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London, England, 1827-03-15 00:00:00

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,CCIDENTE OCCASIONED BY THE 1.4111 t STORM
Thuriday the Pert Office runner betwees Whitburn
and. Wilsnntown wits round' ita ttp,right. in the
snow, with the post bag in.his hand, and quite dead. .
Sunday a boy, travelling frontldinburgh to. Hera
wick, applied for lodgings at Cockburnspath, be: having.
no money was refused. He was found a lifeless corpse
on Monday at a short distance from the:village. •
Tuesday a man was found dead near the fout-mile
stone on the road from D.illatosid to Windkates, itt
Fife. supposed to have peri,hed dining' the violence of
the storm the preceding night.
A boy was (blind dead in the snow on Thursday neat
Burntisland. It has been ascertained that be belonged
to Patbheachwhieh plate he-had left the previous evens
ing, and had perished from the inclehiency of the storm.
Monday the body of a man was cast ashore at Tyrie,
'near Kit kaldy. It was ascertained to be that of one of
the fishermen who were lost in a herring fishing boat
near that place, during the gale on the 17th ult. avid
information was eonveysd to his relations at Ste Mona
ance, to which place the boat belonged.
Friday two young men, seamen, belonging to Ores-
tonpans, went off from theote itt a bran to, dredge a
few oysters, when the boat unfottunately upset, and
both were drowned. The'bOit has romt on shore, but
none of tire bodies had been got.
DLIMFRIPS, *mien ilk
Daring the dreadful days of Saturday the Sd, and
Thursday the Bth torrent, many shepherds made most •
'hair-breadth escapes, while fearlessly braving every
villager in collecting their flocks from the Weather side of
the hills. In the extensive tract of country stretching
'around•Sanquhar and Leadhills, the storm raged with
dreadfdl violence ; and one poor fellow, of the name of
James Bryden, was found dead at Todholes, parith of
Kirkcoisnel, within tOO yards of his own doot. He pea
risked on the Saturday, and his body Was not found till
late the following day. With the exception of-the print
of one Of his shoes, the deceased was completely im-
mersed in snow, and his-fltithful dog -was (mind lying
under his right arm. The affectionate animal had suf.
feted dreadfully, but weak and almost dying as it wits, it
evinced an unwillingness to be separated from its master. •
Bryden was much respected, and has left a widow and
two children. Another shepherd of the name of David
Dickson, .servant to' Mr. M'Cell of though
amissing on Saturday, was not found till the following
morning. .He had fallen down from cold and exhaustion,
and though immediately carried to the nearest hrture,
warmed and fed, it was long before he could tell what
had befallen him. A third shepherd, though very
nearly frozen to death, was found standing in an erect
pasture, but deprived alike of consciousness and feeling.
At Minnock, half-way betwixt Sanquhat and Wanloek-
head, a man was found dead by the way side. His
name is not known, but lie came from Paisley, and
travelled as a mendi:anr. David Caldew, labourer, Cald-
beck, who had been working at the roads, endeavoured
to get home on the fatal Sd of March ; but he was over-
taken by the storm, and sank to rise tin more,before he had
travelled many miles. He has left a wife and six chi!.
drem On the same awful day, Mr. James Brown, a
most extensive and respectable shoemaker in Maar-
flock, 'and who has many relatives in this !limner,
perished, while endeavouring to return home. A woman,
whose name we have not learnt.. but who was house-
keeper to Mr. Muir, schools miter, Muirkitk, dropped
down dead while looking at the men who were cutting
the snow. Hannay Harkness, wife of Thomas Hark-
ness, residing near Heathwood, perished on the 4d, on
Corrie Common, and at no great distance Horn her
own house. She had keen at Waterbeck, and her body
Was not discovered till the Monday following. In the
eimese of Sabbath one of her sons passed and repassed
the spot. where
,she lay, but the vital spark had pre-
viously fled, and from the depth of the snow, no part
of her body was visible. Two women, it is said, *ere
dug out of a wreath near Kelhead toll-bar, and there
is a report of a woman having fallen a victim to the
storm between Annan and Lofkerby.
Tne drift on Thursday was so violent. that it was
mid-day before the iiihabitants of Sanquhar could yen•
cure to cross the threshold; even where they were in want
of the necessaries of life. - Of some houses oily the
chimney tops were visible. The coach from Dumfries
to Glasgow, stuck fast on Saturday week near Auchen-
leck. The guard had to sit inside all night guarding
lase luggage, and the passengers, eight ur number, were .
~quartered in Mr. Templeton's.
Two or three farmers in the parish of Girthon, will
suffer considp ably fr om the loss of sheep. Around Mr.
Murray's park. wall, the snow tries from six to seven •
feet deep; but a complete canal has.been cut thiough it,
so that carts end carriages may now pass. Mr. Brown,
and three commercial Gentlemen, after being detained'
several days in Dumfries, were again storm-stayed at
Castle Douglas: They arrived on Friday-on foot ter-:
ribly fatigued, having had to traverse huge wreaths at
almost every step of their way. •.
This day-week, fifty-three sheep were found buried and
smothered on the comparatively well-sheltered farm of
Holestain. The poor animals had been dead for boort,'
and their carcases were sold at 4s. a head. Nearer
thome,

at Tinwald, Tortholwald, and Kirkmahoef se•
veral sheep perished, though by far the greater numbei .
were rescued alive. At the former place, a whole flout •
were engulphed in one huge wreath ; but the cups, from .-
*lir superior strength and agility, boxed their way into
'pest day, and then stood bleating at the side of the
-Wreath, as if in. commiseration of those who were still
in the grave they had just escaped from. The shepherds
understood and obeyed the signal, and by dint of -bard
labour saved the remainder of their master's flack. In
the cout se of their search, they actuAlly dug out one or
• more smothered hares 1
The woods have suffered terribly from the snow,
from what fell on the 3d current. On that disastrous
like glue to the tops and branches of the trees, and
fast, that many firs snaprasunder, though twice as t
a man's thigh. Even the oaks have to mourn the
limb, and altogether so much damage has been done to
dons, that the wood-forester will have the melancholy s
mpg notes with tbe.store farmer. Our old friendohe i
sweet chesnut at Carnsalloch—is no longer what it wa
arms which sprung from one vast trunk, only two
though each was individually a prodigious tree.
one of; these became top-heavy, reeled, bent, and then
Crating in its fall one of its brethren, beside which it In
in the peaceful sociality of vegetable life, for the great(
centuries. We regret this disaster very muck; to
tree was a venerable relic of ages gone by, And we
look on its.like again. The shrubberies have suffered
the woods. Beautiful arbutules, rhododendrons, 1,
ealuable roses budded on itipes, and which- were aunt
with a hundred-floirets,..rnali never. beer • a • lower mo,
in some phces the selsolechas of American plants will
afad.linkwp years may elapse before the wide,
limeades is repaired, occasioned by winter 111117.-.-.Donsfrier

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to loss of many a
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Fared as much as
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