The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-12-17 00:00:00

OKIKAT STORY &ND DAMAGE.

As if not estiefied with the wreak and ruin wrought
on the 25th alt., the wind blew with fearful •i061:10111
on Sunday night, but we are thankful to say without
the dread rmults that followed the storms of a fortinght
ago, falling tiles and chimney steaks being the male
portion of the wreck that was strewn about, and
although extreme danger was nest to many, 701 00 life
haa been lost. The •ind incremed in violenoe as
Bonder evening panted into night, and blew from
W.S.W., with force 9, the squab' puffing In with force
No. 10. Owing toils being more to the westward than
the fatal storm of the 25th, ships were not exported to
snob extreme danger of being driven into the Wert Bay;
bats large number of persona visited the Chesil Beech
at the beginning of the storm. The wove', lashed late
enormous breakers, beat upon the pebbles with great
tory ; but there were no human lives hanging upon the
slender thread of an inch and half Manilla rope. about
half-past woven, a chimney stack at the Ferry Bridge
Inn yielded to the wind's form. and canto crashing
down the roof, into a bedroom, where • piece about 6
ft. long fell on the beedsteed, and mashed it utterly
with such a blow that the Boor beneath masked.
Providentially, no one wee In the bed, or they must
have met instant death. The Boor and esaiog would
probably have given way, but for being pertially
supported by a partition which reparitten the bar from
the passage, end this prevented the ruin extending.
For of the mestgaard were on the watch there to be
I ready to assist any vessels in clinker, and they
rushed into the Perry Bridge Ina, hearing the troth, sad
shored up the Boor to prevent further damage. Bo
terrille dd the fere@ of the wind beanie that a fishing
'erre* lying on the sand we. aught by • Feat, and
blows up almost like • feather in the sk, to a height
estimated at 90fL or 40ft.,end It same dawn up*n the
rails at the sad of the Bridge. Other sibilantly pots
were blown down, and a !inlay encoded. about mid-
night the wind veered round to the westward, a safer
quarter for .hips, is by It they would he able to escape
getting embayed ; but it still blew with tremendous
foree. In the morning there were &maw all over the
torn of Weymouth, walk mad 'Wow shanks blown
down, and houses woofed, too swerves to mead=
at length, and there we. seek a seem of wash as hoe
not beim witnessed for many years pest.
Kra Dow'e—Losghill, about 15 or 90 yards at wall
were rocked about by Om wind blowing is gods suidant
the iron Meeting with which the garden sails were
lined, and the brickwork we. moved oat of lie pralMea,
and threatened to fall, until It was mewed by being
strapped with ropes.
Longbill Terrace—a imag sine chimney pet wen
.blown off into the reed, and the chimney sleek
damaged. him s chimney dm& blown down one real,
whiolt was mashed.

Landerlowns—A window lc ths Mayor's bones wr
blown in. There was la this aristocratic didn't
great destruotion of armchairs and garden lights.
Si. Lerstarerstorrase—The Bev. W. Lewis's study
window was sorbed by She wind.
Union Plass, Charity—The hears wasupied by
P.O. Bartlett and Mr. Nudge unroofed so mush that
tho 000upante had to leave the bedrooms.
Holcombe Rola Qtry—Tbis shutter a the George
Inn was strained so violently by the wind that the net
broke off the shutter bolt, and the shatter flying open
stook a boy nosed Alfred Veal violently os the head,
and knocked hies down as Me tramway. He was or
mod Arne and attended by medical gratleras. It
wee at drat Mould that his de was is danger; but Its
Is now roaring.
Friary— Rouses suarocifod.
Corr Hotel—A stook it Wenner blows down.
New Gardesta—k lamp blown ottroly off the east
entrance and rotator off the south estrange ; both
these lamps were destroyed, and another was so bent
and loosened that it bad to be secured by being
strapped !bus.

Baia Hone; private Hotel--Cbininey sleek blows
down and root Bombed.

Peering haws to tho Backwater, we end that at Bet
Back at the Cowart Hall—a new will belonging to
Mr..Vertne woo blown down.

Old Poorhouse—roof riri;ed, Yr. Ellot's stable, sad
Mr. Collett's fousdry were In much tb• prodmm-
meat

it Mr. Reynolds's saw mill, the (root bowrd dire with
the words "Ported Stone" was blown down, and split
to pkoss.
Timber stores lately belonging to Mr. Betts.—The
timber* here had boon wised by the wind, blown over
and over, sod scattered in ell dire:Mena
Paring hence beck into Mery-stmet,
At Marra Limning, Bros., Ironmongers, aboat sine
c'elock, part of the drawimproom ahlroor Stalk with
a large zum fennel, oar* down luta the street. Lath.
risks began to fmU, Yr. J. 1). Harvey, an old gentle-
man, was being drawn by in a °hair ; but the &airman
frlwttened that h. dad to ammo hi. life. bring
the whealir and It. ordparit In the danger. Mr.
Harvey providentially reaped, and Mr. T. Farwell
watehmaker, we. the corm of his being drawn out of
the way
Clor, photographer, bad one of his upper windows
blown tn.

Alpnrk-street—two eldinnityl blown down.
Wf slopskimat nod Rlohnzond tonna, lost two chimney
stacks snob;

Crmosnt;street—ot Mr. Abbott's wires house' part of
the chimney steak with fora chimney pote fell and
carried away pin of the roof.
Belvidere—Fear were blown from
No. 4, and amashri =snit 5.
Oroeshifi—ji he Gibbearfa house suffered inch. Net
only did the elainney Mask fall ; but A nate down oa
the roof, broke the ratters Mks laths, larded away the
and wrought general rata In the upper storsy.
Mr. Derenish's house, opposite St. John's Marsh,
were partly covered with lead, whiah the wind got
ander, and doubled and rolled ap so If it were paper.
Wadoworth's farm did not escape; his risks WWII
beaten almost out of shape and their thatoh sent flying;
while Sze roof of a barn was partially stripped. The
thatch otos@ hay rink woe earned away natkely, and no
more seen, being probably blown Mao Lodzaeor.
At Siam Hour, the reeidaries of W. Hersey, Esq.,
• chimney sink was blown ea the root of a new wing
lately added to the house. The roof was broken in,the
rafters being smashed. Fortunately, beneath was aa
unnonpiod room, used for lumber, so that no WM was
hurt.

Up lo the presort time' we have not heard of soy
Injury to If. or limb, in house, where all the
tomato menu to hen wonderfully escaped, or, with
on inception, in the streets, althowsk signboards Iron
venous Inns and other plane were blowing down, and
tho danger was inareseed by about half of the public
Lunn being blows out.
The telegraphist ossusinloation was slopped for a
tine by the lovnliag of • pole, and the ennui=
the wins. It was 'wenn, diMoull to re-
oonuouniesticsa with Portland, on anoent of a person
wrongly reesonoting the wine then, as will be nes
in oer Portland aews.

The pollee were -Onergetie is reporting the °Wrier
ikons, sad Supt. Vickery to smarted their removal,
and the wreek sod rabble were rapidly shared from
the streets The servisee of inieklayees, skein, es,
WINS in great demand, in essay plainest aeon The
wind nodsrml.dm little on Monday; bet 61 night II
blow wain very fiercely. However the priselpal
damage wee dose on ilimday night On Teeeday the
wind again Mil, and gradually almost died &way. The
work of repair preeeeded rapidly, sad very soon we
shail be a the better for the alarm