, 1884-01-16

CatlOn Interrupted &C. many lives,
too, have been lost. 1t is reported
from Newbury that a I"rge row OF
commodious workshops, recently
erected at Eastfelds by Messrs. +.
II. Bagge and Co, engineers, were
blown down.
A gypsy encampment in the Forest
of Dean was blown away and the
occupants had a narrow escape.
Several trucks laden with coal were
blown off the line near CinderfOrd.
In the districts OF Small Heath,
Neebells, and Aston, Birmingham,
the damage TO house property WIS
very great, and in some of the low
lying districts the cellars were food
ed. In Charles Elenry,street a widow
named Sarah Ann Gritfiths and her
son, n boy of eight years, were killed
by the blowing down of their house
in which they were sleeping. The
chimneys of the residence Of Mr.. w.
Il. Hope, at Erdington, crashed
through the roof and feeling, the
debris falling on beds occupied by
four children, one of whom, an infant
20 months old, was killed. In Great
Russell.strcet a chimney fell through
the root Of a house occupied by a
brass worker, named Frederik Baker,
burying him and his family beneath
she debris. They were all ultimately
%extricated, though in Il more or less
bruised and shaken state. Many
other cases of ptrsonaI nj Try are
reported. No estimate of he.damage
hus yet been formed, but il must
amount to many thousands of pounds.
For several hours Geographic com
mum cation with the north vas com
pletely interrupted by the destruction
"f telegraph poles and wires. AT
Stoke, near Coventry, two houses
were demolished, and on some lines
of railway pieces Of coal were blown
off engines IN motion. The root OF
Broughton Church, lIawardcn, has
been badly stripped, and The
states and ridge tiles were hurl,
ed great distance. William Coxon,
II collier, who was sleeping IN the
engi1e-house at Sandbank COlllerY,
Burslem, WAS killed by the chimney being
blown down and falling into the building.
The public market at Armagh was dis
mantled, as were many houses. Immense
destruction to property was OccaSioned at
Newry, traffic was interrupted, and com.
munication between Newry, Dublin, and
Belfast was stopped up to 3 o'clock on
Wednesday. A wooden goods shed at
Warrenpoint Railway Station, measuring
soft. By soft, was blown upon the line, for.
tunately, however, after the last train had
started. Several persons were killed at
Manchester. The fall of a chimney about
10 yards high at the works of Mr.. Bishop,
cabinet-maker, BOchdale-road, destroyed
the shop of a widow named Elizabeth Pill
ling, and she and two sons were found
dead beneath the ruins. They seemed to
have been killed in their beds. A woman
was found dead in Mosslane east, a Chin
neypot having struck her on the head. A
chimney-stack fell at the house of Mr..
Rayson, Alma-park, Levenshulme, and the
roof fell in the children's bedroom, causing
the death of Pauline Raysou, aged IA. At
OswaldtwiStle a mill in course of erection
was completely demolished, and at Black
burn the gable end of a new building, four
stories high, ready for roofing, was shat
tered. LII Preston two houses, nearly com
pleted building, lave had their fronts and
bay windows torn out, and the revolving
head of the Corporation Observatory was
carried aWav and denoSited 40 Yards dis