New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-13
BIG GALE IN GREAT BRITAIN
MANY PERSONS INJURED AND SEVERAL
KILLED BY FALLING CHIMNEYS
SCORES OF HOUSES UNRooFED-A NUMBER OF
VESSELS SUNK OR sTRANDED-THE LOSS
OF LIFE sMALI--HIGH SEA IN

VESSELS SUNK OR sTRANDED-THE LOSS
OF LIFE sMALI-HIGH SEA IN
THE CHANNEL.
London Feb 12-The gale which set In In
Great Britain late on Saturday night continued
to gain In violence yesterday. and in the after
noon the wind was blowing with hurricane force
Telegraphic communication has been greatly In
terfered with and details OF the damage done
are being received slowly. peculiar feature OF
the storm was the destruction wrought among
the churches
At Tegnmouth. in Devonshire, a church in
course Of erection was entirely destroyed. The
spire OF st. Mary's Church at Shrewsbury
Saop. was blown down. At Peterborough.
Northampton. the pinnacle Of the parish church
of ST. John was blown The English Presby-
terrain Church at Holywell. Flntshire, was also
among the buildings wrecked. A boarding
school and many houses in the town were blown
down At Newport in South Wales, the roofs
have been blown off several houses.
Hartlepool in Durham, which town stands on
an almost insulated promontory was exposed 10
the full force of the storm. tall chimney on
one Of the houses in the town was blown down.
The bricks crashed through the roof. railing
upon the family. all Of whom were in the top
story Two children were instantly killed ana
their parents badly injured. At Stockton Tees.
also in Durham number Of dwelling-houses and
shops were unroofed.
The roof of a house at Iron Bridge, Shropshire,
fell In, crushing the occupants OF the house.
The wall of factory at Oldham, Lancashire
was blown down. Close beside the wall stood
three cottages Upon these the huge mass Of
brick and mortar fell, crushing the buildings
into splinters Nearly all the inmates Of the
ipiu but no
right.
At Dudley In Worcestershire. several factory
chimney stacks were blown down. In TWO or
three instances the falling chimneys struck the
factories causing great damage. In TINS town
many persons were injured and scores or houses
were unroofed.. ,x
hampton Staffordshire, instantly killed by
a chimney falling upon them through the ROOF
Of the house Five persons were injured py
The wind blew with such violence that 1t
overturned tramcar running between Woiver-
hampton and Dudley. The car was run OF pas
sengers and twenty OF them were slightly IN
ured. In West Cork the gale has caused I'LL
mense damage to property.
Communication between London ana me S t,sorh
tinent is completely cut off. A tremendously hlgh
sea has been running In the Channel, and all the
steamers plying between England ana france
and England and Belgium has been more or
less DELAYED The steamers plying between
Newhaven and Dieppe did not venture out OF
port. , -,.s
DISPATCHES are coming III Iron P'"N
reporting the wreckng or stranding or vesseis.
| Thus far small loss of life has been reported.
The Yarmouth steamer Resolven, Dound from
| Cardiff went ashore yesterday. The Caster
nfcboat succeeded in taking off the seventy-five
persons on board or her. . a.
A dispatch from Greenock says that the Nor
weeian banks BERTHE and Tancred have been
wrecked The British bark Wilhelm Tell, from
| Calcutta which was dischargng cargo at the
| Alexandria Dock Hull was sunk In the gaze.
! The schooner Brilliant went ashore at Cairnryah
| Scotland. 1t Is thought that she VIII soon De
| cot afioat again. The fishing smack Favorite
sank I'm the Thames. off Greenwich; EVERYBODY
an her got ashore safely. The Valisdoof Is ashore
| az Siloth on Soway Firth. She Is little DAM
| aged Several vessels have gone ashore on Mar
gate and Ramsgate A broken lifeboat. with the
| word Liverpool painted on the bow, mas Deen
washed ashore in Langlands Bay hfeooat
which left Swansea yesterday Is missing.
The Prince OF Waess yacht Britannia. when
,s 10 sail in the regatta at Nice. was compelled
nv stress OF weather to put into Plymouth Sound
where she will remain until the storm abates
sufficiently TO allow Of her proceeding.
| a dispatch from Flushing. Holland. says that
+he British bark Gateside Is ashore The Danish
schooner May Is ashore on Kaloot Bank.
paris. Feb PA dispatch from ST. Quentin