Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-25
CENTRAL AMERICA.

Terrific Gale on the Mosquito COast-The
Town of BIuefield Swept Away by the
TOrnadO-Many Plantations in Nicara.
qua and Belize DestrOyed-LOss of an
American Family Formerly of BaIti-
more. etc.
From the Greytown correspondent of the Herald
dated the 5th instant learn than on the night Of
the 18th of October the Mosquito coast was visited
by a tremendous tornado reaching from Monkey
Point to above Buefeld. A heavy norther set in
from about Bluefeld, commencing at about three
o'clock the afternoon of the 18th, increasing to
perfect gale at midnight or thereabouts, when the
wind suddenly changed to the southwest and then a
perfect tornado set in The entire town of Bluefeld
was swept away, with the exception of portion OF
the Mosquito Kings house and the Moravian Mis-
sion. These buildings finely constructed, the
latter nearly new.
All the other buildings Of the place were blown
down. Men, women and children were killed-how
many is not yet accurately known. All the merchan
disc provisions &c have been either carried bodily
away by the tempest destroyed in the debris of the
common ruin. Houses were raised bodily from their
foundations carried for hundred yards and then
crushed down, mass of broken timbers. Boats
reached Greytown the morning of the Dist, bring
ing intelligence of the sad disaster and begging help
for the surviving inhabitants, who were thus in
moment rendered houseess and destitute of the
necessities of subsistence. fund was Immediately
raised and provisions &c despatched to the relief of
the famishing and almost naked sufferers.
All the plantations the coast so far as heard
P" Pon haYS @ DeSe N b d
OF ruin and desoaon, where lately existed fine cul-
tivated plantations.
boat arriving from Pearl Cay brought the intel
hgence that an American living there, Thompson by
name, known to have been at home with his
wife and four children, and his wOr kmen, thirteen
souls in all, on the night of the 18th. and the
following morning his dwelling and out-buildings
and his entire plantation Cocoa nuts had disap-
six feet of water still breaking it. Capt. Thomp
was formerly engaged in the coastng trade here
abouts but had been for the last few years engaged
in laying ont and cultvating nut plantation
which was just commencing to pield him profitable
remuneration and in year or two would have given
him competence, if not absolute wealth. He is said
to have mother and brother residing in Baltimore
Md Captain Thompson possessed considerable pro-
pery at Pearl Cay. and leaves no one there to care
for it..
ance, Captain Samuel A. Cobb. master. Barrett &
Hosper, owners, from Boston TO Old Providence was
taken mp bodily by the hurricane. carried some two
hundred yards inland and derosited high and dry
upon the shore. The tornado reached as far inland
as Lake Nicaragua where. on the northern tor Chon
taes) Shore great damage was DONE and on the lake
itself several bangoes, with their entire crews were
lost.
On account of the incessant rains day and night for
nine weeks, at Belize the crops Of cotton rice yams
corn. peanuts, etc, entirely ruined. Besides this
the banks of the rivers have all been overown and
great numbers of cattle, hogs, goats. sheep and
poultry have been drowned swept away by the
floods. Many of the poor have lost their all while
Others blessed in this worlds goods left in
want and distress.
The Herold's Belize correspondent says
The ending of your has finished our turpentine
works, and our mills for pitch and lumber are
now closed or about to be closed. LOgwood is down
in price both in Europe and America Mahogany
our sole Ieancehas m 81 been OF late
tance from the water where it is now to be found and
now is only carried on by two firms in this colony
The demand for sarsaparlla is very limited, and the
prices have fallen from twentyeight to twelve cents
per pound.