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

LANCASTER.

The storm extended to this town, though, apparently, its
force was not quite equal to what was experienced in the
southern part of the county. Several factories and private
houses were inure or less damaged, and three of the well-
known elm trees on Castle Hill were blown down. We hear
little of the storm to the northward of this place, except that
the mail was twice blown over on Shap Fells; and the guard,
finding it impossible to proceed with the coach, was obliged
to put the bags in a cart, in which he proceeded Until he was
able to procure a post chaise.

TODMORDEN, HALIFAX. &c.
The fury of the storm was very great in the vale of Tod-
morden, where two mills, one in Dulesgate, belonging to a
Mr. Hammerton, and another belonging to a Mr. Hinchliffe,
near Mytholm Bridge, were entirely blown down; as was
also a chimney at the Mill of Mr. Frith, of Todmorden;' but
we do not hear that any lives were lost. In the neighbour-
hood of Bipponden, two chimneys were blown down—viz.,
those of Mr. J. Whiteley and Mr. H. Bitins, the latter of
which fell upon the factory, and did very great damage to
the building and machinery.—ln Halifax, the house of a
man named Jennings, a cabinet-maker, situate in Pellon-
lane, was entirely blown down; and the poor man, with his
wife and child, buried in the ruins, and killed on the spot.
A severe accident also happened to Lewis Alexander, Esq.,
the well-known solicitor, of Halifax, who was at breakfast
when one of the chimneys of his house fell upon and severely
injured him. We are glad to learn, however, that he is con-
sidered out of danger.—We learn, also, that at Leeds and
Hull the storm was exceedingly destructive; but we have not
heard any particulars of the damage done, except that many
vessels had been lost in the neighbourhood of Hull.

