The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-21 00:00:00

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. In the flight • between, Wednesday and Tluttsday
last such immense '.torrents
_of rain
,fell.inthis town
and neighbourhood, as net only to swell the , rivers
to an almost unparalleled magnitude,- but to 61411-
date the whole of the laud lying upon their borders.
Messrs. FORSTER and. BARGE. 4 wooden bridge at
Broughton Pord. was carried away by the strength
and rapidity of file flood, and the -merciless element
seemed at one time to threaten general devastation.
Horses,
.sheep, furniture„ and other effects,, were
seen floating down the stream,, nor was itpOssible to
save the property. All the lower.part of Broughton
township was -completely.overfldwed, and, we'are
concerned to add, several, cows are stated to have
been drowned. The. damage sustained, we have
every reason to apprehend,. is.much more consider-
able than upon any similar occasion. Most of the
cellars in the lower parts of. Salford, and the.tmder
rooms-of the dwelling-hduses in Strangeways,. were
entirely filled with Water,: •large quantities- of -which
flowed up the bottorn of :Greengate; its the--after-
noon of Thursday -the flood began gradually to

subside. . •
The above dreadful deluge, we fear, must 'have
spread its ravages to a wide extent. The mail-
coach from London to
.I,iverpool, which should have
reached Warrington:between the hours of eleven and
twelve on Thursday night, had' not arrived at the
latter town at six o'clock the following morning;
nor was the -f,ll,rerpool'irrail-coach- for ~I.,ondonable
to proceed farther than. Warrington, Owing to the
Cheshire side behig eptireirinurideed: 'The mad
froM :Chester to this town was detained by 'a 'similar
impediment. ;
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"One day last week 4 sister of Mrs-, Hogarth, wife
of Mr. Hdgarth, spirit-merchant, in Salford, died
of what is stated toshaVe been a putrid fever. Mrs.
H. in attending her sister, also caught the same dis-
order, which fatally terminated her ,existence in a
:day or two. afterwards. What renders this truly
awful and melancholy visitation the more distressing
is, that Mr. H. himself, his youngest child, rand a
female servant, .have all been attacked by the . same
dreadful malady; but hopes are entertained of their
recovery.
On Saturday se'nnight an alarming fire broke out
in the extensive distillery at the top of Mill-street,
Belfast, which, however, was got
,under without
doing so much damage as was at .first apprehended.
It was_occasiontid by one of the spirit vats running
over, which caused a dreadful explosion. Two.men
were much. burnt ; one of whom is since dead; •
• On Saturday se'nnight a child about five years of
age,. daughter of Mr. James Harrop, .of Ashton-
under7line, having gone into a neighbour's house -to:
play with other children, they all went into an
upper room, where a loaded musket had been left,;
'when, unfortunately, Mr. H.'s.child looked into the
muzzle of the. piece at the moment another touched.
the trigger,. aißl!,the contents lacerated the Intaitt's
face in so dreadful a manner, that she died the sanie.
evening. - •
:On Wednesdayi,se'nnight, as John Mabbott,. i.O
the service of Mr.,,Morris„. brewer, of Ampthill,
Beds, was returning home with a load.of barley, the.
rain occasioned him:to reach his groat-oat from the
Waggon,' when the wheel moving, his foot was.w,
entangled as, nearly to .twist_off his toes, which.
brought on a lock jaw", and -occasioned his death.in
a •few -days. . .
On Saturday afternoon a young man of respea
'able connexions, in the neighbourhood of Tooley-.,
street; took a boat at Dock-head, and ordered:the..--
waterman to carry him to Billingsgate-stairs.
gaining the middle of the stream, he rose, and ex-
-claimed ‘` will go, no farther ;" on which he pre-'
cipitated himself into, the river. The Waterman,
however, with much presence of mind, caught him,
with his boat-hook by -the collar of his coat, and eon-,
Irived to keep him afloat till another boat put off to
his -assistance.----He 441 for some time 'been in a
state of despondency.- .