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

THE LATE GALE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday. )
THE HURRICANE OF MONDAY.—It has been our painful
duty, on many occasions, to lay before our readers the details
of exceedingly calamitous visitations, arising from the vio-
lence of the elements; but we have certainly never had to
record one so wide in its extent, or so destructive in its con-
sequences, as the hurricane which visited this county, and,
we fear, many other districts, with respect to which no infor-
mation has yet reached us, early on Monday morning last,
and which, we believe, exceeded in violence any storm that
has occurred for many years,—perhaps in the life of any per-
son now i❑ existence. _ .

As this tremendous visitation commenced in the dead of
night, very little is generally known of the appearances by
which it was immediately preceded; but we have reason to
think that the ordinary indications of a coming storm, though
not entirely absent, were less marked than usual. The pre-
ceding day (Sunday) was frosty in the morning, with a slight
fall of snow; but the trust disappeared before noon, and dur-
ing the afternoon and evening there were occasional showers
of rain, the wind being gentle, and tolerably steady, from the
S.S.E., without any appearance of the rack or scud which is
the almost invariable precursor of a severe storm. 'What is
remarkable is, that, up to eight o'clock in the .evening, there
was no striking depression of the barometer, which had stood
during the day about the changeable point; but some time
after night, we believe' the depression becamb so rapid as to
attract the attention of several parties whom we have seen,
the mercury having descended more than half an inch be-
tween nine and twelve. Soon after twelve o'clock, the wind
began to freshen very rapidly, veering about from S.E. to
S.W., and blowing in gusts, which rapidly increased in vio-
lence until about half-past two, when it blew a most violent
gale, and its effects began to be apparent in the falling of
chimneys, and the unroofing of houses. A little after three,
it somewhat abated, and many persons flattered themselves
that its extreme violence had passed away. This hope, how•
ever, was vain; for, about four, the storm again began to
rage, and, from that time until about half-past seven, it re-
sembled one of those awful atmospheric convulsions, which
are the scourge of tropical climates, rather than one of the
storms of a northern latitude; the wind blowing in furious
gusts of a few minutes' duration, with short intervals of com-
parative calm, that made the gusts appear even more terri-
ble. During the greater part of the time, the sky, instead
of being dark: and scowling, as it usually is under such cir-
cumstances, was generally clear, and he moon shone brightly
out, as if in mockery of the awful scene beneath.
From what we can learn from the concurring statements
of parties who had good opportunities fur observation, and
From the time at which the mist extensive mischief was donsi,
the greatest fury of the storm must have been experienced
from about half-past five to half-past six in the morning, when
it seemed, to those who heard it in exposed situations, as it

nothing of the work of man could resist its ; and we be'
lieve the general feeling of such parties will be an emotion
of surprise, not, that so much mischief should have been done,
but that so much property should have escaped with little or
no injury.
That this storm greatly exceeded in violence any that has
visited this district for very many years, we are disposed to
infer, not from the injuries done to buildings of various kinds,
numerous and frightful as they are, so much as from the im-
mense number of trees prostrated in all parts of the neigh-
bourhood. The buildings erected at different periods vary
so much in their strength and stability, that arty comparison
of the effects produced on them by different storms is very
uncertain; but the works of nature are uniform; and when
we find, what we believe is strictly the case, ;hat the number
of trees prostrated by the recent storm exceeds ninny times
over that of any former visitation of the kind that can be re-
collected in this neighbourhood, we cannot resist the infer-
ence• that this has been more violent than any which pre-
ceded it. The only ones with which we have heard it com-
pared are, one in January, 1802, and the great storm of the
sth December, 1822 (when the cross was blown fi om the spire
of St. Mary's church) : neither of which was certainly at
all comparable to the one of Monday in respect to the number
of trees destroyed, which may he counted through the neigh-
bourhood, not by ones and twos, but by scores and hundreds.
We understand that in Heaton Park alone, more than 150
have been blown down and upwards of 170 others have been
mutilated and disfigured by large limbs having been torn from
them. Nor is this at all a solitary instance of destruction.
In Flixton and Urmston, the destrnction of trees has been
immense. On the farm belonging to G. L. Ridehalgh, Esq.
in Flixton and Urmston, mote than 20 have been blown
down or broken; on the lands of William Stephenson, Esq.
of Urmston, a still larger number; and throughout the neigh-
bourhood in the like proportion. Indeed, so completely was
Flixton Lane blocked up by fallen timber, that none of the
farmel s could make their way to Manchester with their milk-
carts. About Worsley, and also at Al iddleton and Hopwood,
a great number of large trees have suffered ; and, indeed,
generally, throughout the the neighbourhood, the destruction
of timber has been to a most unprecedented extent.
