The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-01-11 00:00:00

WAVERTHEE,

A chimney of the house of Mr. Swinden, surgeon, fell
down, and the servant narrowly escaped with her life. She
was much hurt. In Beckett's-terrace the lead was stripped
from the roof and, hung in shreds. A glass dome was blown
from the top of the range into a field, a distance of between
two hundred and three hundred yards ! Mr. Davies, seeds-
man, sustained much injury in his nurseries. A quantity of
glass in his green-house was destroyed. At Mr. Fulfours,
near the Wesleyan Chapel, a stack of chimneys fell on the
roof and penetrated to the weight of two or three tons into
the bedroom in whice he and his lady slept, a portion falling
on the bed, but without materially injuring them. He got
.up and went down into the kitchen, about three o'clock, and
he scarcely reached it when the window, crowded with flower-
pots on shelves, was entirely blown in and fell near them,
yet without breaking a single pane. Had any persons been
at that side of the apartment they would have been most
seriously injured, if not killed.
About 20 yards of Mr. Buller's garden wall was blown
down. The Wavertree Tavern was stripped of its lead and
many of the slates. The chimney of Mr. Thomas, a bread
baker, and which was eight yards in height, was blown down
and fell upon the cottage of a labouring man named Boyle.
Had it been a yard larger, he and his wife and two children
would have been killed. The roof floors were broken in.

The wall fronting Mr. Graham's garden, though but low
and massy stone, was blown down.
Many trees were torn up by the roots. The church was
damaged both in roof and in windows—as was the methodist
chapel.

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The houses of Mr. Manifold and Mr. Frankland, in Lance-
lane, were stripped of great part of their roofs, and much
glass was broken.
The windmill was in danger of taking fire from the friction
on the break ; but was saved through assistance being pro-
cured from the village.
Peck's Hill mill (also a wooden structure) took fire from
the friction, and was burned down. At the ltev. Mr. Slea's,
-of the Elms, a quantity of fine trees were blown down.
There was a great loss of hay in the neighbourhood, and
persons were gathering it in the fields and lanes.
A stack of chimneys fell through the roof of Mr. Whit-
tingham's house, and stones of a large size were precipitated
upon the bed in which he lay. Two of them, that lodged on
the tester of the bed, were of great weight; but he was not
injured.
At the house of Mr. Leonard Sheil, Olive Mount, the
chimney fell through the roof into a small room in which
were Mrs. S. then in child-bed, three other females and a
child. One of the females was much injured—the mother of
Mrs. Shell. The room was so blocked up with the fallen
materials that they were all got out through a broken part of
the window. The house is in a shattered condition through-
out.

In Edge-lane, Mr. Jackson's rope-walk sustained much
damage. About ISO yards of a new shed was blown down,
and about 40 of an old one. Roofs• were also blown off, and
sixteen men, employed on night-work, barely escaped de-
struction. Of Mr. G. Robinson's rope-walk, about SO yards
were blown down. _ _

The waifs of Mr. Seddon's garden, to a large extent, were
bloWn down. In the same line, a new Elizabethian-built
cottage suffered severely, and two chimneys were blown
down.