The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-12
A GALE IN ENGLAND.
Much Destruction wrought Among
the Churches.

the CnuFcneSs
By Gable to the United Press.
LONDON, Feb 1s 1S94-The gale that set
in Great Britain late Saturday night, con-
tinued to gain in violence during yesterday,
and in the afternoon the wind was blowing
with hurricane force. Telegraphic connuni-
cation has been greatly interfered with, and
details of the damage done are being re-
ceived very slowly. A peculiar feature of
the storm was the destruction wrought
among the churches,
At Teignmouth in Devonshire, a church
in course of erection was entirely destroyed
The spire OF ST. Mary's Church at Shrews-
bury, County of Salop, was blown down.
AT Peterborough, County of Northampton,
the pinnacle of the parish church of st. John
was blown over, and the glass roof OF the
Great Eastern Railway Station was de-
stroyed.
The English Presbyterian Church at Holy
well, Flintshire. Wales, was also among the
buildings 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.
1t is feared that there have been many
wrecks along the coast. Several vessels have
gone ashore of Margate and Ramsgate, Isle
OF Thanet, Devonshire.
At Dudley, in Worcestershire, a number
of factory chimney stacks were blown down.
In two or three instances the falling Chin
neys struck the factories, causing great
damage. In this town many persons were
injured Scores of houses were unroofed.
Communication between London and the
Continent is completely cut off.
A broken life boat, with the word Liver
poor' painted on the bow, has been washed
ashore in Langl ands Bay.
A life boat that left Swansea yesterday is
missing.
The Yarmouth steamer Resolven went
ashore Yesterday The Caister lifeboat went
out to the wreck and succeeded in taking off
the seventy five persons on board OF her.
Dispatches are coming in from various
places reporting the wrecking or stranding
of vessels. Fortunately there has been thus
far small loss oflife reported The schooner
Brilliant went ashore at Cairnryan, county
of Wigton, Scotland. 1t is thought that she
will soon be got afioat again, as she is not
apparently damaged.
The fishing smack Favorite sank in the
Thames, off Greenwich. Everybody on her
got ashore safely.
The Valisdoof is ashore at Silloth, on Sol
way Firth, county of Cumberland. She is
little damaged.
A tremendously high sea was running in
the channel, and all the steamers plying be-
tween England and France and England
and Belgium were more or less DELAYED.
Those steamers plying between Newhaven
and Dieppe did not venture out of port.
The roof of house at Iron Bridge, Shrop-
shire, fell in, crushing the occupants of the
house beneath it.
The wall OF factory at Oldham Lanca
shire, was blown down. Close beside the
wall there stood three cottages. Upon these
the huge mass of brick and mortar fell
crushing the buildings into splinters. Nearly
all the inmates of the cottages were in
jured, but none was killed outright.
The Prince of Wales yacht Britannia,
which is to sail in the regatta at Nice, was
compelled by stress of weather to put into
Plymouth Sound, where she will remain
until the storm abates sufficiently to allow
of her proceeding.
Hartlepool, County of Durham, which is
situated ON an almost insulated promontory,
was exposed to the full force of the storm,
and considerable damage was done in the
town. A tall chimney on one oil the dwell
ing houses in the town was blown down.
The bricks crashed through the roof, falling
upon the family, who were congregated in
the top story. Two children were instantly
killed, and their parents were quite badly
injured.
At Tees, also In the County of
Durham, number of dwelling houses and
shops were unroofed.
A despatch from Greenhock states that the
Norwegian barks BERTHE and Tancred have
been wrecked there
A quay at Port Glasgow was carried away.
The British bark Wilhelm Tell from
Calcutta, which was discharging cargo at
the Alexandria dock, Hull, was sunk by the
gale.
that the British bark Gateside is ashore.
The Danish schooner May is ashore on
K Ka1aot Rank