One very remarkable fact attending the recent storm has
been the extent to which objects exposed to the violence of
the wind have been covered with saline incrustations, no_
doubt produced by spray brought from the sea by the vio-
lence of the storm. Windows, the branches of trees, and
many other objects, have been so completely encrusted with
salt, as in many cases to appear as if covered with boar frost,
so as to attract the notice of the most careless observers:
We have now lying berme us about a quarter of an ounce of
salt, which was collected in a few minutes, by means of a
sponge, by G. L. Ridehalgh, Esq. from trees in the neigh-
bourhood of ',listen, and a number of branches, exhibiting
small incrustations in the most palpable manner, have been
brought to us from different quarters. We understand that
this appearance is not confined to this neighbourhood, but
appears in Saddleworth, and other places to the eastward;
and it would be a matter of some curiosity to determine how
far it has extended in that direction, and, especially, whether
it has been observed beyond the chain of the Yorkshire hills:

There is another circumstance worth mentioning; as showing
the violence of the slot m. Many persons in Pendleton, and
other parts of the neighbourhood, have been struck with the
appearance of flakes and filaments of cotton sticking upon
the trees and hedges, for which they could not account. We
understand that s►milar appearances are found in various
parts of the country between here and Liverpool; and there
►s every reason to believe that the cotton came from the large
cotton factory at Liverpool.
After these preliminary remarks, we shall proceed to lay
before our readers such particulars of the damage done in
this neighbourhood as have come to our knowledge, which,
though very far from being complete, will be found to be
exceedingly extensive. We feel pleasure, however, in sta-
ting, that the loss of life, though serous, is not so serious as
might have been expected under all the circumstances.

MANC H ESTER.
I❑ the township of Manchester there has been much lass

-damage than the outskirts, and less shelteied parts of the
town. We have noticed below, under separate heads, some
of the disasters occurring in the lines of the principal tho-
roughfares of the town, and the roads leading to it. Besides
the fatal consequences to four persons in the immediate
neighbourhood, elsewhere noticed, and to two others at Sta-
lybridge, we have heard of several other personal casualties
of a less serious character, and have no doubt that the list of
these might be very considerably increased. In Liverpool
Road, near the end of John-street, a long sign was blown
down from the house-front of Mr. White, the Railway Inn,
and it struck a man who was walking past so severe a blow
on the shoulder, as to drive him several yards into the car-
riage-way, where he fell upon his hands and knees. He im-
mediately sprang up and ran forward several yards, as if
apprehending further danger, before he looked round to as-
certain the cause of his fall. The poor fellow's aim was
broken, and he is now lying at the•lntirmary.;- we believe
doing well. About nine o'clock in the morning, a chimney

of the house of Mr. Sewell, Water-street, was blown over
the roof of the house of Mr. Goadsby, druggist, bottom of
Bridge-street, and part of it struck a man on the foot-path,
and knocked him down, bruising and wounding him severely
about the head. He was taken into Mr. Goadsby's shop, and
thence to the surgery of Mr. Owen, Bridge-street, where he
was attended. We have not yet learned whether he had re-
ceived a fracture of the skull, but understand that he was
much relieved after vomiting a quantity of extravasated
blood, and was then able to request that he might be conveyed
home, to York-street, Huhne. We have not heard in what
state he has been since. At the loth 'nary, there have been
many slight cases of persons injured by the falling of bricks,
slates, &c.; but the only two cases there, of a sufficiently se-
rious nature to constitute the parties in-patients, were that
of the man whose arm was broken by the sign in Liverpool
Road, and another man, whose leg was broken- by the fall of
the chimney at the cotton mill of Messrs.,Thomas Harrison
and Son, Stalybridge, which accident is somewhere else no-
ticed. About eight o'clock in the morning, the centres for •
the Victoria Bridge, across the Irwell from Manchester to
Salford, ou the site of the Old Bridge, were blown over into
the river, and one of the workmen, named Jones, who was
standing between two of them, had a narrow escape, suffering
'only a severe squeezing.
STRANGEWAYS.—Part of the roof of the premises of Mrs.
Mary Bealey and Son, bleachers, near the Flying Horse
Inn, Hunt's Bank, was torn off by the wind. A chimney
was blown down and through the roof of a small two-story
house, between Boundary-street and the druggist's shop at
the corner of Bridge-street and Ducie-street. The house is
occupied by a greengrocer and his wife named Weaver ;
and a man named Jackson, a relative, who lives with them,
being a good deal alarmed, arose shortly before seven o'clock,
and had only just left the bed, iu one corner of the room,
when the chimney fell through, bringing a great portion of
the roof along with it, and covered with a great mass of
bricks and rubbish the bed and that part of the room. Wea-
ver and his wife were in bed at the time in another corner of
die room, and fortunately escaped without any personal in-
jury, though a good deal frightened. The falling bricks and
roof broke down parts of the staircase down to the next
room. A chimney, in part of the erections at the Man-
chester workhouse, was blown down, forcing in part of the
roof, but not doing any serious mischief or personal injury.
