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SAVANNAH, September 12* t 1♦.HURRICANE.On Saturday last this city was visited byhe most violent hurricane ever expcrieiircri linee its settlement. * It commenced by litrht t vintl and rain in the morning, until about 10 o’clock, when it began to blow with on- . :ommon violence, accompanied with heavy ■' *«in, and continued to increase until 6 ru 7 S it night, and did not erase before three inf* he morning of Surtday. !♦During its continuance, the slinking ofIhel.\welling houses, thescattering of the slatep Hid tile from sXich roofs as were coveted! with those materials, the falling of seveiali chimneys in the city, awl the levelling oft fences and tree's around, created an inn t-sant alarm, which the arrival ol morning | proved to be too well (oundcd. ;A chimney in falling, killed two children of Mr. J. Nelson; a house fell, and killed John F. Webb, and slightly bruised his childwho w as silling near him.Rut it was in the morning that the full horrors of the scene were wit nested. The shores covered with lumber and the ruins of stores destroyed ; the wharves with shipipng ; die hopes of the merchants scattered among die fragments or the buildings or floating in die river, and in many of those stores which withstood the gale,damaged, or ruined ; theinnumerable small boats crushed like egg v shells, and thought almost as little worthy notice; reeds and marsh grass tom up by ! the roots from the opposite island, and accompanied by numerous serpents, turtles,marsh birds, fee, forming a hack ground of the picture ; and the negroes who had survived the night on that island, composed wholly of rice plantations, screaming for assistance, and for the loss of their drowned companions, completed the affecting the sublime collection. Insensibility itscli could not have looked on unmoved.We have not heard from the ncighlmuring plantations, nor can we form any idea of all the damage done. **On Wilmington itUmd| Mrs. Striven, wife of Major Semen, and one of their children werdVtlled by the fall of the house.Onlludson’s island, Mr. Heftham and wife,w ho had the care of a plant at ion. wcrr carried away and drowned. The number of negroea drowned cannot be aiceruwcd. It u supposed no leas than thirty* . ‘Fort lt;»rten, at Cockspur island, is completely levelled, and all the buildingskntroy-ed. Of the wddim, T of theae who *crc there, escaped by getting on the roof of tie last house which tell, with 14 others, men at*wotnrti,soon after floating, the roof parted,and tbiy separately cacaped to land on W i|. mington island. A son of rapt. N 1cbolls i» among the diowned. Four soldiers ami a non commissioned officer were fortunately detained in town, as was 1-icut. Piott.Gun Bcvt,Ni»* 1. b wfely lodged inteornfield on Whitemarsh Island a *Hit 6rrilcs from where she drifted, ami within dp feet of • creek. It it hoped *hc Will be got off without difficult*. All her men are sale and ah* has received no damage*Sloop Governor Tatnall, of Chsrhdsa, is high s*id dry on VfUmlngloti island, near Mr. Uryam. it will not he possible to get off the vessel, hut her valuable cargo is safe.
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Wilmington Gazette
Wilmington, North Carolina, US
Tue, Sep 25, 1804
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