The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

TEE LATE BTOEW.

The effects of the storm of Monday are not
confined to the damage done to shipping, kc., at Liven ed,
an account of which we published yeeterday. We leant
Shut thronghout timoday night and Monday a tremendous
gale blew along the north-east coast and oomuntted terrible

mils.
A telegram from Great Yarmouth says :—" The gale
wee attended with frightfnl effect.; off this port. Sight
vessels went &owe to-day (Tuesday), and 40or BO lives were

seen Seed. As the venal' foundered with ell hands, their

names are unknown."

An account from Scarborough says that one of the most
violent storms of wind, accompanied with rain, with which
the neighbourhood was ever visited prevailed there on Mon-
day. The suddenness with which it rem was remarkable.
The weather up to Sunday night bad been charming fur
some time, and ft was thought that the fine fertilising
showers that had fallen at intervals dining the week were
sheet fogies place toe amuse ad sunshine, as the thermo-
meter went up towards eremite. On Sunday*. freak bream
blew from the north, but the weather remained fine.
During the night • considerable quantity of rain
fell ; but towards Monday morning it abated,
from five to seven o'clock, a lovely day • peered
to be breaking forth. The sky suddenly became
overcast, and the wind, from a smart biome, wrought itself
into • violent gale in a very short time. So heavily did the
hurricane rage that by nine o'clock nearly every street in
the town was strewed with tengmenta of chimney pots,
brickbats, and debris from the houses. A fatal ocounence
took 'dam in Globe-duet, in which Mr. David Perine-
um, ••••theeser, resided A sheet time ago, some beams
were erected immediately adjoining his, and since their
erection the chimneys have been heightened, and the
masonry most probably would not be so firmly fixed as it
would have become in course of time. While seated in a
room over his shop, between eight and nine o'clock, taking
breakfast with his wife, a sudden and tremendous gust of
wind smote the chimneys of the adjoining houses, causing
them to fall upon Mr. Parkinson's roof. The floor of the
room above that in which he was sitting, yielded to the
accumulated weight of the chimney and roof, and Mr. Par-
kinson was in an instant buried in the ruins. His wife
escaped comparatively unhurt ; and the children, who were
yet in bad, 11160 miraculously escaped. Assistance was very
promptly on the spot, and after • few minutes' search, the
unfortunate man was found amongst the debris, quite dead.
His face was frightfully cut, and the scalp from the eye-
brows upwards was torn and laid back. The floor of the
room in which he sat partiallypve way at the time, and
won afterwards fell through. The house is now a complete
wreck. The fineness of the early morning may be judged
of from the fact that • party of young men went out to sea
is a small boat, for an hour's pleasure, previous to business.
The storm overtook them, and though not far from the
harbour they were unable to gain it, and were drifted
on the rocks • mile or two to the south. Here, the water
being high, was rapidly becoming a heavy scarf, and had
not ale of the young gentlemen been able to swim, it is
doubtful if the whole party would not have been lost.
Casting himself from the boat, he battled with the wind
and water, taking with him the rope of the boat, and pro-
videntially landed, though with much difilculty. He
hauled the boat on shore, and thus saved his companions.
His name is Frankish ; he is a medical pupil with Dr.
Robertson, of Scarborough. The remainder of the party
were two sous of Mr. Porritt, druggist, and Dr. Robert-
son's errand.boy.—A man of the name of Crake had also •
narrow escape. He went to examine his lobsterlshing
apparatus, fixed at some distance from the harbour, and
not being able to return in consequence of the suddenness
of the gale, his boat drifted to the rock* sod be with diffi-
culty saved himself. —Mr. Hudson's steam vessel, Fame,
dragged her moorings, and was obliged to stand
out to sea, the direction of the wia.d., pre-

