CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11] — Page 52

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shipping in the Harbor and the buildings Public and Private throughout the Colony generally. In the present state of the colonial finances this disaster is specially to be regretted.

I find myself powerless to undertake at once a Military Sanitarium upon the Peak some 1600 feet above the sea level. I was therefore fortunately in a position to judge of the force of the wind from all quarters, and I consider it most fortunate that the city was protected by these repairs, which may be regarded as a precaution naturally devolving specially on the Executive.

The chief fury of the storm was exerted when the wind suddenly veered from the N.E. to the SW. about 3 p.m. on the 22nd Instant. I happened at the time to be in the Mountain Lodge on the Hill, and was saved from the storm when it blew from the Southward. Otherwise, I fear many thousand lives would have been lost.

In a very short space of time, by the falling of an immense number of buildings in the city, many lives were lost in the city, both on shore and in the Harbor, though comparatively protected at...

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50 shipping in the Harbor and the buildings Public and Private throughout the Colony generally. In the present state of the colonial finances this disaster is specially to be regretted. I find myself powerless to undertake at once a Military Sanitarium upon the Peak some 1600 feet above the sea level. I was therefore fortunately in a position to judge of the force of the wind from all quarters, and I consider it most fortunate that the city was protected by these repairs, which may be regarded as a precaution naturally devolving specially on the Executive. The chief fury of the storm was exerted when the wind suddenly veered from the N.E. to the SW. about 3 p.m. on the 22nd Instant. I happened at the time to be in the Mountain Lodge on the Hill, and was saved from the storm when it blew from the Southward. Otherwise, I fear many thousand lives would have been lost. In a very short space of time, by the falling of an immense number of buildings in the city, many lives were lost in the city, both on shore and in the Harbor, though comparatively protected at...

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shipping in the Harbor and the buildings Public and Private throughout the Colony generally. In the present state of the loclenial finances this disaster is specially

to be regretted

a v

I find myself

powerless to undertake at once

Wilitary Sanitarium upon the teak some 1600 feet above the

new called. I was therefore

bity-

position to judge of the force of the wind from all quarters, it most fortunate

and I consider it most.

that the city

10 As

protectect by

these repairs, which

ANV

the

of such visitations may be regarded

naturally devolving specially on

the Cxxccutive.

The chief firy of the storm

was exerted when the wind suddenly veered from the N. &c. to the SW.

about 3 D. Mc.

on the

the s

st Instant-

I happened at the time to be in

the Mountain Lodge

as the old

the Hill from the storm when it blew from the Southward. Otherwise

I fear many

thousand lives would

have been lost

کا ہے

very

short

the falling of

space of time by

immense number of buildings

in the city .

Meany

lives however

lost in the city

both avar

and Harbor though

comparatively protected at

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