The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and LandDefoe, Daniel
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The Storm: or, a Collection of the most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea and Land
Defoe, Daniel
Storms -- Early works to 1800
4. The Minister of _South-Ash_ had a great Deliverance from a
Chimney falling in upon his Bed just as he rose, and hurt only his
Feet; as blessed be God, our Lives have been all very miraculously
preserv'd, tho' our Buildings every where damag'd. You may depend on
all, as certify'd by me,
Thomas Watts,
_Vicar of_ Orpington _and St._ Mary Cray.
There are an innumerable variety of Deliverances, besides these, which
deserve a Memorial to future Ages; but these are noted from the Letters,
and at the Request of the Persons particularly concern'd.
Particularly, 'tis a most remarkable Story of a Man belonging to the
_Mary_, a fourth Rate Man of War, lost upon the _Goodwin Sands_; and
all the Ship's Company but himself being lost, he, by the help of a
piece of the broken Ship, got a-board the _Northumberland_; but the
Violence of the Storm continuing, the _Northumberland_ ran the same fate
with the _Mary_, and coming on shore upon the same Sand, was split to
pieces by the Violence of the Sea: and yet this Person, by a singular
Providence, was one of the 64 that were delivered by a _Deal Hooker_ out
of that Ship, all the rest perishing in the Sea.
A poor Sailor of _Brighthelmston_ was taken up after he had hung by his
Hands and Feet on the top of a Mast 48 hours, the Sea raging so high,
that no Boat durst go near him.
A Hoy run on shore on the Rocks in _Milford_ Haven, and just splitting
to pieces (as by Captain _Soam_'s Letter) a Boat drove by, being broke
from another Vessel, with no body in it, and came so near the Vessel, as
that two Men jumpt into it, and sav'd their Lives: the Boy could not
jump so far, and was drowned.
Five Sailors shifted three Vessels on an Island near the _Humber_ and
were at last sav'd by a Long-boat out of the fourth.
A Waterman in the River of _Thames_ lying asleep in the Cabbin of a
Barge, at or near _Black-Fryers_, was driven thro' Bridge in the Storm,
and the Barge went of her self into the _Tower-Dock_, and lay safe on
shore; the Man never wak'd, nor heard the Storm, till 'twas Day; and, to
his great Astonishment, he found himself safe as above.
Two Boys in the _Poultry_ lodging in a Garret or Upper-room, were, by
the Fall of Chimneys, which broke thro' the Floors, carried quite to the
bottom of the Cellar, and receiv'd no Damage at all.
_SIR_,
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