Lynchburg Virginian

From the Philadelphia Gazette, June 26.

DESTRUCTIVE STORM

We were visited this morning by one of the most violent thunder storms ever witnessed in Philadelphia. It commenced about half an hour after midnight, and continued until near three o'clock, during the whole of which time, except a short period, when there was a temporary suspension, it thundered and lightened almost without any intermission, with a degree of violence scarcely ever known in our latitude. The rain fell in torrents, and probably a greater body of water has never before been seen in some of our streets. It gives us great pain to record that in a part of this city near which our office is located, considerable injury has been sustained, and that less than many worthy individuals and families have been severely visited. It seems that at the time of the storm, it was high tide, which prevented, as supposed, the discharge of the water from the common sewer at the foot of Dock street. The opening was wholly due to the whole of Dock street, which is more than a hundred feet wide, presented the appearance of a sea from head to foot, that the water rose in front so high that the ground floor was flooded, up to the second story. Several families escaped mainly. Many of them were all up to the climb the roof. Dock street wharf, at a wharf on Dock street at the corner, have Second, not only the cellars but the batter was taut drop in the basement. The same tale little destroyed, as for it.

The catastrophe in the morning the distressing neighborhood, a truly distressing scene. Goods and other goods, hand, caho labor with their beds of cothna, and a yrets a ethe atirl, ore truly dmted name mard. A hkerplmgoenwni the cllr, hes blintirdy dstranl, aed everal peraors have hst toa a hrlrI to a thogsmd dallars. Batthiiatdl Iholesthottimeit will take the ellas to dey, and the injmyssuiael by the faaaduions of buddines maat be taken inta acoout, as a pt of the dumange.