CHESTER.
(Fran the Chester Courant qf Tuesday.)
It is our painful duty to reCorda most violent storm, which
was experienced in this city, on the night of Sunday last,
commencing about eleven o'clock, and continuing without
intermission until day-break. The damage done to dwelling-
houses and other buildings is very considerable; -many were
Unroofed, several.chimnies were blown down, and in some
instances were precipitated into the room immediately under.
The falling of slates and bricks, rendered it exceedingly dan-
gerous for any one to be out. Families fled from their beds,
and took refuge in the lower rooms during the night—alarm
was universal; but-it affords us the highest gratification to
state that no persons to our knowledge have lost their lives,
nor have any received very material injury.
If for a moment we reflect upon the many providential
and hair-breadth escapes of several of our fellow-citizens, we
shall find much cause to, be thankful to a kind and merciful
Providence, whose protecting aid has been so conspicuously
manifested during the continuance of this awful visitation.
The following are a few of the casualties which we have been
enabled to procure:—
As might have been expected, those buildings which, from
their height and situation, were most exposed to the fury of
the winds, have suffered the greatest injury. In the main
streets, as Bridge-street, Northgate-street, Eastgate-street,
and atergate-street, comparatively little injury has been
sustained. Miss Hunter's house, in Watergate-street, was
partially unroofed, and a great quantity of valuable furniture
destroyed, and Mr. Walker, brewer, was subjected to the
same accident. One of the windows in -Mr. Weaver's boeSe
in Eastgate-street, and one in the Black Dog Coffee-room,
were completely shattered. In Newtown, the roofs of several
houses were partially uncovered, and from the New Church,
which has just been erected at considerable expense,.a vast
number of slates were blown away, and a portion of the pa-
lisading considerably injured, and its whole appearance
was sadly defaced. The roof of the house of Mr. Green, of
the Tower -Wharf, was in a great measure destroyed, and
the adjoining buildings also received considerable damage.
In Abbey-street, the chimney of a house in the occupation
of Mrs. Peers fell in with a tremendous crash, and the lower
part of the house was very materially injured. At Mr.
Boden's, the garden wall was thrown down, and the house
nearly unroofed. At the Castle, several of the windows were
very much shattered, but we have not heard that any further
injury was done to that noble edifice. In Castle-street, with
the exception of Mr. Fish's house, no material damage was
done, beside the removal of a few slates. In Pepper-street,
however, the ruin was much greater. In consequence of the
falling of a very large chimney, trout a house occupied by Mr
Peters, considerable damage was caused. The chimney fell
on the east side, and came in contact with the adjoining alms-
houses, which are chiefly-occupied by old infirm parsons. In
the room of the alms-house next adjoining Mr. Peters', one
of the inmates. a very old woman, was asleep in bed; fortu-
nately, however, she was awoke by the falling of a few bricks,
the first intimation of the impending accident; and she had
scarcely time to make her escape from the room, before the
chimney fell, and with it the ruuf of the apartment where
she had been sleeping. The escape was almost miraculous.
An escape somewhat sinailar, and equally providential, oc-
curred to one of the childi en of the Rev. Charles B. Tayler,
rectorOf St. Peter's. It appeared that the child, who is
about six years of age, was sleeping soundly in bed, uncon-
scious of the danger to which it was so imminently exposed.
The rev. gentleman, however, was on the alert, and having
heard some noise which indicated the falling of a chimney
over the room in which the child Was sleeping, he immedi-
ately hastened thither, and had traly just time to release it
front its perilous situation, before t.he cuimney came tumbling
through the roof, directly over the bed. The child fortu-
nately escaped without receiving any injury, but we under-
stand that_ec portion of the materials fell on the rev. gentle-
man's shoulder, as he was making his exit from the route,
which bruised it rather severely.. Had not the child been
removed at that precise moment, there can be no doubt but
it would have been killed on the spot, as a large portion of
the brick-work alighted on the room u here it was sleeping.
In consequence of the falling of a part of the buttress front
the tower of our venerable cathedral, the south transcept was
much injured, and the timbers burst through, and broken to
pieces. In Eggleston Lane, a large barn and two bays were
levelled with the ground; in the barn was deposited a large
quantity of grain. A building in Northg,ate-street, with two
stacks of hay, belonging to Mr. Brassey, were much dama-
ged; aud.a considerable quantity of hay was carried away
'by the wind. The city gaol was also a good deal damaged.
The parapet, wall, for the space of twenty or thirty yards,
fronting the city walls, wp,s demolished, and the chimney of
a house belonging to Mrs. Wrench, in Lower Bridge-street,
was also blown down, but we have not heard that any luither
damage resulted from it.
The works formerly occupied as a soapery in Grosvenor-
street, the property of Mr. Witter, are very Much injured,
in consequence of the fettling of the large chimney. The
outer wall for several yards' was knocked down, and the inte-
rior of the works was also destroyed. This, we believe, will
be the most extensive and the most costly damage which
has occurred. St. John's Church has also not escaped with-
out considerable injury. The windows of the church are
nearly all shattered; and one of the pinnacles was blown
front the tower. Large stones were also removed from the
Priory.
The houses in Stanley Place also sustained considerable
damage, particularly those of Major Morrall, the Rev. F.
Ayckbowm, and the Rev. W. Hutchinson. The chimneys
of the houses of the two former gentlemen adjoin each other,
and iu the early part of the morning they both fell, carrying
with them the roofs of. the respective houses. One of the
chimneys fell in the room occupied by Mrs. Ayckbowm; but
that lady hearing the signals of danger, happily made her
escape before the roof came in. The other chimney fell into
the room in Mr. Morrall's house, formerly occupied by Miss
Morrall (now the Hon. Mrs. Nugent); but as that lady was
from •hume, nu personal injury was sustained by any one.
• The adjoining house (occupied by the Rev. W. Hutchinson)
sustained similar injury. lm this case the chimney fell into
the room of a servant-maid, who was in bed at the time; but
the materials fortunately proceeded no further than the tester
of the bed. We hear that Mr. Henry, butler to Capt. Ball,
in Stanley-place was very much injured by the falling of
some materials.
In the Hope-pole garden a very large pear-tree was com-
pletely cut off at the root, and St. Martin's church had many
slates blown off; 'a wall and some small cottages in V, all's-
lane were blown down—houses in Nicholas-street much in-
jured by being unroofed, as also at the lower end of Water-
gate-street; at Mrs. Owen's, Grey-friars, a stack of chitnnies
tell, breaking through the roof into a lodging-room, doing
considerable damage. Dr. Lleylleu Jones' house in King's
buildings, haul all the windows fronting the west entirely
blown out—in King's-street, at Mr. ltitlway's, the workshop
was nearly- unroofed. Messrs. Eaton, brewers, were also
sufferers. Mr. Fletcher's house, Upper Nortugate-street,
has suffered materially; and 11. Kelsall, Esq., has had a vast
quantity of windows broken and blown out, besides other
damage. The two large new houses of the Messrs. Dickson.
at Upton Nursery, wete unroofed, and at Lady Broughton's,
Houle, a very large stack of chimnies fell with a tremendous
crash, broke through the ceiling into her chamber, smashing
and destroying the bed, furniture, &c., but fortunately her
ladyship was not at home. On the Eggleston-road an im-
mense large:oak tree was blown -down, belonging to the Mar-
quis of Westminster. The early hour at. which we have to
go to press does not allow its to give so ample an account of
this tremendous hurricane as we could desire, but our antici-
pations are direful as regards the shipping on our coasts, and
the next week we hope to be enabled to give more infor-
mation.

