The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

premix, Oct. 6.
The following account of a very extraordinary and
destructive whirlwind which took place last evening
in L::istrick is given by S.twoltre e -We ice Lefler of
thin morning :
At half past fie. o'clock this mooning this city wee vi-
sited by over of th, most awful and destructive whirlwinds
over expereraced w thin part of Ireland, or, I believe, ever
kwirri to have occurred within thew realms. Tlw sud-
denness of the gale, with its d.structive cn.equences, are
aingst incredible ; bet the fallowing are tote enact garden-
kr.. lac greater portion of the 4sywan !Inc, with men-
gional.boners of rata, and now and then bright ounshine.
However, at the hoar above stated the horizon wsunted a
bright velluwish aspect towards the north, and a whirlwind
Sat in hom the north-weat, the effect being first eeperi-
Mewl at the North Strand, at the residence of Mr. William
Olecog, ship agent. The nom, in the air as the
whirlwind approached resembled the roar of steamers
&scheming wage steam from their funnels es
teaching the quays. la a inonisat the trees in front of
hilt. trateson'. hots were Nation, and borne aloft in the
air to a great height, the leave. and huge branches dangling
we for a few second.' wh, n • dense laxly descended, NM-
hied the chimney glage., demolished the window frames,
and, in a abort.: spree thou I writ. the wool, rushed aloe*
the W. Ilege-y-brelge , reminding three who were walking
the non, sense of whom only @sear .1 being carried over the
woo l by firmly bolding la by the iron puling ; lost they
were Lamed by the trew whisk linseed over them. The
terrific bleat attack the elle, alb. same gentleman, situate
at the south end of Wellegey-heidge, at the city side of the
sieve, and or powerful was the grit that the entire shop
boat, abutters, sash. window, gims,ffee.,wert shivered to pieces
see displaced two feet from the wall. An anplewoman who
man sitting in the locality wig slightly injured, and the ad-
joining atop window. instantaiwou.ly demolished. The store.
in Brun.wacli-street and on lionan'.-qsay were str4pped of
their heavy ideating, and the flues of the kilns hurled away
in the current. At Arthur's-quay nails were carried off
from the turf hog+ in the river and fell upon house-
top. to D. niasei-street. Two windows in Cruise's
Hotel, Cieorge'sstreet, were blown in with a tre-
at haloes made, stand of the gentlemen stopping there
being cot by gl Is.. The shock was felt by the inhabitants
of other dwelleasg. in the vicinity and caused otter con-
ate mason. The aneontrollable element was discernible
throughout it. devastating progme, resembling a heavy
body of dyed blown up from the Earth, awl took a cir-
cuitous route, 1T.10.111/( down Denweark-street, through
Munaret-street, and MO on, to Thomonol-gate, d g con-
siderable damage to house property, unreeling many dwell-
ing., soon., warehouo he. The Corn Marker in Man-
ge, t-greet was renviderably de:laved, while window abut-
ti-r., frame., and door-peat. wen Mown thou' like so much
tissue-paper. Many were lilted from terra firma,
aml spun around leke whipping top.. TWO Tarn, I am
sorry to a.IJ, wen• at badly hurt that they had to be con.
vey. J to IlenDitA, where they lie in a pre-
earwig stew. It i. rather r, inarkable that this estraor-
dwary phenomenon contiard its ravages to the totalities I
have enumerated, unknown, until it passed away, to the
ul the other portions of the city. Darkness
having act in soon alter, I am unable to furnish more in
detail. A. I write crowds arc congregated in every quar-
ter, talking over this unprecedented occurrence, which
will he long remembered by throe who witneseed it. It is

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