The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-03 00:00:00

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The metropolis was visited on Frlaay evening ny a
heavy gale, which continued to rage with great fury
throughout the night, and almost attained to the violence
of a perfect hurricane on the following morning. Indeed,
it was not till late on Saturday afternoon that the tempest
began perceptibly to abate, after having wrought an
amount of havoc to life, limb, and property which would
not seem to have been equalled for many long years past.
On the Thames the damage done to shipping has been
great, and several persons in charge of the river craft have
perished. Some reports give the number drowned at from
sixteen to eighteen souls. The catalogue of houses un-
roofed, chimney stacks and signboards blown down,
windows dashed in and similar casualties, attended
in many cases with serious injury to the person,
and in not a few more with fatal results, is exceed.
ingly heavy. The district of Bow seems to have
suffered severely from the effects of the hurricane.
At the dyeworks of Messrs. Farman and Sons, Old
Ford, a shaft fell, shortly after one o'clock on Saturday
afternoon, upon the roof of one of the workshops, causing
the death of three women and injuring several others.
The upper portion of the shaft fell straight through the
roof, the brickwork scattering in the room beneath, in
which a great many women were working, and carrying
away the floor and part of the walls. Women, roofing,
and flooring were all heaped together upon the basement,
and when assistance was procured and the rubbish and
bricks partially cleared away, the dead body of Isabella
M'Cormack, a married woman; aged 44 years, was drawn
out from under a rafter in a fearfully mutilated state.
Next was discovered underneath the debris Elizabeth.
Thomson, aged 40 years, a married woman, living at 9,
Summer-street, Bow. Both her legs were fractured, and
severe contusions were upon almost every part of her.
body. She was still alive, and was at once conveyed to.
the London Hospital, but she expired five minutes after•
her arrival there. At the eastern part of the basement the
body of Grace Drenning, aged 38, married, and living at
14, Spring-street, Bow, was found covered with bricks and
rubbish. Mrs. Drenning, who was dead, was sister to.
Mrs. M'Cormack, who also lost her life by this melancholy
accident. The other sufferers who were at work in the
room when the shaft fell were Elizabeth Furnace, aged
10 ; Mary Furnace, 40 ; Elizabeth Turner, 78 ; Elizabeth
Field, 70 ; and Mary Marshall, aged,74 years. These poor
women, like those who were killed, were covered with dust
and rubbish, and were scarcely recognisable. All were
suffering from severe contusions ; one had her thigh frac.
tured, and three received a serious shock to the nervous
system. They were taken to the London Hospital, where
every attention was paid them by Mr. F. M. Mackenzie,
the house-surgeon. It is consEered by the medical men
that the older women are in a very precarious condition.
At Old Ford, Mr. Carman, surgeon, of Bow, rendered
every assistance in his power to the women as they were
taken out. The buildings at the dyeworks are evidently
old, and a shaft may now be seen elevated above them,
having a bend in it and iron staybars attached to it. In
Shadwell the gable-end of a house, in which a family
named Mumford lived, was blown down. John Mumford
and his children—John, aged 12 years, and Eliza, aged 9
months—were sitting in a room upstairs at the time.
Mumford jumped out of a window and injured his back,
and his son, who at the time was carrying his little sister,
received several contusions from the bricks. T..e infant
was much cut about the head. Mumford was attended as
an outpatient at the London Hospital, and the children
remain in at present.

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In the City, at No. 1, Prince's-place, Coleman-street, an
immense stack of chimneys, the brickwork of which
weighed nine tons, was blown down. It fell on the roof
almost in a mass, and brought down two-thirds of it into
the upper rooms of the house. In these rooms were three
children—Thomas William Myall, aged 9, Lucy Elizabeth,
his sister, and Emily Banks, a girl of 14, who was engaged
minding the baby. The baby was killed on the spot.
Some of the rafters, falling so as to form a sort of pent-
house from the mantleshelf to the flooring right over the
girl Banks, saved her life, but she was injured, though
not seriously, by being struck with portions of bricks and
tiles. The boy escaped unhurt. A block of brickwork
weighing half a ton fell within four inches of the little
girl's head. Her escape was something miraculous. It
was thought she had been killed, until, to the surprise of
those who entered the building, she crawled out from
among the rubbish. The house where the accident took
place is one of a row said to be 200 years old.

The Strand did not escape the ravages of the gale, for
..,everal sheets of glass in the Charing-cross Hotel and
It.a.ilway_Statian Aware.. demolished;--and it"v with -no
little difficulty that cabs could be brought with passengers
to the entrance gates. One of the public cabriolets was
blown over, and the driver pitched headforemost into the
road, but he escaped with slight injury ; the passengers,
However, were not quite so fortunate, as they were much
shaken, and one gentleman received a compound fracture
of the left clavicle.

