The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-20
Ght@ote&ttp:
R.m.rn.bl. H.r-,e... .. naples.


The Naples correspondent of the London
Times, writing on the sixteenth ultimo-
gives the following details Of the great hurri,
cane that occurred there on the l4th and
18th.
Zone of the grandest and most affecting
spectacies have ever seen Witnessed yes
terday. A storm -nay, : hurricane ragged
from the southeast, such ~ no one renaen-
bers to have seen in Naples. Few slept on
the night of the 14th and 18th, for windows
we're staining and smashing IN oil directions |;
the sea, increasing IN power, came on like .
'ltpo di mare, to use an expfesssve Neapol-
titan phrase; while the wind hurled itself
against our houses like some heavy material
body After . sleepless night, on looking
out yesterday morning over Vesuvius the
whole atmosphere seemed TO be lit up by .
lurid light 1.-THE effect was remarkable, and
struck every one); while the sea which was
colored by its reflection, threatened to sweep
from within the bfeakwater of Santa Luz
cha few boats and coasters which lay there
in their usual imaginary security. Towards
midday, on hearing that the storm bad com
mitted great ravages, ! went down to their port
aud witnessed scene which 10 not easy to
forget. The appearance of the streets re-.
minded one Of old times. There
were barbados of boats to prevent the APP
proAch of the people to the Immacolatella, for
half Naples was there; and at the end Of ev.
ery street was drawn across . body of armed
men, either National Guards or cArbiniefs,
or guards of public security. The Project,
Quastor and all the military authorities were
there, looking helplessly enough on the raw
ages Of the storm, but making everyseffort to
maintain order and to guard the property Of
the shipwreeked.
sin every direction the ground vas
strewed with oranges, carubio, or sumach,
or whatever the cargoes of the ill-fated YES
sells might have been; and the entrance to
the 1mmacolatella one obtained a complete
view Of the disaster, though it was impossible
by the eye to calculate its full event. From
this point to the quaint church where Masan-
iello was murdered. the sea was covered with
wreck, masts and timbers, and portions of the
cargoes. Several large brigantinee were ly-
ing high and dry, not far from the fish mark et
their sides and bottoms broken in. A large
Greek vessel, laden with grain was abandohed
and hurrying towards the breakwater The
Captain and his wife had been drowned in
their attempt TO escape, and four of the crew
had been rescued and brought to life. An
other Greek vessel. also laden with graft,
rolled not tar from her. two Dutch vessels,
laden with sugar, were in imminent danger Of
distinctions close at hand were several yes
sells which had cone down, and another, a
brgantine, was sinking, as the sea WAS al
ready washing over her docks; Of smaller
craft say nothing, but the surface ofthe sea,
as far as could look, was strewed with frag,
ments of shipwrecked vessels.
at is of course, impossible to ascertain the
amount of damage inflicted by the storm, bu,
1t is roughly estimated at from q nnn no"
@iSSY,eVV u
10000 of livres. AS ! write the wind has
shifted to the west, and is a blowing series
of gales, accompanied by hail. Vesuvius is
capped with snow az are ell the mountains
sound the BAY