New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-11-11
THE VEST INDIES.
ST. THOMAS.
,nuITIONAL PARTICULARS OF TIE EECENr
HrRRICANE.


,pp,TIoxAL PARTICULARS OF TIE Recent
HURRICANE.
HAVANA. Nov. 8, 1s67.-By the steamer Pan
anna from ST. Thomas On the 3lst of Oct further details
% Tho late terrible storm at ST. Thomas are received
The American ship Sarah Nemman the bark Aberdeen
and the brig Nellie Gray went ashore dsmasted and the
, charles sprague and schooner Clinton lost or
M, vessels destroyed British French, 10 Span
ib fo Dutch. four German one Bremen, one Moraylah
and four Venezuelan
TERRIBLE HUREICANE-LIsT OF VESSELS SUNK.
IT, ne E.iioroJ The TriDurG
SIR We arrived at st. Thomas on the morn
inc az the soth and found that the Island had been
visited NV the most terrific hurricane ever known there
The town IS partially destroyed the loss Of life very great
,o onunt Of property destroyed at present impossible
20 estimate the scene Of destruction and devastation i'm
ossib,e to describe The wind commenced blowing
rrotv stiff breeze about o'clock from the northwest
and about IL o'clock 1t changed round to the eas ana
bevv perfect hurricane carrying everything before IT,
II lasted about four hours but during that time RACED
with such violence that trees were torn up houses Ile
from their foundations and dashed to pieces SHIPS ana
steamers of the largest class as well as the smaller Vese
were hurled together and either sunk or dashed 70
some fifty or sixty vessels ashore. dsmasted or SUNK
and part OF their crews lost Thousands are
homeless, and the amount OF suheIlhg conlusiVl a.
cement impossible TO describe There is nothing oihs
everybody seems paralyzed; .,, ., q
Storm the passengers OF the old steamer Conway da o
TO In her, ana wished 10 ne trHsri
10 the RhOne new steamer OF the line, where they gn
consider themselves safe III case Oh sof ley we ,
corngly transferred and both vessels put 10 sea pu
strange 10 say, during the storm the kh0ne stfuk on
Peter Island her boiler exploded and all were lost VIII
the execution Of u 10; the Conway was thfOW oi
Tortoos Island and all saved. Up 10 inc uhe Oh
departure nothing definite in regard TO the oier s1ns
had been heard with the exception OF lOrtO0s OF VC
report says the town is totally destroyed ana hunDo
of lives lost. %. ..,s
The Harbor-M Master steinberg Of st. Thomas was
drowned while uoby attempting 10 rescue Olheis Hal
ing succeeded i'm his first attempt he was returning W. sc0
ond time, when his boat capszcd and lie lost ms nc
The steamer Columbian came in NJ about IL Oclocl anu
at 2 o'clock sunk persons lost. Her caig' WIS
hurricane seems 10 have been narrow, as the Manni0
from Rio and the North America from New YORK aulNeu
the morning after neither having experienced more tha
n stiff breeze. append list Of disasters, as lar as
known. ID. STEPHEN IAsBtotCh,
Surgeon steamship Marnion.
List of vessels sunk In the harbOr Of St. Thomas Oh the
29h October. 1867, during the gale $1,000
Columbian, lost worth from = NVVV
British Rhone. lost 90 Peters Island ~ men
lost British steamer OF the haThr - eno British hoon
Omshos, British schooner Ocean bet three
Clinton French bark Nelore Ieneh boat
Neoce French bark Emma Preach oop Syph spanish u"
captain Spanish schooner RDdo captain lsti hpauh shooncr
HennauO NcIoK AtagICa Aphonso Nen1naneah
sclooners Ibyen Panhi Oriental Conception Paucai an h
End Packet Danish bark Lus Holm bansi shooh
Dgtoh schooner Amaha Bremen bug johanna
The following American vessels were driven ashde ana
damaged: 49,.
Bayk Aberdeen ship Newman with about twothrs Of
Charles total loss 10 lost ing Ne
with part hides from brig finces Ace lng NeI
The American bark Esther blown OF from S'mber0
Island dismasted, aud Is just coming into port
DIR. j. HAsBRCUCK.
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