SINGULAR EFFECTS OF TUE STOLIM. —We understand
that the hedges, trees, and fields in SolOO districts are covered
with a substance having the appearance of white fur, which
is perfectly salt• to the palate. Our informant describes this
appearance to have been observed at least twenty miles from
the sea.

SII EWSBI.7 It Y.
(Front the Salopian Jourual.)
Our town, on Monday morning, was visited by the most
tremendous and disastrous tempest that has occurred within
the memory of the oldest inhabitant. The previous day
(Sunday) was,gloomy, a.fall of snow took. place about noon,
which was ftilluiVoil tevesaL sctoalls of rain and wind.

About eleven at night the storm commenced, and continued
roaring with increased violence from the west and south-west
until eight a.m. on Monday, shaking by its force the strong-
est habitation, and making the stoutest heart tremble. The
destruction of property in and around the town is great in-
deed; and it would .be an almost endless task to detail all the
damage sustained, or to enumerate the many hair-breadth
escapes of lites which several of our townsmen and their fa-
milies experienced from the violence of the tempest, at the
time when tired nature was seeking repose in the arms of
forgetfulness. In fact, there is scarcely a house in the town
but has received more or less injury ; the streets at day-break
were strewed with tiles and other remains of brickwork and
masonry, while the slates from numerous buildings appeared
scattered as paper by the wind in every direction, and the
massive pieces of lead ..which had hound them to the roofs,
were in many places rolled up like a scroll.
About Claremont Hill the effects of the wind were great,
and several houses in that direction have suffered severely.
A chimney belonging to the Rev. It. Astley fell upon an
adjoining tenement, and carried with it about one half of the
roof and• timbers, providentially. however, the life of a little
girl who slept in the room was saved, her. mother (Mrs. Clin-
ton) having removed her to her own room about five minutes
before. At the house of Mr. Walton, situated a short dis-
tance from above, one of the chimneys was also blown down.
At St. Chad's Church pat t of the balustrade above the chancel
was blown down, and some of the painted glass in the windoW
destroyed.

Many of the trees which adorn the beautiful promenade'
called the "Quarry," have sustained much damage; the vio-
lence of the wind has snapped the trunks and upper branches
of several of them, like so many pieces of broken sticks; the
fine group of horse chesnuts "rowing. in "the Dingle," which
have so often charmed the obfierver by their autumnal foliage,
are much disfigured. Some of the houses, &c., near the Cres-
cent have been partially unroofed. "the iron railing which
crowned the chimney (20;) feet high,) under the Wvle,
was blown down, and fell upon a building belonging to Mr.
Lewis Meredith, which it smashed to pieces; a portion of the
massive coping at the top, was also blown through the roof
of a new house adjoining,-and which was also the property of
Mr. Meredith.

The chimney of a house which once formed part of the Grey
Friary, near the bottOm of Wyle Cop, fell into a room occu-
pied by Miss Stirrop, her servant, and a superannuated lady.
The two former were sleeping together; the servant wascrushed
by the mass of brickwork, and died almost immediately; a
beam falling above Miss Stirrop, preserved her from the su-
perinctimbeut weight, by which she was mercifully preserved
from the fate of her servant.

