THE TORNADO AT PHILADELPHIA.

The damage done by the tornado in Philadelphia last Saturday night has been very extensive. In the enumeration of the buildings and property injured as published in the Philadelphia papers we find the following:
The Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company's Depot, on the Frankford Road, was partially destroyed. About one hundred feet of the shed over the track was blown in upon the cars, doing considerable damage to the windows of the passengers' cars, &c. The roof of their Machine Works was also blown off.
The roof and chimneys of the Hancock M. E. Church, on the south side of Hancock, below Thompson street, was also somewhat damaged. A portion of the roof of this building lodged upon the roff of MR. CONN'S residence adjoining. MRS. C. made a narrow escape from being crushed.
The gable end of teh Presbyterian Church in Howard street, south of Thompson street, was blown off and the greater portion of the roof and upper rafters carried away. The damage is so great that it will be necessary to tear down and rebuild the entire structure.
The "Old Brick" M. E. Church, at the northeast corner of Marlborough street, was totally unroofed, and a portion of the upper part of the walls and chimneys torn off.
A large and extensive frame building on Beach street, near Wood, was completely prostrated and demolished, some portions of it being blown into the Delaware River. This building was occupied by MESSRS. SUTTON & Co., as a foundry and machine shop, and the damage must be heavy.
The roof of MR. HELLER'S house, on Hanover street, near Cherry, was blown off, and the chimney forced over into the building, burying in the ruins two little boys, who were so severely injured that their recovery is considered doubtful.
A Presbyterian Church on Frankford road, above Franklin street, was entirely unroofed. A Dutch Reformed Church on Howard street, above Phoenix was partly unroofed. Another church on Fifth street below Thompson, was partly unroofed. A frame house on Frankford road, near Shackamaxon street, was split in half, and three brick houses adjoining were blown down to the first-story. In Franklin street, below Hanover, the roof was torn from a house, and carried a distance of two squares. The bricks blown down at the same place fell into a bed containing two sleeping children, and severely injured them.
The roof of ROWLAND'S mill, in Beach street, below Maiden was blown off. Scarcely a square in the entire district of Kensington escaped injury. The handsome unfinished new Presbyterian church at the corner of Seventeenth and Spruce streets had the scaffolding blown away. The marble door jambs of a house on the north side of Arch street, west of Twenty second street, were blown down. At the intersection of Third and Cherry streets a roof was blown off, and a trap door carried away.
The following is a recapitulation of the property destroyed.
Dwellings damaged -- 224
Dwellings destroyed -- 5
Churches damaged -- 6
Lumber yards damaged -- 11
Glue manufactories damaged -- 2
Machine shops damaged -- 2
Railroad depots damaged -- 2
Carpenter shops damaged -- 3
Chair manufactory damaged -- 1
Nursery damaged -- 1
Dye house destroyed -- 1
Boiler manufactory destroyed -- 1
Stables destroyed -- 3
Planing mill damaged -- 1
Whiting manufactory destroyed -- 1
Slaughter house destroyed -- 1
Total -- 265
Total damage over -- $100,000
Number of persons injured -- 9

The Bulletin of last evening gives the following additional particulars:
The rear of the brick building on Shackamaxon street, above Franklin avenue, owned by ROBERT LAUGHLIN, and a frame dwelling adjoining, both of which were occupied by MR. JAMES MAY, were seriously damaged by the timbers from the latter church. The last named house was crushed completely to the ground, and the furniture was wholly destroyed.
MR. MAY, six children, and an elderly lady who resides in the family of MR. MAY, were in the frame at the time of its demolition, and made a narrow escape from death. MR. MAY had his left leg and shoulder badly bruised by the falling ruins, and the children were miraculously saved. The son of the above named gentleman, aged about eight years, had his face and forehead badly cut, and, with two of his sisters, was saved from being crushed by a portion of a chair, which was broken by the masses of timber thrown upon it. The legs and arms of the other children were considerable lacerated, and the hip and sides of the old lady were bruised in a serious manner. MRS. MAY was also injured about the forehead and face by the pieces of wood which flew in all directions.
The sloop MARY, bound to Cantwell's Bridge, Delaware, with a valuable cargo of dry goods was passing down the river below the Point House when the storm came up. The sloop was capsized. The crew consisted of the Captain and four men. The Captain and two of the men got upon a flour barrel and some planks, upon which they floated to Red Bank, where they were picked up almost exhausted. The people of Red Bank then went to the relief of the other two men, and found them clinging to the wreck, and almost dead from cold and exposure. This morning efforts were made to right the vessel.
In the Woodlands Cemetery the damage will reach several thousand dollars. A great number of trees were blown down, and several tombs and monuments were broken.
On the Shuylkill the force of the wind was felt with great severity. Several canal boats were broken from their fastenings, and floated down the stream. At Vine street wharf they ran into a boat loaded with iron and sank it.
The bridges over the river were not damaged, although the wind made them tremble in every timber. The wire bridge swayed frightfully in the gale.

Latest By Telegraph.
Philadelphia, Monday, April 14.
Accounts from towns in the vicinity of this city give additional information of the ravages of the tornado. A lady was killed at Westchester, by a shutter striking her head while she was endeavoring to close the blinds. An innumerable number of dwellings and barns have been unroofed in every direction.
A train of loaded freight cars, standing near the depot of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in West Philadelphia, was blown from the track.
Ten loaded cars on the Reading road were driven a hundred yards from the place where they were left, and five of the number were blown off the track.

The New York Times New York 1856-04-15