The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

THUNDERSTORMS.

The metropolis was yesterday morning visited
by a somewhat severe thunderstorm, accompanied
by lightning and a heavy shower of rain. It com-
menced between four and five o'clock, and did not
entirely pass off until between ten and eleven
o'clock, when the sky became clear, and the sun
shone forth with brilliancy. About three o'clock,
however, the sky again became greatly overcast,
and some heavy claps of thunder were heard—the
wind suddenly rising with great violence. It, how-
ever, soon cleared up, and the atmosphere for the
rest of the day was much more agreeable.
The storm which visited London on Monday
night seems to have been much more severe in
various parts of the country, some districts having
suffered greatly from its violence, and loss of life
in one or two instances occurred. At Oldham, a
mill occupied by Mr. D. Mills, Lower Moor, was
flooded, and damage to the extent of about £2OO
was inflicted. At Middleton the rain and hail came
down in torrents for about forty minutes, and the
storm is said to have been the most severe one which
has happened here since 1829. The highway pass-
ing through the centre of Middleton presented the
appearance of a large river ; planks and chrildren's
carriages were swimming down the town. The
reservoir, near to Mr. Burton's old mill, now occu-
pied as a silk manufactory, by Mr. Joseph Chad-
wick, was flooded, and the lower room, occupied by
the warpers, was a considerable depth in water.
The railway was under water for a considerable
distance, and considerable damage has been done in
the neighbourhood. At Bury and Rosendale the
storm was very destructive, while at Haslingden a
woman was killed by the electric fluid. The town
of Malton presented an extraordinary appearance
during the height of the storm, the inhabitants of
the streets on the lowest levels being compelled to
turn out and by dint of sweeping endeavour to
keep the water out of their houses. A terrific thun-
derstorm also visited the Channel Islands on Mon-
day. The General Hospital at Jersey was set on
fire by lightning, and the whole of the centre of
the building gutted; no lives were lost.
The town of Windsor was also visited yesterday
afternoon with a violent tempest, which, at first,
took an easterly direction, then suddenly changed
north-west; the lightning and thunder were not so
alarming as the heavy shower of hailstones, which
were of a large size. Tiles and slates were swept
from the roofs of houses, large; limbs torn from the
trees, and the corn-fields appear as if a roller had
passed over them, as all the crops are beaten flat on
the ground ; nearly all the glass of the houses in a
westerly direction has been broken. Upwards of
one thousand squares have been broken at the In-
fantry Barracks, and Spital Cavalry Barracks.
The Military Church of the Holy Trinity suffered
severely from this cause.
A double fatality occurred from lightning on
Monday night at Ince, near Liverpool. A young
female named Hassam, the daughter of a farmer
residing there, was in the kitchen of her father's
house when she was struck by the lightning and
killed. The fluid passed from the kitchen into a
stable adjoining, struck a horse, and knocked down
Mr. Hassam, who was standing near. The animal
was killed, but Mr. Hassam was fortunately
uninjured. These are the only fatalities in the
neighbourhood of Liverpool yet repotted, though
the thunderstorms, which have been frequent since
Sunday, have done a good deal of damage to houses
and other property.
A thunderstorm, with rapid flashes of sheet
lightning, occurred at Birmingham yesterday
(Wednesday) afternoon, abourt four o'clock. There
was a continuous roll of thunder, with heavy rain,
for more than half an hour, after which it partially
subsided, but continued for nearly two hours. The
atmosphere was in a vey close and heated'state.

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