In various places, the spray of the river lrwell was caught
by the wind, and carried to a great height, and to a con-
siderabledistance from the banks.

THE NEW Luny ROAD AND BnotiGuToN.—All the way
up this road, from Strangeways to Broughton, the fences were
blown down, quantities of slates blown from the roots, and
many panes in those windows which front the west blown in
by the fury of the gale. Amongst others the front window of
the house of Mr. Lodge, the Grove Inn, Broughton, which,
we understand, had not received any injury in the various
high winds experienced during the last five or six years, were
in some cases perforated, as if with shot; in others nearly the
whole of the mines were forced inwards. In Broughton Lane,
the house of Mr. Jeremiah Garnett was completely unroofed,
scarcely a slate being left in its place.—The house of the Rev.
J. It. Beard, Great Cheethatu-street, Higher Broughton, was
also much damaged by numbers of slates being torn off the
roof, &c.—Many of the houses in Wilton Place and Tivuli
Place were similarly injured, the slates being in most instan-
ces carried quite across the gardens in front of them, and the
road, to the footpath on the opposite side.—ln the pile of
buildings a little higher up the road, called Arthur's Terrace,
three stacks of chimneys were blown down, at the back part
of the houses, and falling through the roofs, they did much
damage in the upper floors.—The end wall at the back of
these houses was also blown down. The next pile.uf houses,
erected by Mr. J. S. Stubbs, being more substantially built,
escaped with less damage; but the fury of the storm had rip-
ped the lead off the roofs, torn off many of the slates, and
hurled them over the gardens and the road to the opposite
footpath.—Similar effects were visible at Mount Broughton.
and at the house of Mr. Armstrong, at the corner of Broin-
Lane, which had a large piece of the roof blown in.—The
road was in many places strewed with the large arms, as well
as the smaller boughs and branches of trees, which had been
snapped off by the gale.—Off the house belonging to Richard
Potter, Esq., 111. P., now occupied by Mr. William Crossley,
the chimney of the coach-house was blown down, and fell
through the roof of the hay-loft.—The lane just above, lead-
ing to Broughton Park, was covered in many places with
large boughs of trees; and two oaks which stood behind the
house of 'J r. Slater were torn up by the roots. We took op
several of the branches in this lane, and found them all co-
vered-on one side with what appeared to be rime, or hoarfrost,
but which the taste proved to be a thick encrustation of soil-
-All the damage above described, as the result of the storni,
is comparatively insignificant, when contrasted with the et'
fects of the gale at the house of Mr. Joseph Peel, at the top
of the lane last mentioned, but on the north side of the lane
leading to Singleton brook. The house stands on a little emi-
nence, and seems to have been a mark for the fury of the gale.
—About half-past six O'clock, a stack of chimneys, in the
front pint of the roof, facing the west, were blown 'down, ac-
Wally falling towards the wind. The chimney was coverei
• with mastic or cement; and this, with the cohesive quality °
the mortar, seems to have held together, in one mass, tbe
greater part of the brickwork that fell. It forced its waY,
through the roof, into the chamber which the servants had
quitted,—one of them only to meet the fate she sought t°
shun,—and part of it struck and broke away a portion of tne
foot of the bedln which they had slept. The falling mao,
consisting of probably two yards of the chimney, burst throng,ll
the floor of this room into the one beneath, which was occ°'
pied as a bedroom by the governess, who had shortly before
quitted it; but the nurse, wishing to give her assistance be,-
low stairs, under the painful circumstances above narrated'
had just before brought into this room one of the children., '1
little boy between three and four years of age, and placed tiittt
iu one bed, and in another bed in the-same chamber were ti
older children. The falling chimney struck a part or the bed
in which the little boy was lying, and by some means double„
or crushed it together, so as to press his legs between WI,"
bedding, upon which a quantity of bricks fell. The but
of the' chimney forced its way through the floor and throub,,
the ceiling of the hall below; the mass remaining, in a Per;
pendicular position, in the governess's room. Th;ther th
man-servant hastened, accompanied by Mr. George Ashld'
and one of his labourers; and on their calling him by naio
the child answered, " I'm here. Please to get me ont'a
At first, notwithstanding his voice, they were unable to lit
him; hot at length he was discovered and extricated. P.
had been so effectually preserved by the bedding, &c., that ba:
had sustained no greater injury than a bruise on the hew
occasioned by some rubbish striking him while being ext,,r,
cated. The chimney had not fallen near the bed where t''h
other children were lying, and they were removed, ITOCt,
alarmed, but unhurt. Other damage was done to the 01,
buildings; the roof of the stabling was sttipt of its lea '
many of the trees and shrubs were also seriously injure‘l:,
their boughs broken, &e., and altogether the loss will he en
siderable. At a newly erected house of Mr. Edward Slia
cross's, near Kersal Moor, two chimneys were blown d"lj
and, forcing their way through the roof and attic floors,
damage to the extent of probably not less than £2OO.
