TYPHOON IN SCOTLAND.

Dunstan Times, Issue 410, 25 February 1870, Page 4 (Supplement)

TYPHOON IN SCOTLAND.

The Dunbar correspondent of the Scotsman writes: —"The most extraordinary atmospherical phenomena that has occurred this Beason has been recently experienced. It was mentioned in the papers that the tea had risen to a tremendous height. From the havoc and destruction made in Broxmouth-park, about a mile to the east of the town, there seems no reason to doubt that a whirlwind, with all the fury and force of a tornado or Eastern typhoon, passed within a very short distance, making wreck and ruin in its path. It appear 3 that the whirlwind had "-■itered the policies from the sea in a north-easterly directiiru The first object that suffered was one of three cattle-sheds, which was totally unroofed. It •hen struck due west, making a gap through a ulautation of three trees broad, but leaving the others unscathed. Turning, then, to tho south-eaßt, it eized upon the eastmost island of a large lake at this point, breaking down the whole of the trees upon it, and tearing up about half of the willows by tho roots. Striking across tho lake in the samo direction, :t seized on an old plantation, carrying away seven if tho outside trees, some of them by the roots, and .tilers broken over at 10 or 20 feet from the ground. In another place the storm, leaving two trees on the intside, entered the belting, and for a space of at >'ast thirty yards in diameter only four trees were eft standing. It then changed its course to the ceit, and seized upon two ricks of hay, each containng at least sixty stones, lifted them up bodily, and brew them against the railway embankment, a coniderable distance off. It was only where the fearful vhirlwind had gone that the havoc was made; and -nch a scene of destruction within such a narrow ;ornpasß has possibly never been witnessed."