Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-15
A,GREAT GALE IN ENGLAND.
It Had the Force of a Hurricane
and Did Enormous Damage.

anu Dlu enormous Damage.
Churches Feel its Effects DIsastrousIy--
Vessels Blown Ashore - Communication
With the Continent Cut off,
LONDON, Feb. 12.-The gale that set
in, in Great Britain Saturday night con-
tinued in violence and yesterday after
noon, the wind blowing with hurricane
force. Telegraphic communications has
been greatly interferred with, and de-
tails of the damage done are being re-
ceived very slowly.
HOW CHURCHES SUFFERED.
A peculiar feature of the storm was
the destruction wrought among the
churches. At Teignmouth, in Devon
shire, a church in course of erection was
entirely destroyed. The spire of st.
Mary's Church, ut Shrewsbury, county
of Salop, was blown down. At Peter
borough, county of Northampton, the
pinnacle of the parish Church of st.
John, was blown over, and the glass
roof of the Great Eastern railway sta
ton was destroyed. The English Pres
byterian Church at Elolywcll, Flint
shire, Wales, was also among the build
ings wrecked. A boarding school and
many dwelling houses in the town
were also blown down.
AT Newport, in South Wales, the
roofs have been blown off number OF
houses.
MANY VESSELS ASHORE.
II is feared that the1e have been many
wrecks along the coast. Several vessels
have gone ashore of Margate and
Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Devonshire.
HOUSES UNRooFED, PEOPLE INJURED.
AT Dudley, Worcestershire, number
of factory chimney stacks were blown
down. In two or three instances the
falling chimneys struck the factories,
causing great damage. In this town
many persons were injured. Scores of
houses were unroofed.
A STEAMER WRECKED.
Communication between London and
the continent is completely cut off.
kfhe Yarmouth steamer Resolyen, bound
from Cardiff, has been wrecked. Her
crew was rescued. A broken life boat,
with the word Liverpool" painted on
the bow, has been washed ashore in
Langlands Bay.
The Resolven went ashore yesterday.
The Caister life boat went out to the
wreck and succeeded in taking off the
rs persons on board of her.
A life boat that left Swansea yester-
day is missing.
AFEARFUL SEA IN THE CHANNEL.
A tremendously high sea was running
in the channel and all the steamers ply
ing between England and France and
England and Belgium were more or less
damaged. Those steamers plying be.
tween New Haven and Dieppe did not
venture out of port
INMATES OF HOUSES CRUSHED.
The roof of house at Iron Bridge,
Shropshire, fell in, crushing the occu-
pants of the house beneath it.
The wall of factory at Oldham,
Lancashire, was blown down. Close
beside the wall there stood three cot
tages. Upon these the huge mass of
brick and mortar fell, crushing the
buildings into splinters. Nearly all the
inmates Of the cottages were injured,
but were killed outright.
OTHER WRECKS REPORTED.
Dispatches are coming in from various
places reporting the wrecking or strand
Ing of vessels. Fortunately there has
been thus far small loss of life reported.
The schooner Brilliant went ashore at
Cairoryan, county Of Wigton, Scotland.
1t is thought that she will soon be got
af1oat again, as she is not apparently
damaged.
The fishing smack Favorite sank in the
Thames off Greenwich. Everybody on
her got ashore safely.
The Valisdorf is ashore at Silloth, on
Solway Firth, county of Cumberland.
She is little damaged.
A dispatch from Greenock states that
the Norwegian barks BERTHE and Tancren
have been wrecked there quay at Port
Glasgow was carried away.
The British bark Wilhelm Tell, from
Calcutta, while discharging cargo at
Alexandria Dock, Hull, was sunk by
the gale.
A dispatch from Flushing, Holland,
says that the British bark Gateside is
ashore.
The Danish schooner May is ashore
on Kaloot Bank.