EsTwicti.—Some damage was done to the roof, and !lel,
veral panes of glass blown in, at the house of Mr. Johlt !%'
ton. 'I he mischief was inconsiderable ; and we
on mention.o
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chiefly in order to show that the repot t, which was current
some quarters Monday, that a servant or other inmate 0
the house had been killed, was without foundation. Fr°,4 ,
our inquiries on this road, we are satisfied that this has beg,
the most devastating wind-storm ever known in that neig
bourhood and direction. ,
CHEETH A IO HILL AND ROAD.—The Cheetham Hill
like most others in the neighbourhood, exhibits various str,s •
ing indications of the fury of the tempest. The roof of is
Wesleyan Association Chapel, near the first mile stone,se,
n.uch damaged, the wind having blown' portions of it in• be. •
vend of the windows, too, are much injured, many Penes„ed.
log blown in; about Stocks several houses are mitch datilles•
It the house of Mrs. Parker, jun., a little beyond Sffle
Lane, a chimney was blown down, and fell on the r
which, however,.it did not break through; but, when we A
it, the chimney was resting thereon, in an entire state.
chimney- in the house of Mr. Boardman, in Smedley 1,11.0 f
fell in a similar way, and with like results. In
the house of Mr. Wright, a little higher up the road. I`,l.rica ,
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of six windows were blown in. At Green Hill, the resio
of Edward Lloyd, Esq.,bl giro
the banker,- a chimney was nrbe
down, and, falling' through the roof, did some datnao

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; !le les Itilleobtv r'l damaged, by proportions, being driven in, and
upped u , some of the lead upon the turret was also
) ton pole,•Several windows were blown in of houses at Wil-
i. Vdrjous°n, Lime Field Terrace and other localities in
blo • other higher parts of the roa'd. Many, chimneys were
. wn doe,
{ the roe, um (one of Mr. George Faulkner's, passing throne)
jora, ;it we believe,) and the windows broken and roofs in-
t „)_e_i! t re exceedingly numerous. We have heard of no per-
ritltitirt.tiry being experienced in this direction.
addition'Es PlatTerec.—ElGHT HOUSES DESTROYED.—ID
ruill to numerous comparatively slight disasters, such as
ihu'_,ll being stripped of the lead, and windows being broken
dioll.t.Lisle nerous houses, we regret to state, that eight cottage
.7usgi Rider Row, between Great Ancoats street and St.
ket, s Road, have been completely destroyed.
ROAD.—About four o'clock in the morning, the
le.hisiiillnenyo. a house occupied • on dealer by Mr. Robert Brookes, pro-
two hedii. m Oldham Road, fell in through the roof upon
m but those who had been in them had, fortunately,
l'isen wind a short time before, being alarmed at the noise of the
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jug, theh°' t twenty minutes past six o'clock in the morn-
ter, No cmney of a house occupied by Mr. John Bennis-
it tell • 121: Oldham Road, fell in through the roof, part of
1}4141.11g on the bed iu which Mr. and Mrs. Bannister were
e we the chiorg r. and Mrs. Bn-
tnhi setierri'
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bed,ight cif
the floor, andmne aly lf incin to the kitchen, withoaut
• nuvered°7ing anything of their descent; and they only (its-
wards, . .t
when Mr. Bannister got up, immediately after-
in,. e . lantending to go into an adjoining room and, ou open-
witiis7n t he thought was the chamber door, h'e found that it
ter
wacicsu,Pboard in the kitchen. Neither he nor Mrs. Bennis-
wink' ,nrurt.—About half-past seen o'clock in the morning,
pying'ith • James Whitehead, his wife, and two sons, occit-
reakfa e house, No. 125, Oldham Road, were about to get
thestm being all in the kitchen, the chimney fell through
keoptuf upon the chamber floor, and through it into the
and ,7.n ; part of the rubbish knocking Mrs. Whitehead down
en u'eaking the chair upon which one of her sons was sit-
g. Wh
their LU Mr. Whitehead and his sons recovered from
he... surprise, one of them inquired where his mother was,
opionif.cluite unaware
that he was at that moment standiug
to „e„! slate that covered her. They immediately proceeded
le,h7lijh for her, and soon found her quite covered with rub-
and ih al 4 large slate had so fallen as to shelter her head
in °thee uliPer part of her body, and the rubbish was se placed
her hau r,' ur respects that she was not seriously ht, except about
ANco .
or the 4.l.B*—About six o'clock in the morning, the I•lninney
oldh house occupied by Mr. Thorburn, draper, Dale-street,
dwet?l'streel, was blown down, and being a long one for a
whiehneg.'house, it forced in the roofs of two rooms, in one of
' a bed, was a bed, in which were two females, and in the other
the bele" Which were two young men. The rubbish fell upon
serio„ In both rooms, and one of the young women was
with ""Y hurt; but the other and the young men escaped
some bruises.
