The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-11 00:00:00

THE HURRICANE IN THE NORTH

We mentioned in our last, The fact of the visitation of
Glasgow and the north. by a terrific hurricane and storm
on the night between Wednesday and Thursday last. The
following details have since reached us. During the
whole of Wednesday, at Glasgow, heavy rains fell at inter-
vals, accompanied by wild squalls, which, after nightfall,
lengthened out into stormblasts of the most potent
character, and continued during the entire night with
greater or less intensity. I❑ the morning the city pre-
sented a desolate and battered aspect. Roofs were
untiled, chimneys and chimney cans overturned in all
directions, and the streets strewn with the fragments.
Throughout the :suburbs, the amount of damage is very
great. A large chimney stalk, situated between Brown-
street and College-street,was blown down, and has damaged
more or less, five inhabited houses. A portion of the
steeple of St. Matthew's Church had been blown down.
spirit cellar in course of being fitted up in Elderslie-
street had its windows blown in and the interior
completely gutted, Mr. Steven's wrights'-shop, Elliott-
street, has been very much injured. A chimney stalk at
Wilson's mills, Old Patrick-road, succumbed to the blast,
and has damaged Other adjacent buildings in the fall.

Mr. Hill's workshop, Kent-road has been blown down.
The gable of a dwelling-house in Lancefield was forced
over, but fortunately no person was hurt. In the eastern
district a chimney fell at 231, Main-street, Bridgeton,
and at the same time part of the roof was driven into
the dwelling of Mrs. Hamilton, by which she was
killed on the spot, and her daughter much hurt. A large
new tenernent, belonging to Mr. Aitkenhead, baker,
Muslin-street, Bridgeton, and situated in the 011 Dal--

marnock-road, was blown down. It was four stories in
height, and newly finished. Toe front chimneys of the
building at 162, Bellgrove-street, fell in, and carried part
of the roof with them, by which Mrs. Napier and another
woman wete much hurt. The roof of the foundry in Ker-
street is down, &c. Many of the police watchmen wete
hurt by the falling ruins, but none of them severely. The
destruction of gas lamps has been also very great. There
has also been very serious destruction to property in the
northern part of the city. A large recently erected stalk
in the works of Messrs. Tennant, of et.
Rollox, was blown down, and falling upon valuable
works below has caused very serious loss. The extensive
range of workshops in the course of erection for the
Caledonian Railway Company, at gt. RolloX, have ,been
disrupted in the most serious manner—presenting all the
features of a mass of ruins. In the same district many of
the monuments have been damaged and gravestones laid
flat in the Necropolis, and injury of a similar character
has been sustained in Sighthill Cemetery. The hurricane
was nxperienced in great fury in the village of Govan.
A young woman, named Jessie Muir, 25 years of agO, went
into the house of a neighbour, but had only been thde
for a few minutes when the chimney fell through the roof
of the house, by which she was deprived of life on the spot.

In the southern part of the city the destruction of pro-
perty was great: During the morning the roof of Mr.
Dixon's ironworks, Govan-bank, the roof of the boiler
shed at Lily-bank, and the roofs of several small ',findings
in the district Were blown off. Many casualties occurred
on the Oath side of the river. Two magnificent building
sheds, erected about three years ago by Messrs. Tod
& M'Gregor, iron shipbuilders and engineers, at Partick,
were destroyed. In a few minutes their destruction
was coMpletei About half-past one o'clock a tremenduous
blast from the south-west caused thCin to yield, and the)
fell with a fearful crash, burying two vessels in coarse of
construction in the ruins. The whole weight of the
structure, was from 25b to 300 tons. The damage which
Messrs. 'rod and *Gregor will sustain liy this disaster
will amount to between 15;000/ and 20,0001. The village
of ,Partick also suffered front the effects of the storm.
At Whiteinch the storm was not less severe. Pollok-
shaws and its neighbourhood were exposed to the full
forcis mid fury of the storm. The river and
Dith at Bowling were terribly agitated.. ' Ships were
driven from their moorings from the tail of the
bank, and a large vessel was driven up the river by
the gale, and cast ashore near Cardross bay, where she
lies on her beam-ends. The steamers which were moored
or lying in ordinary," in Bowling bay, were driven from
their meetings. The steamer Wellington has,sunk in the
bay, and the steam-yacht of Mr. Ariver of Liverpool,
remains in a similar position. Tne steamer Venus has been
stripped of her paddleboxes and her paddlewheels have
been carried away. The damage clOne at the Broomielaw
is not of Such a serioud defeription. jAt Renfrew Ferry the
tide rose to such a height as to flood the lower data of
several of the houses to the depth of between two and
three feet. The gas was extinguished, and the inhabitants
of the houses referred to were under the necessity of
Standing tipon tables; or sitting, non the cilia of the
windows, from half-past one o'clock till tliree, When
the tide receded. As a matter of course, much valuable
property was destroyed. By JO o'olock the gale was at its
height at Paisley, and slates and chimney cans were flying
in all directions. In the course of the night a number of
stacks were blown downiand a number of houses completely

