The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-29 00:00:00

DREADFUL HURRICANE.

The metropolis was last night visited by a tremendous gale
from the south-west, which, we fear, has occasioned much da-
mage to the vessels in the river and on the coast. It rained
without intermission till twelve or half-past twelve, when the
wind increased to a frightful gale, sweeping over the metro-
polis with irresistible fury. In all the elevated and exposed
situations stacks of chimneys were blown down, and slates,
tiles, palings, trees, and shrubs were scattered about in every
direction. On the river the damage, so far as our information
has hitherto gone, has been very great, owing to the sudden.
nest with which the gale set in, but happily no lives have been
lost. The following accounts have been sent in from various
reporters :
Between two and three o'clock a violent gust blew down a
large stack of chimneys at the house of Mr. Rowe, No. 59,
Clarence• gardens, Regent's Park, and it falling through the
roof into the tront room on the second floor, shook the house
to its foundation. The inmates were instantly aroused ; but
one of them, a ming man named Joseoh Casp, was missing.
It was then recollected that he had that night slept in the
apartment into which the stack had fallen. The doorway was
found choked up with masses of brick-work, so that any en-
trance could not be gained. Casp was heard groaning. The
fire-escape ladder, No. 2, was procured, and he was got out
into the street, much injured, and removed to the hospital.
In Seymour-crescent, a large portion of scaffolding erected
there was blown down. Most providentially no person was
passing at the time. In the Hampstead-road, a labouring
man had his left shoulder dislocated—several of the houses
were partially unroofed, many windows were blown in, chim-
ney-pots of all descriptions were dislodged, and every street
in as strewed with their fragments, aiid those of tiles, slats,
&c. Clarendon-square, Gower-street, Guidon and Russell-
squares, and the adjacent streets, pt., sent. d a simnlar appear
once. In Rus'ell-square, a leaden gutter, weighing two hun-
dred weight, was blown from the roof of one of the houses on
the North side, c mipletely ac•oss the carriage way into the
garden of the square. In Compton-street, a milkwoman sus-
tained a severe concussion of the brain by a slate falling on
her head. _

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Considerable sensatiQn was excitt ;I in the neighbouiho: d of
Wiii.km.sti eet, Cierkunweli, by the faking of a high stack of
chimneys at No. 8, which broke in the roofs of No. 9 and 10
with a tremendous crash. The police were soon on the spot,
and it was discovered that at No. 9 the front room was occu-
pied by four children, who were sleeping in a small Waterloo
bedstead, and the falling mass had completely closed them in.
By the active exertions of the police they were soon extri-
cated, by being drawn through a small aperture, without the
least injury except the fright. In the next house, No. 10,
occupied by a Mr. Bennett, the tlfeczs were still more serious,
the room being occupied by Mr. Bennett's daughter, who had
only been confin-d a few days, who, together with her nurse
and the infant, was completely buried in the ruins; and it
was not until the greatest exertion on the part of her husband
and the police, that they were removed from their dreadful
situation without any injury. Had it not been for the miracu-
lous falling of one of the rafters in a slanting direction, and
thereby securing the bedstead, all must have perished.
At the east end of the town the accidents have been very
numerous ; in the Kiugsland-road, several hundred feet of
paling have been blown down.