Infi° Dots ROAD AND ARDWICK. —At the Manchester Royal
'arsearYm several parts of the roof were much damaged. One
e.. Portion of the lead from the roof over the pediment
whsiiesttrktmea
t o nearly off, being attached, however, by one end,
poem e other was driven with such force against the trans-.
dine, glass dial of the clock (which is illuminated by gas
for th: tun 'kik hours) as to break it to pieces. This dial,
figure brilliancy of the light, and the aistinctness of the
by to sm was generally admired, and, we believe, was regarded.
in Early persons as one of, if not tile best dial of the kind,
the eubiciand. Shortely after eight o'clock in the morning,
tore' unneY of a small house in Upton-street, near the fac- •
th - of Mr. Lewis Williams, was blown down, bringing all --
lte r(ti'ut with it into the attic story. In Acton-street, London
fit?: m there was a melancholy loss of life. About half-past
110e6e°',9,,ock in the morning, a chimney belonging to one
elle.' 'ell upon another, occupied by a man named Moors,
ch°,4l,eer al the factory of Mr. Lewis Williams. In the front
olds were 11i:tore's wife, and an infant of four months
lh 'ell,beed 1 they were both completely buried in the ruins.
steel "e" in the back room were three children, who were
they arlY covered, except one child's head. In this condition •
huktoreinained about two hours and a half, the accident being
the er-t.)wn to their nearest neighbours, owing to the fury of
lenetelud rendering it unsafe for any one to venture out. At
at,: '' a Man named Weston, finding the door fast, chopped
ontenae,l with an axe ; and, nicking his way up stairs, he was
hatj'e",e to discern in one room, above the rubbish, the left
whe" "Mrs. Moore, and in the other the head of a little boy,
dta-,, WaS alive. - In trying to extricate the latter, Weston
tlien°lo4 a quantity of igicks slates, &c., upon himself. He
essC went down,- opened th'e doors, and, having obtained
int.:lnce, all the sufferers were promptly extricated. The
li.ettlitrwas dead ; a little boy of about three years of age
'ell e'pr about ten minutes, being apparently suffocated, as
of '' tunch bruised about the head. His mouth was full
rubbish •i•
ineeh • . he mother and the other two children, though
bruisedjkourei(iergtLand, and hurt, are all doing well. There, was, we
great difficulty in procuring a surgeon. In
dowwinKm much damage was sustained by the roofs and win-
e; °f many of the larger residences in that suburb.
HE,Xs PORI) ROAD CDOItITON•UPON-MEDLOCK, AND GREEN-
kre •---Besides numbers of roofs, partially blown tn, and
ex at
quantities of glass broken in the windows of houses in
cer4".ed situations all the way up Oxford Road, we have as-
in tained that the following, doubtless amongst many other
efi',,a,,nees which have escaped our inquiries, were some of the
1.10;-„nis,of the gale of Monday morning :—The house of Mrs.
t e'-`"Y Thornhill, pawnbroker, the first building in tehorl-
' 4—°n-Nledlock, over the bridge in Oxford Road, was much
fro-I„°;iged by the fall of a large stack of chimneys near the
oe.'house. The er room wasoccupied as a store-
ree-T for pledged articl, sapid`was fitted unwitiflarge wooden.
of
for that purpose. These racks, and the quantity of
uf ~" in bundles upon the floor of the room, broke the force
f ',''n,fall, end prevented the mass of brick-work, slates, &c.
al.',"` ',reeking through into the room below, where .rs.
~;;rnhill and her family were at that moment at breakfast.
hr he roof of All Saints' Church was forced in in two or.
e, Places
trim., ; but the damage done to the edifice is but of
of i\'t_g etAtent.—Two houses in course.. of erection at the end
Ai
.ietv York-street,—an open situation a little behind the
tonmodist chapel, Oxford Itoad,—being touch exposed to the
fury of the wind, sustained considerable damage.
it-11:1..me.—Here, as in other parts of the town, the broken
ii,4,s,', slates, chimney-pots, and powerdn materials lying
-„,'Lle streets, show the fury and of the gale.
