The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

THE GALE AND THE SNOW STORM.

Th. great fall of snow experieaced on Thursday.
seems to have extended over the whole of England,
and has destroyed the entire Electric Telegraph
system throughout the oountry, sad also on. the
coctinent—the weight of the mow on the wires.
breaking them, and bearing down telegraph poets.
for hundreds of miles. Out of nine oontineatal wive.
only one remains by which caseages can be.
forwarded.

The foam a the storm in the west memos to have
been Torbay, where the injury to shipping and lon
of life are truly appalling. Out of sixty ships that ,
were seemingly at safe anchorage in the bay 011
Wednesday night, not more than ten 'AMA,
esoept in a mere or Ism crippled oondition, en
Thursday sftermou. Al Brixbain, ten moth were
pounded to match-wood at the beck of the pier, and
twelve trawlers were sunk and destroyed. Ths
some at this plans during the fury of die storm up
represented to have been indescribable; an 4 wide,
the trim of perishing men were mingling with dm
bowling of die tempest and adding to its horrors,.
the Brigham fhb-wives did an sot which will render
their memory imperishable in that neighbourhood.
Thinking only of bow they could save Ilk, those-
noble women are reported to have taken out their
mattreame and bedding, sad made a huge beams of
them on the quay, to show the shipwrecked sailors
the entrance to the harbour. Scores of mama who •
had lam their all in that wild mem are reported to.
bare been wandering distractedly between &taboo'.
and Chareson, but the inhabitants of the loaalityt
commenced to contribute to their relief
monis of tia. Literary lootaudie. we are told. Wllllll
thrown open, and the women promptly supplied
with clothing, hot lea, and food. The loss of ldva •
during the storm in the bay is entiniated at one
hundred lives

LOWPON. —Ai about half-past three o'clock on
Thursday morning a beery fall of ;sin wee followed
by • rinses snowstorm At the oommencement
the wind was blowing from the north, drifting the
huge flakes in the opposite direction, and it was net
loot before the blown-tops and every pleas where • •
lodgment was afforded were covered—in some in-
stances the soow lying above • foot deep. About •
nine o'clock the snow, which bad become firmly set,
began to give way, although She fall cosninued up to
one o'clock on Thursday afternoon. A great de-
notation of property is reported. The namerom
porta supporting the overtimes sad other 6861
wires were thrown down in all direetions.V
result of the mischief hes bees the Moppege of at
telegraphic maintunioatiose with the province..
Tbe snow asinsid cinch delay on the several railways,
and in many mime the IMMO for • trine was eatirely
stopped. As registered by Meseta ftegretti and
Zomotine. thermometer, the temperature was
I three degrees below freesias posat on Wednesday
I night, and at one o'ciniabac Thunday the
same antherity indicated two ahem that point.
A carioca incident occurred laths great deck at.
Westminster, an alao the Rom Gemd. cloch ..d.
that of the Royal Itioheoge. The meow armed into
the works and stopped their moveless., skint aft
the same moment, ball-past six. Om a Übe
graph wires caught • man round the wia.
worth, and dragged him into the Gnat Berm
Caaal, but b• was fortunately extricated %%me e.
save his life. On the different lime of !sinner %sid-
ing into and out of the metropolis the monk tea
such • blinding edict up= the firemen and drily.,
that they 000ld warmly distinguith the eignal-pcile,
and in many plane fog signals were med. The.
guards upon the Mid Kent and Itowth•Weseern lines•
amen that during their experience they e
encountered math • fearful snowstorm, Tthinr;i-Zr
i
river Thames from Teddingtou.locks to Battersea-
bridge the eye could detect all sortoof small ore&
sunk in the water, and only held together by then
ropes; and even mil bargee bad hese forced under
water by the weight of the snow and sleet that hod
fallen into than. The market prdem as their
way to the London market' with were
mush delayed by the greet einiamulatiou of snow.
In some places it was seven feet deep when it bed
drifted by the high wind. The parks, bath at lb.
West-end and even at Victoria, presented gloomy
somas, for in almost every direction branches of
trees could be seta severed from their tritake by the
great weight of snow upon them.

Erma, Thureday.—The storm lase night rat
with greet viulenoe in this Neighbourhood.
South Devon Railway was compinely blocked ap
with the mow, and between PI inewth and Newton.
ttie trafilo *ft totally weed IbisIlalle•-
110011. For wiles the telegraph poses were blower
down sad trees uprooted.- Telegraph eseninanks-
tioo in Rarter was completely out oR le limiter
several heildinp were blown down; and bay Inn
on Northershay, Seet'hominy, and Topsham Rent
I are uprooted, but we have not heard of any pawl

-Dry- ow, Thureday.—A great destruotion a hale-
raph luxes him takes place in the high lands through.
Devon and Cornwall in the late gales, and railway.
communication ha. also been inaob impeded. Tim.
London mail teen dee eh Plymouth at 6.25 a.m. on
Thursday delta reaoh that town until ball.. hoer
after noon an that day. Tao up-trains from
Plymouth could not leave during the morning. The
Cornish train. wars &leo delayed until ills afternoon.
On the Latuiriesion and Tavietock line the wires and
poste lurtu.Msly wows blows of the line, and thew
traffic was thanejor. DA impeded.

As • root of Ohs ravages of the dean, .4th.
a▪ idriots blocked up or in sons way impeded by its
aeon, it nay bo stated that the Pen Mae Con-
troller's list of places from which letters and Dews-
papen had DOI -beim received in doe cairn embrace
made from the undorenootioned town ia the %bed
Kingdom —namely : Arnim:ler, Chard, Weenie:seer.
(*inheres, Idonnestle, Ooleford, f/t= Haar
Wells (Somerset), Oahu, Mal , Maar
ha...m. Tottery, dengerford, Serosibr
lacrmon-in-thir Marsh, Sostoos, Woodstock. Nur-
16Zie,Chipping Norte°, Hanna, Inuneeenm, Ug-
b • the Channel Wands (Onorosey and Jong).
Petwortir, Midharst,:aseret, Lynes, lAPbc°ll.
Potential& Bedeck Biudiagford.
Hatfield. , Hertford, Rayons.
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car▪
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