The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the YoungVarious
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The Little Gleaner, Vol. X.: A Monthly Magazine for the Young
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Christian literature for children -- Periodicals
GREAT STORM AT MADAGASCAR.--Particulars have been received, _viá_ the
Cape of Good Hope, of a terrific hurricane which raged at Tamatave on
February 22nd, which will long be remembered by the inhabitants as one
of the most disastrous storms that have visited the island during this
century. Eleven vessels at anchor in the harbour were totally wrecked.
Some of them foundered at their anchors, others parted their cables, and
were driven on the reefs. The damage done to the town was very great.
Not a house escaped more or less destruction, numbers of them being
utterly swept away. The British Consulate, a large new building, only
erected some months ago by the British Government, was almost totally
destroyed. Large fragments of this building were carried by the wind for
hundreds of yards, and for acres around the ground presented an
extraordinary and melancholy spectacle, being strewn with doors,
windows, beams, and other pieces of twisted wood and iron, besides
clothes and furniture. The Consul's wife, Mrs. Haggard (the Consul
himself was at Mauritius), and those in the Consulate had a narrow
escape with their lives. Most of the trees were blown down, and all were
smashed to pieces. Several lives were lost on shore in addition to those
drowned, but their numbers were few in comparison to the almost
incredible damage done in so short a time, the hurricane only lasting
seven hours. A remarkable circumstance in connection with the hurricane
is, that it was not felt forty miles to the northward of Tamatave, nor
its full strength sixty miles south.
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