Morning Star

Dreadful Storm in Philadelphia —The city of Philadelphia was on Saturday, the 6th, visited with one of the most terrific storms that has occurred for many years. It commenced raining early in the morning, with a fresh gale from the E. N. E, and continued, with occasional intermission, throughout the day. Several stocks of goods in cellars, in various parts of the city, were partially or totally ruined. The flashes of lightning were peculiarly vivid, and several trees were struck in the city, and one in Vine near second street, destroyed. At the corner of Second and Dock streets, the water was at one time, several feet deep, and, of course all the cellars in that neighborhood were overflowed. The roof of the Gas Works was blown off. The greater part of a brick house, in or near Vine street, on the Schuylkill was blown down, one man killed, and one or two injured.

The northeast and northwest sections of the city and suburbs have suffered to an immense extent; houses have been unroofed and blown down; board yards and coal wharves swept away; shipping disabled and dismantled; cellars inundated, and a vast amount of property partially ruined, or totally destroyed.

The storm extended to other parts of Penn. and to N. J. doing immense damage and destroying many lives. No less than 20 persons lost their lives in the neighborhood of Chester, Pa.

The lower part of Elizabethtown, N. J., near the creek, was completely inundated on Saturday night, the water rose to 5 or 6 feet in some of the houses. Several bridges in the vicinity were carried away, which lodging against the stone bridge in Elizabethtown, caused the water to overflow that part of the city. The Morris R. R. bridge, and part of the road were carried away, and will not be fit for use for some time.