It would be impossil le to give a tithe of the minor acci-
dents arising in all parts of the metropolis from the fury
of the storm.

In Brunswick-road, Camberwell, a number of second-
rate houses have been recently erected; the outbuildings
are covered with zinc or lead, and the wind, getting under
the metal, forced it off the roofs, and notwithstanding its
great weight, it was driven through the air a distance of
thirty yards, when it fell upon a small cottage, the pro.
perty of Mr. Wyatt, and forced in the roof, severely
injuring a young girl name,l Hannah Godsall, who was
also obliged to be removed to the hospital.

Among other damages occasioned by the gale a largo
new building at Mr. Spurgeon's Orphanage, Stockwell,
built by voluntary subscriptions, and which had cost £6OO,
was totally demolished, the materials alone remaining.

At the Crystal Palace the damage was but slight, and
confined almost entirely to the fiat roof over the Eyptian
Court.

The hurricane was felt with some severity among the
shipping at Woolwich. A coal brig, laden, was working
her way up the river, and when off the dockyard she wa3
struck amidships by a light vessel, and went down, and
now lies in about four fathoms of water on the North
Woolwich shore.

In the neighbourhood of Windsor the gale blew down
;Juildings and tore up by the roots many fine oaks, elms,
and beech trees in the Forest and the Home Park. The
tele,graph wires being destroyed, the messages have to be
sent part of the way by train. So great and destructive a
hurricane has not being witnessed in the neighbourhood of
Windsor for many years past.

In the port and harbour of Chatham every precaution
was taken on board the vessels of war and other ships to
enable them to ride out the gale at their anchorage. In
the river two barges, both deeply laden, foundered, the
whole of the crew fortunately escaping. The damage oc-
casioned by the gale has been of a serious character, and
numerous casualties are reported. During the height
the hurricane the wind blew down a considerable
portion of the lofty boundary wall at the Chatham Con-
vict Prison, St. Alary's,'at the part adjoining the Royal En.
gineerstore-yard, making complete breach of about 300 ft.
in length in that structure. The wind at the same time
caught a portion:of the wall at the Royal Marine Barracks,
adjoining the dockyard, which it blew down. At Brompton
a thick stack of chimneys was blown down, carrying away
in its fall a portion of two buildings, the inmates escaping
injury in an almost miraculous manner. At the time the
gale was raging with the greatest fury the wind caught
the roofing of No. 7 building slip in Chatham dockyard,
the thick zinc covering of which, for a considerable extent,
being twisted up and carried away like so much paper. In
consequence of the high sea running at Sheerness, no boats
were allowed to leave any of the ships for the shore
during the day.

In Liverpool the storm was probably of unprecedented
severity. It has certainly not been equalled during this
generation. Here and there chimney-pots and slates
strewed the streets, and occasionally a whole stack was
thrown over. At 11, Harrington-street (Messrs. Swindon
and Hodges, law-stationers) the chimney-stack was blown
over, and falling through, the rubbish severely injured
two young men, named Hodges and Gill, apprentices, and
made a complete wreck of the room. Gill was dangerously
hurt about the head and was removed to the infirmary.
At the office of Messrs. Satterfield and Fox, Rumford.
place, the chimney was blown over, and falling through
the roof, two clerks and a boy were hurt, one of them
seriously. An unoccupied house near ono of the docks
was unroofed. About eleven o'clock in the forenoon the
entire roof of the large building in Crosshall-street, occu.
pied by Messrs. Rankin and Co., ironfounders, was com-
pletely blown down and carried away by the violence of
the storm. In Grafton-street, Toxteth Park, Samuel
Hough, a coal dealer, was standing in his yard shortly
after noon, when a chimney-pot struck him on the head,
• killing him on the spot. The river throughout the whole
of Saturday presented a scene of wild and exciting
grandeur. So rough was the weather that all except the
Woodside and Seacombe ferry-boats were obliged to cease
running, and even they could not keep time. Her
Majesty's ship Viper, which is anchored off the Prince's
stage, began during th.co.morn}i,nogrtttoincalrtaeglyhsehreanhcal:iorssteaal.d
to drift towards the stage.
and was able to work her way further into the river. A
schooner was reported on the West Hoyle Bank ; crew
saved by the Point of Ayr Lifeboat.

11Ir. A. S. Finlay, M.P. for Argyllshire, has
issued an address announcing his intention of resigning his
seat. The Scotsman states that the Marquis of Lorne will
be the Liberal candidate.