Ra`,ainenttooe.—One of the most destructive effects of the
IlaTte nu Property, in this immediate neighbourhood, was the
th (if the large and very handsome octagonal chimney at
• r. e clietnical works of Messrs. Andrew Paton end Co. menu-
), Miring chemists, Cot nbroOk, near nubile. In falling, the
li Yge chimney brought down a smaller one, that of the red-
itluor building, probably about forty feet in height. We are
0,44 to learn that no person wits -at all hurt, though several
is'iri were very near the chimney when it fell. The rubbish
ii,„"!ing rao.idly cleared away: the erection of buildings, we
Will`nldm will be commenced immediately, and no interruption
ine Occur to the operations at the works, arrangements hay-
Queen made for carrying on the various processes without
re„reusion or demay. The spray from the canal was thrown.
• iais high as the top of the chimney of Mr. Patun'shouse,
fd, I was tossed about in every directton. At a shout
seadistane
v-o° 1,1 the works, in the garden of Mr. Halliday, there
fi„Zious proof of the direction of the wind. A large hot-bed
p-rorthe+. placed east and west, had its chimney, which was
the—aulY Six yards in height, placed close to the middle of
from` 'utb side of the frame. This chimney was blown down,
pe„about the height of five feet; it fell so exactly west, or
baet"'tel to the south side of the frame, as nearly to touch it ;
br k°,!!he 500 or 600 panes of glass in the frame, not one is
ne°e fell and not even a brick of the wall„ by which the china-
the" le", is at all grazed. The wind blew in a few panes of
the (~-°nle light at the works, and stripped many slates from
den,-"r• At the farm of Mr. Stnith, close. by, it did much
dist-nage to the hay, catching it up, and whirling about and
also etsing it. The roofs of the house and farm buildings are
s..ttich damaged.
to iilnkl:Fotto.—We regret to have to record one fatal result
110(„e of the storm in this township, at Clapper Hill, an old
was te. uecupied as a farm by Mr. Gaudier, one portion of which
Obi i he residence of an elderly single lady, Miss Royle, with
line:4 resided her niece, Mrs. Sandiford, and her child. A
timed alter seven o'clock in the morning, Miss Hoyle and the
pert were in one bedroom and Mrs. Sandiford in another
th f, the house, when the wind blew down a tall chimney
tar:mm 1W the roof fil the bedroom where Miss Hoyle was at that
hrite•C°"eling in prayer by the side of the bed. Pant of the
free, work struck her on the back of the head, dreadfully
ill 6,11 Pd her skull, and killed her instantly. The child was
bedr m atid escaped without injury. The servant, in another
• reot."'nm was driven to make her escape; slates from the
the ecenniug throueth the ceiling of the room, and falling upon
fery
un'fl in which she was lyieg. In Miss. Royle's.garden the
'tee,. the wind snapped a tree in two, in the middle of the
;Ireami °t the
is stated that the unfortunate lady had always a
'i"litte ''' the chimneys falling, and had had all the others
he, d roilud with iron and stayed ; but the one which caused
-Thealli. she was assured by the bricklayers, was quite safe.
eceet,eltininey of a house (one of three) in the Strettord
4lr, 13"u,ad fell through the roof of the one occupied by a
titet,,nit°n. a surgeon, upon him as he lay in Led ; fortu-
nee :';',,`'e was able to extricate himself without material dam-
4;n.ioi ,ie chimney of his house tell through the roof of the one
Just il.ng with a violent crash; fortunately, the servants had
resieet-,num and had left the apartment.--:Aa Longford, the
at,e,,-"ce of C. J ' S. Walker F.sq. many of the haystacks
vhitiirlriiofed.—At Barlow 11111, the seat of Shakespear
Windo°B' besides very sericus injury to the root and
elio, Ot. twelve very fine old trees, near the house, chiefly
• Year;l`,ilsoine of theta it is believed, more than two .hundr,d
ii, A Lip"' were torn up' by the roots.
h':',!st-ou°sltu.cr—The storm appears to have caused fhe most
-)-ee , - effects to property in this township : fortunately,
diltetti''' few persons received any injury. It would be a
,tleYs cull‘ltask to enumerate the instances of demolished chirn-
'unte dwellings wholly or partly unroofed: we, therefore,
(I furl
le rourselves with stating the most striking instances of I
it, or, lit'
; ' ere.;-; the stortn. During the course of the morning, I
the the 'd was the violence of time wind, that very few houses
,:ge chiureseent escaped without being partially unroofed, and
TR, the'uce's blown down. About six o'clock in the morn-
: *O"lelphisl°1111 was at its height in the neighbourhood of the
:el Wii The workmen in the employ of Messrs. Gisborne
I,"ich ; 'num on the premises belonging to Mr.'rhomas Bury,
Jrceiedre, being fitted up, we believe, for a calender-house,
it'h,ratel th"t the large octagonal chimney near Bank Mill
ii 'roela "•11 so frightful a manner that'they were apprehensive
. ti, three tall. Five of the men were at work in that three-
tii,itig ti of thein in one of the rooms of the building ad-
ill 'grille tugine.house when they were thrown into a state
(,i'„httilijint7 a loud crush above their heads. The roof of
to he chi Ir was smashed inwards by the large coping stones
tio Inlet e.,414e3, which they noticed was oscillating in such a
tilt° 01 t"L'eto leave no douttain their minds that a great. por-
theey priivued structure would speedily fall. in this opinion
crashFhiln„ l" be correct; for, in the course of a few seconds,
-er broke , • d fell forward with a tremendOus
tr„,k, e,.:., e an. t
te,„° to th,....111te down the roof and flooring of the finishing
le," steer, ',geound story, used as a boiler room, in which are
Vie ehituo
.ioilers, employed in
531workng the ste:nn engine.