destroyed, the roofs carried off, the windows smashed in
and made total wrecks. A three storey house used fcr the
printing business was completely demolished. All the
seabathing places haye suffered. Shore-street of Gourock
was flooded, .windows were driven in, and two side pin-
nacles of the U. P. church thraWn td the ground. At
Largs several houses were unroofed, the quay damaged ; the
pier at Wemyss Bay was destroyed ; and a portion of that
at Dunoon carried away. At lielensburgh the loss of
property has been very great, (some of the residents
estimating it as high as 100,0001.,) as it was exposed to
the whole fury of the sale. Tile tide flooded the
shops and houses in the street close to the beach, and it is
rumoured that several people have been drowned. The
storm was very violent at Ayr. The new Free
Church in course of erection in Wallacetown has been
seriously damaged. The frotit gable, composed mostly of
elaborate masonry, has been blown doWn, and one of the
side walls has also been injured. The storm was bitterly
experienced along the vale of ,Clyde. It appears to have
been at its height from twelve till three o'clock in the
morning, after which it gradually died away. ft was pre-
ceded on Wednesday evening by a very peculiar lurid-like
aspect in the western heavens.
The effects of the fearful gale on Thursday morning are
likely to prove very serious to shipping in the Tyne. It was
at first computed that 1J 0,000 would cover the damage done
to the ships by being brought in collision during the gale ;
but from £15,000 to £20,000 will be nearer the mark. The
storm was most fearful in Shields harbour about three
o'clock in the morning, and the spectacle presented by ships
breaking loose from their moorings, and smashing and
crashing into each other, is described as awful beyond
description. It was high water about three o'clock in the
morning, when the gale was at its height, and the Tyne
presented the appearance of an inland sea rather than a
commercial river. No small craft could live, and it was
impossible to get steam tugs to assist the vessels that were
doing so great an amount of damage. The injury to pro-
perty in the neighbourhood of Sheilds and Newcastle, and
throughout the counties of Durham and Northumberland,
is very extensive, indeed.

THE NEW OCEAN-STEAM LINES

FROM HAVRE

TRIAL TRIP OF THE BARCELONA

A new and highly influential ocean steam navigation
company—the Franco-American—are about to com-
mence operations in France, their principal terminus
will be Havre, whence lines will radiate to different por-
tions of North and South America. The principal agents
of the company are Messrs. Gauthier & Co., of Paris and
Lyons. The first lines of the company will be opened
between Havre and New York, and Havre and Rio
Janeiro. Several of the vessels are being built here by
Messrs. Laird & Co., and the first of them, the Barcelona,
made a very successful trial trip in the channel on Satur-
day. The Barcelona is an iron screw steamer, of about
1800 tons measurement, and 300 horse-power Agthe
machinery having been made by Messrs. Fawcett, Pres-
ton & Co., of this town. Her chief saloon is a large and
richly decorated apartment, and she has accommodation
for a large number of first and second-class passengers.
The Barcelona will leave for Havre this week, and will
sail thence for New York about the 25th inst., that being
the station for which she is intended. A sister vessel, the
Cadiz, for the same company, will be ready for trial about
the end of next week, and she is intended to be the pioneer
of the line between Havre and the Brazils.
These two vessels were originally laid down for a
Spanish company to run between Liverpool, Vigo, and
Havanna, but the operations of the company being tem.
porarily suspended, they were eagerly purchased by the
Franco-American Company.