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Violent Gale and Severe Earthquakes
The Interior Explored = Minimg Alat-
ters-Indlans Qutet-EifeTary Entertain.
ment.
PoRT TOWNSEND, November 16sh.-The
schooner General Miller arrived last Light
from Sitka, bringing the following report:
Ga the morning of the 22d of October
violent storm sprung up. increasing rapidly
in intensity from about 5 to IL o'clock, when
the barometer fell to 2S 20. The jamestown
parted one of her bow cables and drifted
about two lengths toward the beach in front
of the Indian Ranch. The cable attached
to the wharf prevented her drifting
ashore. The schooner, General Miller, OF
San Francisco, which had arrived the day be.
fore and anchored off Castle Rock, dragged
her anchors rapidly, and was drifting toward
the reefs opposite the wharf, when cable
sent out by Captain Glass. of the jamestown,
and made fast at the pier, saved her. The
wharf, which was raised for underpiDnipg,
was wrecked The pile-driyer parted moor
ings and was smashed on the Japousky rocks,
and many roofs and fences were demolished
on shore. Lieutenant Symonds, navigating
officer of the Jamestown. calls the storm
cyclone, and says it took the same course as
the memorable ons of the same day of the
month thirteen years ago October 20, 1867
when the United States ship Ossipee was
blown off to sea a day 8 course out, and had
such terrible handling. The course Of the
gale was first from the northeast, or point a
little north of east. and then it shifted around
to the southwest. A little before ] o'clock the
wind had almost COMPLETELY subsidized, and as 8
bells pealed from the deck Of The jamestown
hush that was wonderful in its stiffness fell
upon the wastes and along The shore, which
the furious storm had SO lately lashed. Then
came sudden sensation of uneasiness from
some unapparent cause, and then the great
log buildings of Sitka seemed to those who
were in them to have been seized by some
frenzied Titan in fit of fury and shaken
with all the infnristed rage Of 8
reused giant. The inhabitants rushed
out. to see their neighbors all pouring
out of their own houses, and to be
conscious that q severe earthquake had WIS.,
tied their city. The shock lasted from twenty
to thirty seconds, according to various esti-
mates. and was very severe. About Lalf an
hour later another shock, slight and short,
was felt, and in the course of the succeeding
forty-eighs hours about eight more shocks
occurred, only few of them severe, and none
lasting longer than two or three seconds.
Considerable damage was done to chinaware
or ths shelves of the stores and some of the
dwellings, by the first shock, but no serious
results are reported.
Messrs. Bean, Duncan and other miners
who went through Chilicott to the interior of
Alaska and tho headwaters Of the Yunkon
last summer, returned on the 23d of October.
They penetrated about 200 miles into re-
einn of vast plains, interspersed with ranges
Of low mountains and rivers. connecting num-
bers OF lakes. They found gold in many places.
and the deposits indicate rich placer beds in
the mountains from which they came. but the
formations did not show with certainty the
direction in which they lay. Much of their
tins was lost from ignorance Of the country
and want of any correct maps, but they think
the knowledge they have now acquired will
enable them to find the placer diggings
easily next summer, and they intend to try it
agsin.
Work is suspended at present on the quartz
mines near Silks, but large supply of giant
powder, tools, etc, are being received and II
is said that operations VIII be commenced
soon on n large scale.
The Indians are quiet, except for their daily
hoochinoo visits aInsng themselves.
A series OF weekly literary entertainments,
lectures, etc.. free to all, has bean COM
menced. and the educational outcome Of this
community is improving rapidly.