The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-19 00:00:00

STORM ON WEDNESDAY NIG111:

[FURTHER PARTICULARS.]
In Gower-street (we believe at No. 48)
stack of chimnies fell down, and broke through
the roof of an adjoining house, when a nurse and
child very narrowly escaped destruction. The
daraage in the neighbourhood of Pentoseeile wee
very great ; a number of walls and palisading
were blown down, as were some housalateli
erected. In a small house adjoining Westml.'
ster-road, the upper part of the house was foieed
in upon the inmates, who were in bed, and severely
injured by the ruins. Such was the extreme
violence of the wind, that many of the stroll
poles used in the scaffolding of the new building.
now erecting at the British Museum were sitar
ped in pieces. An iron cowl placed on the top
of a chimney, at Goslings' the bankers, in Fleet'
street, was lifted several feet from its position,
and fell in the road, but did no damage. A,
house at the corner of George-street, Tower-hili4
had a stack of chimnies blown down. On Tower'
hill a large tree which stood opposite to the public'
house called the Round-about-House, was blown
down. The gable end of the roof of an adjoining
house fell on the house of Messrs. Wilson and CO;
63,Tower-street, near the bill, broke throughlan
hurt three young women in bed, two of that'll*
dangerously, that they were conveyed to Saint,
Thomas's Hospital. A stack of cliimniee fell
through the roof of the house of Mr. Hutton'ssa
eminent glazier, in Abchurch-lane, Loinberu
street ; fortunately two children in bed escaped;
damagese
s from are
stthilel
cmeorereer shemruiosues;
N:l.-143:a Judd
stack unhurt. On the other aide of the River the
cLi inni
street, fell with a tremendous crash on 2 he'll" d.
Cromer-streer,and levelled them with the grouaer
One of the houses was occupied by a butch
and the other by a broker, but none of tti°
Io
mates of either received any personal
Lambeth, the sky-lights of many respectable
houses were beat in, and the inhabitants put,
imminent danger ; along the beach, in gate'
and Rotherhithe, many tents which had beell erect'
ed for the accommodation of labourers were b1"11
down, and their fragments carried 'in different
directions. No. 19, in Castle-street, Holboru, the
house of Mr. Tobitt was materially injured; about
10 o'clock the sky-light fell in by the gale, will
accompanied with rain, made a terrible havoc 0,
the tiling, and placed the inhabitants in gran'
peril. The house of Mr. Skeffin, near Battered;
bridge, was nearly unroofed, and the rain vitro
into the interior so intensely, that the halls 1
wore
.
completely drenched. Many persons,
a_sol i
walking the streets were severely hurt by,tur:
falling of tiles ; and the extent of the injury
is, we fear, very great. About half-past eitb
_
o'clock a stack of chimnies at Messrs. Harrison
frit
the New Hummums, Russell-street, Covent'ed
den, was, by a sudden gust of wind, precipitaier.
into the street but most providential!'" 110
was PesslP
son was hurt ; one gentleman who
pa
TO
at the time only escaped by a few ye.
Bssex-court, Temple, a range of
buildings w
other parts of
completely unroofed. In various
*
the town the tiles Were stripped from thell"s
in,
and chimney-pots blown down. ColiSidergUady
jury was done to the shipping in the riVert‘sl'utia
is feared many persons connected therewith
lost their lives. We have heard of one ,trww/ but
was blown into the river and drowneur
securing the moorings of a vessel.

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