In Colehani, a portion of the building formerly occupied as
a cotton factory, and now divided into several dwellings, lost
some of its chimneys, whish falling through the roof, caused
the greatest consternation among the humble occupants. 'One
of the lights of the beautiful stained glass window recently
presented to Trinity Church, by the Rev. Richard Scott, and
noticed in this journal a few weeks ago, has been blown out,
and the centre one otherwise damaged.
Houses in the middle of the town were not exempt from
the force of the hurricane; hundreds of squares of glass were
destroyed; a stack of chimneys fell through the roof of Mr.
Isaac Taylor's house, in Dogpole, carrying by its force a
great portion of a handsome stone staircase. Nearly oppo-
site, the upper part of a house was blown down, and one half
of the roof of the Post-Office stripped. In Castle-street, a
staircase in the house of Mr. Harries met-with a similar tate
to that above mentioned. The roof of the north porch of St.
Mary's Church has been damaged, and a cross, which ter-
minated the apex of that on the south side, is destroyed, and
the hands of the dial carried away. A chimney of the house
of Mr. Nevett, on Pride-hill, fell on the roof of his next
neighbour, Mr. Davies, gilder, and penetrated into his work-
shop. destroying property, it is said, of £5O value or upwards.
Mr. Webster, of Milk-street. had a providential escape from
a chimney, which fell.upon his bed just after he had quitted.
A chimney belonging to the next house fortunately fell into
the yard. A portion of St. Julian's Church was dismantled,
the glazed clock dial broken, and two of the vanes from the
pinnacles blown off. A large portion of the lead is raised
from the roof of the County Prison, and many fine trees were
uprooted in the vicinity of the town in every direction; and
we regret to say that, in this respect, much damage was done
to the beautiful and valuable property of Dr. Darwin, at the
Mount.

But, as we remarked at the commencement of this narra-
tive, it would be next to impossible to recount all the damage
and destruction of property occasioned by the tempest in this
town and its vicinity. It is, however, somewhat satisfactory
to know that, by the merciful interposition of Divine Provi-
dence, only one life has fallen a sacrifice to its severity ; a
circumstance, it cannot be doubted, but will be duly regarded
by sincere and heartfelt thanks to the Great Governor of the
nivers e, by every one who happened to be placed in pecu-
liar situations of danger.
In the afternoon of Monday an inquest was held before
Mr. Robert Jones, coroner for this borough, on Edith Jones,
aged 16, the young woman whose unfortunate death is above
alluded to. From the evidence of William Morgan, it ap-
peared that he went to the house ofilliss Stirrop at the request
of Mr. Stant, builder, and finding the back and front en-
trances locked, he burst one of them open, and requested
Mrs. Millington, a neighbour, to go up stairs to the bed-
room, the door of which was also fastened; vu forcing it
open, the deceased and Miss Stirrop were in a bed covered
with rubbish and bricks from an adjoining chimney, which
bad fallen through the roof upon them. Immediately assist-
ance was procured, and the rubbish being cleared away,
Miss Stirrup was found alive; but Edith Jones was quite
dead. This witness stated that he believed the chimney
which had fallen was in a good state of repair. Mrs. Mil-

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lington gave similar evidence, having bees attracted to the
house by the inmates not being up as usual. The servant
was not in her usual room. She heard Miss Bromfield,
aged 90, call out about six o'clock in the morning, but as this
was her frequent practice until she got up, she took no no-
tice of the matter until between eight and nine o'clock in
the morning. Verdict, Died of suffocation, caused by a
chimney haying accidentally fallen upon the deceased,
whilst she was in bed.

A magnificent old oak, on the lawn at Longner Hall, the
seat of Robert Burton, Esq., which has long been the ad-
miration of all beholders for its picturesque beauty, fell a
sacrifice to the storm; and a vast number of trees in the
vicinity of the house were likewise prostrated or otherwise
seriously injured by its devestating effects.
At Hawkstone, the seat of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., about
1100 trees were blown down, among which were several very
fine elms. The obelisk in Acton Reynold Park, twenty-two

feet in height, and weighing at least seven tons, was smashed
to atoms; many trees also in the centre of Shrewsbuty park,
the property of Sir Andrew Corbet, Bart., have been up-
rooted, as well as some of the finest trees along the drive
leading to Berwick House, the seat of the Hon. H. W.
Powys. In short, there is scarcely a landed proprietor or
farmer in the vicinity who has not been a sufferer, more or
less, by the destruction of trees, injury of stacks, &c., by the
violence of the hurricane.