Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-01

SEVERE STORM IN GREAT BRITAIN WITH LOSS OF
LIFE AND PROPERTY.

SEVERE STORM IN GREAT BRITAIN WITH LOSS OF
LIFE AND PROPERTY.
A high wind did much damage in Lon
don last Saturday night, and many persons
were injured. The glass roof of the West
minister aquarium was demolished, causing
panic among tho audience, in which several
persons were hurt. A printing office in the
Haymarket was unroofed and boy was kill
ed by falling debris. Many vessels were
wrecked off the coast and large number OF
lives were lost. Reports from all parts of
the kingdom show that the gale was of al.
most unparalleled severity. Al Hastings the
theater and pier had to be closed, the electric
lights along the parade were quenched and
the seas dashed over the streets, making walk
ing dangerous. There was heavy snow
storm throughout the country. At Torquay
there were many casualties. The shops on
the isle of Wight were closed early on Satur-
day owing to the hurricane. At Newry many
houses were unroofed. At Leeds the roof Of
dwelling collapsed, killing the daughter of
a workman and injuring his four sons. The
mail train between Durham and Darlington
was twice stopped by the gale. No boats
were allowed to leave Portsmouth. An iron
chapel at Newcastle was demolished and the
falling roof killed a woman and two children.
A railway station ut Elmswel, Eng, was hur-
ried across the rails, blocking traffic for some
time. On the Letterkenny railway ireland
train was overturned. The storm was de-
structive at Paris, severing railway and tale.
graph communication in all directions. The
gale blew down telegraph wires and did much
other damage in the suburbs Many persons
were injured while walking in the streets.
An immense number of lamps aud windows
were smashed, scafolds overthrow, trees
uprooted and chtmueys destroyed. The gale
blew down POO, 600 trees, 100, 900 on a single
/ estate
/ Is BARSUMs WHITE ELEPHANT FRAUD:
-Barnum is managing to get his white ell
/ ephant, which is now at the London Zoo,
well advertised-as was to be expected Just
now the dodge is that the animal Is not a
white elephant at all, but only poor beast
with some sort of skin disease A London
despatch says that one eminent authority de-
clares certain pink patches on the animare
shoulders 10 proceed from disease which he
can cure. Mr.. Sanderson, superintendent oil
the government elephant department in Ben.
gal, asserts that the elephant does not differ
from hundreds belonging TO the commissaria
Of the value OF Elj0 to 200. Mr.. Guy Law
erick, a traveller, declares that he has seen
real white elephant in Songari which wa
perfectly cream colored all over He offer
to procure one Of this kind. Though tn,
white elephant is declared a fraud and to b,
neither sacred nor white, immense crowd
continue to flock to the Geological Garden
to see it. The council OF the gardens for
bids the public performance of religious rite
before the elephant by reputed Burmese
priests
The ship Juno, from Liverpool for Cal
cutta, has foundered in the Mersey and al
hands, numbering p, were lost.
An explosion occurred last Friday in
colliery in the Rhondda valley, Wales, KILN
II persons. A rescuing party of three men
including the manager Of the colery, VIII
subsequently descended into the mine, wer
also killed. A second exploring party dt
scended into the mine Sunday, but wer
forced to return by noIious gas. The WORK
ings are a complete wreck Sixty eigh
horses we're killed. A thousand men ar
thrown out Of work