, the wind blowing down everything
and killing several persons, both white and black
! understand it carried a negro woman two or three
hundred yards out into the field, killing her dead
In the vicinity of Cheraw; it blew down some few
trees; otherwise did little harm"
In Sumter District writer states that all the
buildings the plantation of Col. Rembert, were
blown down including a handsome family residence
The town of Proctorville on Lake Borgne, Lou-
siana, was inundated on Thursday week and family
drowned
The Hanover (Pa.) Spectator, of Tuesday, saws
The inhabitants OF this Borough do not remember
to have witnessed for many years so heavy rain
storm as that by which were visited on Friday
and Saturday of last week The fall of rain was
accompanied by wind which rose to almost hur-
ricane at times. and created considerable apprehen-
sion to its effects. The streams in the vicinity
swollen to fearful height, and their passage
was rendered perilous in the extreme. We are in
formed that the waters have not risen to great
height for sixty years. There was considerable
damage done by the food along the course of the
Big Conewago creek. Mill dams and fences were
swept away and thousands of rails were lodged
along the banks of the stream. The Carlisle mail
carrier found it impossible to the creek, and
compelled in consequence to return to Hanover
and await a subsistence OF the waters. We learn
that mill between Berlin and YOrk was carried
away and otherwise incalculabe done in that
vicinity, especially to the roads and bridges On
the Hanover Branch Railroad, two bridges near
the Junction were very badly injured, one of them
nearly destroyed In consequence of their damaged
state it was considered dangerous to attempt to
cross them with the trains, and it was not DONE
The evening train did not reach town until late
hour on Saturday night. The bridges have since
been made passable and the arrive at the usual
time. Several places on the Gettysburg Railroad
rnh hollx ebalt hot hal nod
it hazardous to proceed on Saturday night and the
train laid over at our Station until next morning
despatch from Mauch Chunk, Pa, dated the
odd states that the Lehigh River had risen feet
and the whole town was under water. Almost all
the cellars were full of water, and the residents
were constructing Golfer dams to protect their
houses. The inhabitants had been at work NIGHT
and day to provide for the safety of their property
1t was impossible to estimate the amount of damage
done. To move about the town it was necessary To
do so in boats or take to the hills.
despatch from Easton of the same date saws
The Lehigh and Delaware Rivers are both RISING
rapidly.
serious break in the Delaware Canal at Yard
eyville, is reported-forty feet of the embankment
heing washed away.
The Wilmington, (N C.) Herald has letter
from Rockingham, in that State, who writes the
particulars OF dreadful hurricane which swept
over Richmond county and the upper part of Marl-
boro district s. c., on the 10th inst The destruc-
ton of dwellings, crops, &C., appears to have been
terrible, and it is feared or two lives have
been lost. So far heard from, twenty houses are
reported as completely blown down; whlle tne ne
number unroofed and otherwise damaged, is aiuoS1
| unaccountable. A kitchen in Marlboro IN Whlch
were four negroes, was blown away, without nurt-
ing the negroes. The corn blown out OF the helds
into the swamps, is represented as oelhg many
thousand bushels. Pine trees, two ana three feet
in diameter were taken up by the roots and carried
two and three hundred yards LightwOod stumps
in the open fields were torE up and blown away.