"terrible destruction" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that has been destroyed in a severe or extreme way such as: "The fire caused terrible destruction to the town".
It's fuelling terrible destruction.
They just cause terrible destruction," said Abernathy.
A young photographer, turning towards a scene of terrible destruction.
He will wreak terrible destruction, believing that this is his holy mission.
As well as bloodshed, the Reformation unleashed terrible destruction of religious heritage and art.
See the hysteria – the straightforward panic – that ensued as 9/11 brought terrible destruction via every TV screen.
The Boston Marathon Massacre is a reality defined by death, murder, terrible human destruction, terror, and at its core -- hatred, pure and simple.
"Lulu" is a ruthless examination of the terrible destructive potential of a basic human drive, and of that favorite scapegoat for that destruction, the femme fatale.
You can read it as an investigation into the nature of freedom, of education, power, war, history, class, enslavement, the English landscape and the workings of the human heart… In our present age of terrible environmental destruction, it can be read most usefully as a book about humanity's lamentable inability to see nature as anything other than a mirror of ourselves".
Which just reinforces how terrible the destruction is.
Second to that is the loss of plant and animal species to extinction, which he said makes the globe less stable and is a "terrible, needless destruction of our most sanctioned heritage".