st iltilt of (-3' was originally about yards in height, and a
ai:edi
esbout 27 yards lia; fallen. The damage, we un.del-
m4thos.ed Viinated at nearly five hundred. pounds; end it is
chved elo,11"! one of the steam boilers will prove to. have re-
tiltnoey
ttleriat m ;
,„ vßittry. It is supposed that the portion of the
thiteopeoe•es fell had first come in contact with the collier of
le "nes, -h."sem the walls of which are of the extraordinary
:lairs eituatt 18 inches, and that this had broken the falling
Sit.. tile 10, to poi-liens, and in sonic degree weakened its fall.
hotiated
„wer clown the street, on the side next the river, are
,trt.bllers`rtte, works of Mr. Wm. Fletcher, dyer; and the
NIPPLet of',(,c,:pied by this gentletnan were almost wholly
imh,..sie
eti
~ slates forming the roof.. About 'five minutes
to 14 to (.01:1(1 i,m several of the men, being in the yard, were
eboute ti,
at nence working, when some of them, happening
w furl the chimney, which was a large square one,
1);lY as It?' yards in height, observed it oscillating in such a
lii
4seetly
tilleave no deobt but that it would speedily fall.
voirr'lopie, e.ebiinney cracked near the Lase. and broke oir
„i„, wi", ~ direction, falling forward, partly into the reser-
thiliinot
t:tt
et f F: ii,l e.t_i dous , crash. The damage at this. place
m,, auks o . river,
—Still lower down the Atlelphi near
II Rite d l the river, are the cvorks uf 1) eel,' Yers nod finishers.' Messrs. Demyhu;st and
ilia tm, th , Upon the premises of these gen-
t, h th e nestruction was very great. they having no fewer
neir ree elii neys blown down. The men had come to
(i.(6)inite‘ov?iri.k...,a,ttill'ile. usual tame in the morning; but had not
!,4_
~IVhetvhile.l consequence of it being exceedingly question-
-11071.r, es tiiitt
s,.t•t could he. set to work with any degree of
ehrt." parts !, le es and
.bricks were flying about (corn the
trine
vi.,,ct the buildings. At the same time, the large
ee(.. it the .let stands in the yaid was bending to and fro
dt,iit three ' t,imitnneys, on 'lnc of the building;, hail fallen
le h°us u ',lock in the morning, upon the blue end fancy
"th es, (loin.. . •
wet% the rears .. considerable damage in that place. At
ovpr fully
roatt entertained for the safety of the large chimney
er4s,a %pep, _ le sell• Aker waving backwards and forwards
di,t,,e, toliii,„.o! several feet, it rime down with a tremendous
elan, nee (4.'e against the (Irvine sto • which is situated • t •
tiree''e do lit fifteen hundred stove,
from its bas. The
s;11 it is ex ' ' Messrs. Dewhurst and Saear's premises will
nue! Peeted,
1"e II an° 'rho exceed I:Bjo.—The dyer'work's of Messrs.
thttir eta p,.
~. pas Ashton, near Broughton Bridge, called
ht!ertleilzio:eui I Works, shared somewhat similar to that of
" al lit
thue
oxen .N. liitle before six o'clock in the morning,
.'employed upon the pre-Mises were Sfaud-

ing at a fire in one of the sheds, when all at once they were
alarmed by a most tremendous crash, as if all the buildings
close by had fallen to the ground. Upon some of them pro-
.ceeding to the dye house, it was found that .the building was
a heap of ruins, the large chimney belonging to the works.
having fallen, and breaking through the roof of the black dye
house and the machine house, in which are situated several
dressing machines and drying cylinders The chimney was
about thirty yards in height, and besides breaking through
the buildings upon which it fell, it also broke the side of one
of the stone troughs, and destroyed four or live dressing ma-
chines, and a set of drying cylinders, and broke the mill-geer-
ing. Of course much injury will have resulted to the ma-
chinery, from the quantity of rubbish that fell upon it. A
very small portion of the chimney was left standing; and in
this case as well as in the others, to which we have referred,
the business of the works will be partially suspended for a few
days. The damage done upon Messrs. Ashton's premises will
be partially suspended for a few days. The damage done upon
Messrs. Ashton 's premises will amount to about £4OO. One
man was struck by a piece of timber, but was not much hurt.
