The Portland daily press., 1871-09-15

The Kingston (Ja.) correspondent of the
N. Y. World gives fuller particulars of the
recent aerial disturbances in the West India
Islands during the latter part of August than
came to us by telegraph:
The hurricane passed over Tortola on Mon
day, the 2lst, taking southery direction,
and striking the Island of st. Thomas. The
blowing commenced il the morning stiffly.
and came down in all its severity toward al
ternoon, when the barometer fell rapidly for
four hours. The wind commenced blowing
from north to northeast, and then changed
to east and southeast without any cessation I;
the gusts were terrific, but they began to
moderate about P. M. The vast majority
OF the laborer's houses have been blown
away, the sugar estates unroofed, and most of
the mills injured. The provision and fruit
trees have been blown down, and the cane
fields Frustrated. Three iron chapels belong
ing to the Wesleyans were blown to pieces
one church in Road Town was stripped of
its IRON roofing, and that at Virgin Gorda
bi oxen to smash. The jail and the whaives
have been wrecked, but the other public
buildings have been saved. Only one man
was killed, and another injured.
st. Crox, always singuarly for tunate in =,
seasons of this kind, escaped the hurricane
The blowing commenced at Antigua.
Monday, the 21st of August, and the hurri-
cane which followed, causing immense de-
struction OF lite and property, was greater
than has ever been known by any former Wis
itatlon. indications of an approaching storm
were observed on the Sunday evening when
the barometer began to sink. After mid
night the storm had fairly set in. At4 A. M.
on Monday the barometer began to fall with
u mt NJ alaIs 81
nj. the full force of the hurricane was Ielt.
and it was at this time that large number of
houses both in the city and country. together
with the works on the estates, were injured
Not an estate on The island has ESCAPED with
out serious injury, and on great many the
whole works and buildings are completely
destroyed The suffering among the people
is fearful, and the loss of life has been very
great The shipping in the barbor has SUI
Tered seriously, every vessel or boat having
been driven ashore or sunk. The loss of lille
among the shipping in port has been singu-
Iary small
:, The hurricane swept over St. Kits on
monday, the 2lst, but ON the Sunday even
lpg previous there were indications of storm
brewing. The storm began on Monday morn
NJ ~ Tue WIND blowing from northwest at
0 'oo, ana there was sudden hull, the wind
Feereu round and 1t soon began TO blow hard
rom the southwest. The barometer fell from
29.95 to 2S.47. If we had had the full force
OF the storm, it was sufficient to have wreck.
I'd every building on the island, and done
quite as much mischief as it did in An,ioua
which is only sixty miles off. The poorer
classes have suffered most, and they are in
great distress.
st. John suffered somewhat severely from
he hurricane and the mischief has been very
ereat but by no means as great as the mis-
chief done at Antigua.
The hurricane swept over the Turks Is
lands throwing down many huts, houses, and
villages. There were very few vessels about
Al the time. One or two of these have lost
disabled.
hnr.,a VEL, 70 Rico came in for The tail end of the
rnit Inc and, with the exception of few
ONE IN, ' li,t1o Which Which were thrown down, and
inn ae p 1,..le dammaee to the teleoranhic Land
ed altogether. w '"io 10 nave escap-
90 lar as has yet been ascerta;noa A.,
was no earthquake at st. Thomas as tnele
hrst reported--only hurricane. T 10 was s,s al
ana wharves have not been much hurt nes