This is very interesting. I subscribed in part 3, is there any way to get parts 1 & 2? Thanks for your help, Brenda Hopkins ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Hurd" <beth.hurd@cox.net> To: <RIGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 4:24 PM Subject: [RIGENWEB] Great Gales (part 4 of 5) > continued from part 3. > > "At noon, after two hours of lashing devastation, the wind suddenly changed > to the southwest, calmed rapidly, and the sun shone upon now believable > ruin and destruction. During the height of the Great Gale of 1815, the > water had climbed approximately twelve feet above the average limit of > flood tide. Swirling, rushing, irresistible waters had extended well up > toward Benefit Street to the East, and nearly as far as Aborn Street to the > West. When this hurricane lunged up Narragansett Bay, a great East India > ship, the 'Ganges', owned by Brown & Ives, a craft of more than 520 tons, > parted from her moorings and crashed into the bridge at Market > Square. Through the bridge she hurtled in mad flight, followed by a > panicky procession of small boats and wreckage. The bowsprit of the > 'Ganges' pierced the upper story of the Washington Insurance Company > building on the Square, and she finally ended her sudden voyage on the > shores of the old Cove, a hopeless wreck, never again to raise her sails. > > Smith Hill, just back of the Cove, and the banks of the Moshassuck River, > were littered with wreckage carried inland by the flood. Twenty-seven > ships of various types and sizes also went through the bridge, little of > which remained after the waters had receded, and the wind had abated. One > sloop went as far as North Providence, and another made its way up Eddy > Street somewhere between Westminster and Weybosset Streets, and remained > there when the waters receded like a ship in a drydock, its proud mast > towering above a three-story building." > > continued in part 5. > > > ==== RIGENWEB Mailing List ==== > Bristol County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ribristo/ > RI Cemeteries Index http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/ > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 1/14/06 > > -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.18/230 - Release Date: 1/14/06