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The Daily Advertiser
New York, New York County, New York
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A severe storm with strong winds and heavy rain hit Baltimore last Wednesday night, flooding wharves and stores, ruining vast quantities of merchandise including sugar, rice, salt, and dry goods, with damages estimated at 50,000 pounds specie.
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Last Wednesday night came on the severest storm ever experienced here at this season of the year. The wind at E. N. E. blew with unabated fury, (accompanied with heavy rain) for upwards of 12 hours, which occasioned a most dreadful inundation of the sea. That deluged all the wharves, stores, and low grounds near the Basin and at Fell's Point, producing a scene of devastation and horror not to be described. The industrious merchant beheld with unavailing regret, the fruits of his toil and enterprize, in one moment, destroyed by the rage of combined elements.
Immense quantities of sugar, rice, salt, dry goods, and other valuable merchandize, were entirely ruined. The damage cannot, at present, be ascertained with precision; but it is estimated at fifty thousand pounds specie. While the contemplative mind, reflecting on the awfulness of the scene, which displayed the amazing power of the God of Nature, and the feebleness of man, gratitude towards Him, who "rules the whirlwind and directs the storm," must have been excited in every feeling breast, that the winds and waves were mercifully restrained from further ravages.
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Baltimore
Event Date
Last Wednesday Night
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immense quantities of sugar, rice, salt, dry goods, and other valuable merchandize entirely ruined. damage estimated at fifty thousand pounds specie.
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The severest storm ever experienced here at this season of the year came on last Wednesday night. The wind at E. N. E. blew with unabated fury, accompanied with heavy rain, for upwards of 12 hours, which occasioned a most dreadful inundation of the sea. That deluged all the wharves, stores, and low grounds near the Basin and at Fell's Point, producing a scene of devastation and horror.