Had this chimney fallen a little later, there would have been
18 or 20 hands in the machine-room, immediately in the di-
rection in which it fell. At the chemical works of Mr M`Guire,
bottom of Springfield Lane, Broughton Road, two large
chambers of lead upon timber framing, used for making sul-
phuric acid, were torn to pieces by the violence of the wind.
We understand that the damage will amount to at least £5OO.
About half-past five o'clock the same morning, the chimney
belonging to the house occupied by Mr. Charles Lancaster,
butcher, New Windsor, Salford, fell with a tremendous crash,
breaking the slates, and forcing the roof down into the bed-
room below. The beds and furniture were much damaged
by the falling rubbish; but no personal injury occurred, the
occupants having about a quarter of au hour previously
quitted their beds.
At the Ordall dveworks of Messrs. James and John Wor-
rall, a chimney about 20 yards in height was blown down,
fortunately in a direction clear of the buildings; but it tell
amongst a number of carboys of sulphuric acid in the yard,
and broke nearly thirty of them. None of the men were
hurt. Mr. John Worrall had passed the line of its fall but
a yard or two when it came down.

jPENDLETON.—There are very few houses in this township
which do not exhibit many proofs of the violence of the
storm. In Chester-place, Paddington, Leaf-square, and
Richmond-row, there is not, we believe, a single house hut
has received damage of some description, the. roofs being
whAly or partially torn off, and the glass demolished.—At
the house of Mr. Carver, at the end of Leaf-square, the wall
in front of the yard has been blown down, and the chimney
has fallen through the roof, presenting on the whole a very
unsightly appearance.—The kitchen chimney belonging to
the house occupied by Mr. Edward Connell, in Leaf-square,
fell in with a tremendous crash; a large quantity of the rub-
bish falling through into the room below, and blocking up the
door. .

ECCLES

At the vicarage, on Sunday night last, the vicar and Mrs.
Marsden experienced a very narrow escape. Feeling alarmed
from the violence of the storm, lest a chimney, over the room
in which they slept, would tali, they removed to another part
of the house, and shortly afterwards, at an early hour on
Monday morning, the chimney was blown down with a tre-
mendous crash; the slates, bricks, and rafters, all tell into
the bedroom, and laid that, as well as an adjoining room,
open to the sky. In case Mr. and Mrs. Marsden had not
'fortunately removed, there is every probability that both of
them would have been seriously injurtd.
Of course, it will be readily supposed, that the tempest
which caused such extensive devastation in this town has not
passed over without leaving traces of its fury in the sur-
rounding country. On all sides we hear of buildings de-
molished or unroofed, large chimneys blown down, trees up-
rooted or broken, and other melancholy consequences of the
storm. Of these, it is obviously impossible that we should be
able to give any complete account; but we subjoin such par-
ticulars as have reached us :
OLDHAM.

The storm was experienced here with great severity, and
caused great and wide-spread injury to the roofs and chim-
neys of houses, factories, &c., and to the timber and fruit
trees growing in the neighbourhoo r ; and the following cases
are of a serious description. A factory, four stories high, and
ten windows in length, newly built, and not quite finished,
belonging to Messrs. J. and J. Wile, of Turf-lane, Royton,
and which stood in a very exposed situation, was entirely
blown down a little after six o'clock in the morning, and now
lies a complete mass of ruins. What seems very extraordi-
nary is, that the roof of the building was found lying upon
the wreck of the walls and floors entire, not a beam or a ratter
being displaced, nearly the whole of the -slates and ridging-
stones in their places, and, what is most extraordinary, con-
sidering the height from which it had fallen, the greater part
of the glass in the skylights unbroken—one skylight in par-
ticular, not having lost a single square !—At another un-
finished mill, belonging to Mi. Jacob Taylor, of Scott Field,
Primrose Bank, the chimney was blown down,-and, falling
upon the building, cut through it from the roof to the ground-
floor, leaving the whole interior a mass of ruins.—Amongst
the buildings which have suffered in -an interior degree are
the following:—The north-east pinnacle of the the tower of
the church has been blown off, but without doing any serious
damage to the church. The roof of the chapel belonging to
the methodist new connection was greatly damaged, 'as well
as those of Primrose Mill, North Mill, and Park Mill; and
two of the windows of Shaw Chapel were blown out.—We
have not heard that any serious personal injury was sustained
in the town or neighbourhood.