venting her taking the harbour. The windows,roofs, and chimneys of many house„ in the more exposed
pats of the town have been liown down. The new houses
on the South Cliff are completely dismantled ; and many
buildings in the old town are much injured. Gardens are
wasted, and it is probable they will not again recover the
beauty which they possessed only an hour or two previous.
Several excursion triune arrived during the morniug from
Leeds, York, Hull, and other places. The excursionists
will have a gloomy remembrance of Scarborough. They
presented a miserable picture as they passed through the
streets in their holiday attire, drenched and dripping with
the soaking rain.
At York also the storm raged with considerable violence
on Idonday. The Now Walk, on the banks of the river
Ouse, which is composed of two rows of fine elm trees, wan
to • certain extent demolished, 14 of the magnificent elm%
which helped to form one of the finest avenues on any neer
lathekl~derm,barfngbassdestroyed. Some of them, though
feet in diameter were torn up by the roots. Referring
.to ether parts of the city and neighbourhood, the Yorkshire
Museum gardens have been dreadfully d and all
the gardens in the city whether ornamental or ,ul, have
been totally destroyed.' The leaves of the trees have been
blown about so though the season were autumn instead of
spring, and in the midst of the city the windows are
spotted with patches of leaves. In fact, from the time
when the hurricane commenced it was of so severe a cha-
racter that hail and snow fell as thickly se though the
season were winter, and in such immense flakes as have
not been noticed in this city for a number of years
past The road from the city to Mahon was
stopped up from the number of trees haviog been blown on
to the road. However, the most serious pert of the damage
is in the orchards, which, we are informed, is almost in-
erodible. 'Frees which have given the greatest promise are
now stripped of their blossom, and present a most desolate
apperuxnee. Trees which were of the grattest promise a
few days since are now not only stripped of their bloom,
bat of their strongest limbs ; and certain vegetables are
completely torn from the surface of the ground. Within
the recollection of the oldest inhabitant of the neighbour-
hood never has such a circumstance taken place before.
A very violent gale of wind, with • heavy fall of sleet
and snow, broke over the Northumberland coast on Monday
morning about daybreak, and the wind continued to blow
in strong gusts until about nine yesterday morning, when
it moderated. The weather was extremely cold and wintry,
and to a large extent the open-air Whitsuntide festivities
were suspended. The sea was breaking rough and turbulent
on the bar of the Tyne. Two vessels, the Fleur de Marie
and the Dublin Lisa, drove ashore in the gale upon the
Herd Sand. The Dublin Lass has since been got a with
the assistance of powerful steamers.
Manchester and its neighbourhood did not escape.
Throughout Sunday the weather was tolerably fine, with
rather a stiff bream • but about half-past six o'clock in the
evening the rain began to fall pretty heavily, and the wind
gradually increased in violence until it blew almost a hurri-
cane. In the outskirts the trees were shaken to and fro
with great violence, the footpaths being partially covered
with leaves : lead was ripped from the roofs of houses, walls
stripped of phiem*, and one gentleman in Higher Broughton
had his bedroom window blown in at 3 o'clock on Monday
morning. The meet serious damage arising from the storm
took plain at the racecourse, Lower Broughton. Up to
Saturday night about twenty booths or tents belonging to
publicans bad been erected on the race ground, which was
I visited by large numbers of persons throughout Sunday.
In many of these booths large stuck: of ale, porter, due,
had been laid in, in preparation for the race days. The
wind, however, made short work of these booths, for on
Monday morning it was discovered that the canvas had been
completely stripped off each of them, the wooden frame-
work 'meshed to pees:, and in fact the whole became a
total wreck. Beyond this, we have not heard of aneserious
damage arising from the storm in Manchester or Salford.
At Manley, about a quarter to 6 o'clock on Monday •
morning, Et damage was inflicted. Considerable damage
was done the wind at the sew fire-proof mill at Bottoms,
Moseley w, now in course of erection by Mr. John
Mayall, cotton manufacturer. The mill is •very large one,
of which three stories are completed, the walls teeing of
stone, and about • yard thick, while large iron beams cruel
from side to side, upheld by iron pillars. The storm caught
one side of the mill nearest to Stall-bridge, and the break-
ing of the iron beams and pillars dragged the other side
down. The new building has thus been damaged, and the
walls burled down to the extent of seven or eight bays on
each side, and for two stories high, while nearly the whole
of the iron beams and pillars are smashed in pieces. The
is estimated at not lees than 10001.
damage
very stormy weather has been experienced
for the last two or three days. On Sunday afternoon there
waste a gale from W.S.W., and about half-pmt eight
o'clockqui the schooner Cambria, at anchor in the Sound with
50 fathoms of chain down, drove, and was obliged to let go
the second anchor. At 3 o'clock on Monday morning the
wind veered to N.W., but continued to blow very hard. On
Sunday evening, at half-past 8 o'clock, the Netherlands
screw steam frigate Zeeland, Captain H. Wipff, parted her
chain in the Sound, when a second anchor was let go, by
which she held on. On Monday morning a government
steam tug went down from Davenport with the intention
of removing the Zeeland further to the westward, but she
had scarcely sufficient power for the purpose. The frigate
drifted to leeward, and coming in contact with Mew..
Wigram's mummer ship Suffolk, the jib-booms of both
were carried away.

TIM GALS-FILM', 113A1 YORK, TULSDAT NIGHT.
—We were visited yesterday by a terrific storm. Thirteen
fishing yawls, without their crews, belonging to Filey, and
riding in the bay, were caught in it. They drove from
their anchors far into the see ; many of them lemma total
wrecks, and others were seriously injured. One of them,
more fortunate than its companions, hung by her anchor,
after having dragged it nearly a mile ; her name wee the
Charles Wesley. filer owner entreated that the lifeboat
of the Royal Lifeboat Institution should he sent off to save,
if possible, his property. Thuest was forthwith com-
plied with ; the lifeboat plunged at once through the
boiling surf, and soon reached e yawl, which was after-
wards brought to shore by her, without the slightest
injury.

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