The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-11 00:00:00

THE GALE IN THE NORTH.

SHIELDS, Friday Afterntion.—The effects of the fear-
ful gale of yesteriay morning are likely to prove very
serious to shipping in the Tyne. It was at first com-
puted that 10,0001. would cover the damage done to the
ships by being brought in collision during the gale ; but
from 15,000/. to 20,0001. 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 smasiiing
and crashing into each other, is described as awful be-
yond description. It was high water about 3 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
following are some of the casualties which have taken
place :—Attwood, of Shoreham, foremast carried away ;
Swedish schooner Fibre, upset, lying keel up, near the
Hoy-hill deck ; Celle tess of Westmoreland, ofNe %mania,
lost mainma.standsatils ; Ocean, 'of Colchester, lost one of
her boats and stern stove in ; Sirius, of Shields, stern da-
maged ; John White, of Whitstable, loot his boat ;
Sheppard, of Shields,lostriadder, sails, and a boy drowned; '
the Evadne, of Shields, stem stove in, with other da-
mage ; Mary Piing, of Shields, dismasted ; Penelope?
London, lost part of her rigging ; Gemini, of Shield,
lost wizen top ; Hercules, of Aldborough, completely
disrnasted and a wreck ; Dientla, of Guernsey, lost
bowsprit and her topmasts carried away ; Premium, of
Shields, ta,ffrail gone and stem stove in ; the brig Ma
tilde both masts carried away and much damaged in the
hull ; an apprentice, named Henry Clarke, nearly killed.
He belonged to the Good Intent, of Bridport, and the
accident was caused by another vessel's mast falling
over the Good Intent. Some casualties happened at
Sunderland, but nut anything so serious as on the Tyne.
In the Long-reach a great amount of injury has been
sustained by shipping property. A number of ships
broke from their moorings at Jarrow-quay. A foreign
schooner is capsized and sunk. A vessel, the William
Sheppard, has her topgalla.ntmast gone, and is otherwise
Much damaged. Several ships have sustained injuries
besides, and a large iron screw•eteamer, the Sylph,
fitting out by Messrs.,. Palmer, of Jarrow, is reported
to be much stove and. damage I. A large floating
dock drove across from the. Coble Dean to the south
side of Shields Harbour and is sunk with a-brig called
the Advance on board of it. The Antelope brig lies
athwart the tiers at the New Quay in a very awk-
ward position, and some mischief has been done to the
fencing of the new floating battery building at Messrs.
Palmer's. The following vessels are upon the in-sand :
the Rosebud, a Danish brig, the Ceroline and Henrietta,
the James and Francis, the Sir Charles Napier, of Nor-
way, the Amazon, the Royalist, a Dutch galliot, the
Flying Fish, and a foreign brig, and the Brimas. A good
deal of damage has been done in the country by the late
storm—trees upro ,ted, stacks of hay and corn scattered
about the roads, and other mischief.
The injury to property in the neighbourhood of Shields
and Newcastle, and throughout the cou'itiee of Durham
and Northumberland, is very extensive indeed, and the
restoration of buildings and walls blown down will in-
volve an expenditure of some thousands of pounds. The
electric telegraph poles that were blown down upon the
North-Eastern Railway have been restored. Part of
the spire of TYnemonth village church was blown down
yesterday morning, and did some damage. .. -
In Scotland the effects of the storm appear to have
been very disastrous. . On the night, between Wednes•
day and Thursday, Glasgow and neighbourhood, and
the whole west of Scotland, were visited by a frightful
hurricane.

Throughout the suburbs the amount of damage is very
great. A portion of tire steeple of St. Matthew's Church
had been blown down.

