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last, about six o'clock, just after 

 the steam-boat Enterprize had 

 left the landing at Sullivan's 

 Island foi- town, witli 50 or 60 

 passengers on board, in a sevei-e 

 thunder-squall she was sti-uck by 

 lightning, which descended the 

 chimney, and occasioned the 

 bursting of one of tlie boilers. 

 Ten persons, who were below at 

 the time, drying themselves at 

 the fire, were most dreadfully 

 scalded. They had previously 

 been drenched in a severe shower. 

 Two of tliem, Messrs. D. Tories 

 and J. Roberts, were so severely 

 scalded, that they died in a few 

 hours after. Two others, Messrs. 

 John Dobbs, of this city, and 

 JohnGribbens, of Savannah, were 

 very matei'ially injured ; six blacks 

 were also more or less injured by 

 this unfortunate accident, some 

 of them very badly. 



Since the above was in type, 

 we learn that Mr. Dobbs died 

 about six o'clock last evening. 



M'hen the explosion took place, 

 the boat was about ^00 yards 

 from the shore; and several of the 

 passengers, supposing that she 

 would be immediately enveloped 

 in flames, jumped overboard, and 

 attempted to gain the shore by 

 swimming ; some of them unable 

 to effect that object, got into tlie 

 yawl boat, towing astern, and 

 others were taken up by boats 

 which put off from the shore. 



18. Roseau {Dominica). — Be- 

 tween one and two o'clock of the 

 morning of Monday, the I5th, 

 the inhabitants tliroughout this 

 ill-starred and devoted colony 

 were awakened by the violence 

 of the wind, the falling showers 

 of heavy rain, and the most vivid 

 flashes of lightning, without thun- 



der : indeed the atmosphere ap- 

 peared to be charged with electric 

 fluid pouring in streams from the 

 clouds : the darkness was hereby 

 made more horrid, by being ren- 

 dered more visible. 



The wind came first from the 

 eastward, but afterwards changed 

 to N.W. and W. theu 8. and con- 

 tinued to blow with increased vio- 

 lence. Between four and five 

 o'clock it was tremendous from 

 the N.W. and most of the mis- 

 chief tliat has occurred was owing 

 to the dreadful blasts from that 

 quarter : towards day-light it 

 changed again to the east, and for 

 a quarter of an hour blew with 

 accumulated rage : it then be- 

 came a little more moderate, but 

 at intervals continued blowing 

 and raining until late in the even- 

 ing, when it seemed to have ex- 

 hausted its powers. 



In the town and environs some 

 houses and outhouses have been 

 blown down and some damaged, 

 fences in general laid low, and 

 many trees, if not down altoge- 

 ther, much torn up by the force 

 of the storm. 



It is not yet imderstood to what 

 extent the injuries are done in the 

 distant part of the colony. By 

 some reports that have come from 

 along the coast, we learn that the 

 canes and coffee-trees are greatly 

 destroyed, and the devastation of 

 provisions and vegetables of all 

 kinds cruel and melancholy ; and 

 if there should be by this calamity 

 a universal privation of these in- 

 ternal resources for the supply 

 and nourishment of tlie inhabi- 

 tants of all classes and descrip- 

 tions, we may envisage the ter- 

 rific prospect of famine, a visita- 

 tion nearly experienced in the 



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