, 1866-10-26

have been fatal in it's effects had it struck
them-in this agonising struggle to save
wife and children and, as we have said,
only 100 yards from the new house where
he had placed his youngest children, did
he see that very house, freighted with its
humanity, go over the wall without
touching a stone and apparently dash to
pieces. Nor could he make the slightest
exertion to look after those children his
was a death struggle 10 retain in their
were, as he supposed, only left to him.
Among the deaths, however, occasioned
by the fall of that house, Mr.. Arthur's
children are not to be reckoned. They
were subsequently found apart in different
houses, under the care Of friends who
had gathered them up from the debris Of
the shattered dwelling, much bruised but
otherwise safe. 1t would take up too
iuigh time to mention numerous similar
escapes: for instance, under the lee of the
wall over which Adams house was carried
without touching it, were numbers of
persons c%rouching from the storm. Had
the house gone against the wall, those
perS9ts could not have escaped as they
have done, with severe bruises only.
We have lost the Armory, the Market,
the three School houses, the Jail, (thc
prisoners being at large,) the Poor's
House, the Government house at Water
loo, with small exception, Just sufficient
TO afford shelter to President NOR and
family, the residence and out dwellings
at the Light House station and the Qua
rantine House-alI government property.
The Government building in which are
the Colonial Secretary's Office, Customs,
Council Chamber, Bank, SC, is, we be-
lieve, the only public building left but
very considerably damaged. The three
places of public worship are also injured.
Almost all the salt exposed here and at
Salt Cay has been swept away. For
t%unately for the Colony, we have yet
several hundred thousand bushels which
were mostly in houses. These houses
have been more or less destroyed, but the
salt, or a large portion that was in them,
remains. Salt Cay, we have reason to
believe, is a scene Of ruin equal to ours
here. At the latter place five vessels are
on the land in front of the town, viz =
The Am. Schr. Sally J. Aiking, of Will
mington, Del, w. G. Mundy, master
Am. Brigt. Il. G. CatteU, of Philadelphia,
G.. J. HaIpy, master; the British Brigt.
Sarah Hagg, of St. Christopher, c. H.
Matthews, master the British Brigt. Ro-
seHa, of Halifax,-Morine, master; the
British Barque NJ. Il. LeVis, of Yarmouth,
N. S., Lewis, master. The Rosetta left
East Harbor on Saturday with a load of
salt and was out the passage but was
driven back by the fury of the storm.
The British Sctr. Elizabeth, was driven
from the Riding Place at this Cay and
destroyed on the East side of Salt Cay
one man only saved from a crew of seven.
Mr.. Poloney the owner was fortunately
on shore. The British Schr. Henry, be.
longing to Yarmouth, N. S., was driven
from our Roadstead and is stranded on
the Southern Greek at Salt Cay, the
Captain, J. B. Arnold, only saved, much
bruised. The sloop AmeIia driven from
the Riding place with six men belonging
to these Islands, is probably lost with all
or board. The Brig Houard of Windsor,
N. S., Saulnier, master, a large vessel,
was driven from the Riding place and has
20 since been seen. The sioops Eliza
beth and Dread-not, at the Riding place,