There bas been very eerious destruction to property
in the northern part of the city. A large recently erected
etaik in the works of Messrs. Tennant, of St. Rollo;
was blown down, and falling upon valuable works below
has caused very serious loss. This was not the great
stalk, which is the highest in the kingdom ; but any-
where cise the chimney which has thus fallen before the
blest would be considered a mighty one, for it was
nearly 350 feet in height.. The extensive range of work-
shops in the course of erection for the Caledonian Rail-
way Company, at St. Rollo; have been disrupted in the
most serious manner—presenting all the features of a
mass of ruins. In the same district many of the monu-
ments 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 experienced is great fury in the
village of Govan. A young woman named Jessie Muir,
25 years of age, whose father bad died so recently as
Saturday last, was in the house alone, and began to get
very frightened as the storm grew in intensity. She
aecordingly went into the house of a neighbour, but had
only been there 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 ironworke, Govan bank, the roof of the boiler-
shed at Lily-bank, and the roofs of several finiall build-
ings in the district were blown off. Many casualties
occurred on the south side of the river. Two magnifi-
cent building sheds, erected about three years ago by
Messrs. Tud and M'Gregor, iron shipbuilders and
engineers, at Partick, were destroyed. These sheds,
constructed in the Most substantial manner possible,
were the most unique of their kind in the United King-
dom. They -were in two divisions, the largest being
about 340 feet in length, 60 feet in breadth, and 60.
feet high ; the second was 60 feet in height, 50 feet in
breadth, and 280 feet long, They were erected at great

cost, and while ships of the largest tonnage could be
constructed with ease underneath their roof, the artisans
employed were protected in comfort from the inclemency
of the weather. In a few minutes their destruction was
complete. About half-past 1 o'clock a tremendous blast
from 'the south-west caused them to yield, and they fell
with a fearful crash, .burying two vessels in course of con-
struction in the ruins. The inhabitants in various parts of
Partick heard the noise, and wore under the impression
that it was thunder. The immense timber supports of the
shed and the strong iron bars forming the joistiug of the
roof were broken to pieces ; but this is not to be wondered
at when;we consider the height of the erectionsand the im-
mense weight of the structure, there being about 150 tons
weight of iron used in the construction of the roof, which
was fitted with 34,000 square feet of corrugated glass.
The whole weight of the structure was from 250 to 300
tons. The steamer constructing under the western shed,
and which was nearly ready for launching, is, we are
happy to say, very little injured ; the other, of lesser
dimensions, the framework of which was in process of
erection, is very much damaged, but the exact extent
oannot be ascertained. The 'damage which Messrs. Tod
and M`Gregor will sustain by this disaster will amount
to between 15,0001. and 20,0001. The village of Partick
also suffered from the effects of the storm. The dwel-
lings generally suffered more or less through the destruc-
tion of chimneys, the tearing • off of lead, breaking of
glass, &c.

-At Whiteinch the storm was not less severe. In
Messrs. Barclay and Curie's establishment the smithy
and part of the engineers' shop were destroyed. The
smithy in the premises lately occupied by Messrs. Sande-
man and M`Lauriii %as unroofed, and the adjoining
workshops otherwise injured:
Pollokshaws and its neighbourhood were exposed to
the full force and fury of the storm.
The river and frith 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 moorings. The steamer Wel,ington has sunk
in the bay, and the steam-yacht of Mr. Malver, of Liver-
pool, remains in a similar position. The steamer Venns
has been stripped of her paddle-boxes, and her paddle.
wheels have been carried away.
The damage done at the BiOhmielaw is not of such a
serious description.

At Renfrew Ferry, the tide rose to such a height as
to flood the lowerflats of several of the houses to the
depth of between two and three feet.

-On Wednesday evening Greenock was visited by the
most violent tempest which has swept over it in the
memory of those living. Several of the boats which
were lying on the beach were floated away, and a
schooner on a neighbouring slip was half-launched; and
has not been heard of since. Serious damage was suf-
fered by the shipping in the harbour.
Of the vessels Iliftg in the roads some went ashore
in the neighbourhood of Heleusburgh, others drove for
some distance; and two large ships.--the Mohawk and
S:entor—rode out the gale. So fiercely did it blow,,
and so heavy was the sea,. that the latter vessel was
pitching bowsprit under with 125 fathoms of chain on
her port anchor.
At Ilelensburgh 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
gale.