New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-10

ida on the 5th. The Spey packet, which TOOK the
accounts of these hurricanes TO England, nad peen
anchored in Carlish Bay, Barbados during Inc pn
ricane of the 10Th of July. She sailed on the oVth
for St. Thomas and was very nearly salllng hto the
second hurricane. In the hurricane OF the middle
of August in the same yeafb t met C NIX
most remarkable adventure. Az one ti'He shi seul J
going down head foremost. The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
were cut fore and aft at this crlcal ocs, one
the mizzen MAN. and foremasts we're swept away ole
after the other; but the ship rghted, anu, althouS
the masts were gone, the boats gone, Ihe lnilli
matches stove in, the pumps broken anu tle o $50
breaino over the vessel as il would have done over
log it was brought into wilmington ny tlI II 49, 49,,
In the same year occurred what Is calico me haceI
storm Of Jamaica Inc hist aSco1mI W 9s and ~
places it at Kingston, Jamaica, September 70 anu -,
and H. ~ S. Racer took the gale hear the uIdhu
Caynen on the 18th. After this It increased 70 iuIl
hurricane and swept into the Gulf OF Mexico pasSlng
near Cuba Ii reached Sisal on the LIST OF OctoDeT'
swept around to MatamOros on the 20, reaching pal
weston and New Orleans on the ON ana ensaco I
the 9Th From the latter place it swept along the
coast of the Carolinas and into the CHESAPEAKE anu
it even touched at New-YOrk great storm Deg .n
in Alabama in 1884, where it did much damage on te
Goth and 3lst of August and on the LIST OF Septepe
reached the coast. nearly destroying the towns oI
Apalachicola and st. Marks in Florida. T.
The usual course OF the hurricanes II 10 oegi ~ -.
the neighbOrhood of Barbados or ST. Thomas ana 10
proceed to the w. n. W., sometimes reaching, inc
coast of the United States. One III 1874, called by
Mr. Redfeld the Cuba hurricane" c0mmenceu Va
the coast of Honduras, and passed across Ooa ilu
through the Atlantic beyond Newfoundland lnSy
generally occur in the latter part OF August OF carry
in September though often much later. ne IuloI
hurricane of the present year, 1T may DE opsef
was as late as Oct. 49, Earthquakes, TOO are OIL lr
ouent occurrence in the West Indies ana whem as III
the case of that reported at the islands OF ot
aud St. Crox the other day. one OF these IoiioM ,
unon furious hurricane the condition OF the poor
ISLANDERS is deplorable beyond expression or coms
Grafton Sir Charles Lyel is of the opinion Inat
MANY Of these hurricanes have been connected VIII
submarine earthquakes but Reid THINKS they sIouu
NOT be connected without satifactery PROOF OIL tne
fact 1t is said in of the reports OF the recent
earthouake in which the United States war steneIs
DE Soto and MOnongahela were lost. thaC at ct'
Thomas the sea rose 90 feet the city ana every
thing was submerged. But even where hurricanes
have occurred without being accompanied Dy earLh-
ouakes similar consequences have been KNOWN Inc
town of Savannah IL Mar in Jamaica was over
whemed by the sea in hurricane on the % OIL Oc-
tober 1880 and number of vessels lost, wnlle amOre
violent hurricane on the 18th OF the same month was
not nearly so disastrous. 80. 40, - e
st. Thomas was only partially within the range Of
the hurricane Of 1853 1t was first observed ABOUT
October 90 at the Windward Islands, and passed over
Porto Rico, Hayt and along the bahamas. Ghahg,
ing its course il swept Bermuda on the ATTN ana
then rolled onward almost 10 the shores OF the Ou
world even grazing New York as 1t passed, such was
its violence and extraordinary diameter after Teach-
ing Bermuda The hurricane of 1861 is scarcely Pc
hind any of the Others in violence or the loss OF lie
and property, and the reported snbmerglng OF the
Island of TOrtOa only needed continuation TO make
it the most terrible in the history of the West indies
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