TERRIFIC GALE IN ENGLAND.

Kumara Times, Issue 2304, 16 January 1884, Page 3

TERRIFIC GALE IN ENGLAND.

The mail news via San Francisco gives some particulars of the damage done by the gale of hurricane violence which passed over England on the 12th of last month, and which was noticed in our cablegrams of that date. The narrative as telegraphed is wondrously disconnected, as anyone acquainted with the geography of England will perceive. Much damage was caused in London and the provinces ; huge trees were torn up and carried away in the lowlying districts. Birmingham was flooded. A portion of the roof of the church of St. Chad, Derby, was demolished and the Congicgational Church also injured. The parish church in Rotherham was much injured. Chimney shafts were thrown down at Manchester and Leeds. Large gas-holders near Bradford were capsized, and great damage was done at Liverpool. The chief officer of a steamer just anived from Glasgow was killed, Cabs were overturned, and many buildings damaged. At Lincoln the parapet of a tower of the Cathedral was blown down. A ship was blown from her moorings in Belfast Harbor. The British ship Liverpool, from Quebec for for Greenock, is a total wreck near Stranraer; only one man of the crew being saved; Two persons were killed at Hull, Yorkshire, and several injured, and a portion of Portsmouth was flooded ; and at Hartlepool many ships were damaged. At Birmingham two persons were killed, and a number were injured ; three were killed at Manchester, and three at Dewsbury ; at Chester a man was blown down in the street and killed, and two persons were killed at Liversedge. A portion of the roof of St. Mary’s Church, - Berwick, was destroyed, and several houses in the suburbs of Nottingham were blown down. At Da In wick, a gasometer was demolished and the Postal and Telegraph Inspector at Leeds was cut in halves. At Bradford the monuments under the cliff in the cemetery and a portion of the deposits of the Midland Railway were blown down. Several vessels docked in the Mersey were damaged. Two vessels were wrecked at Denmure, Scotland, and two men were drowned. The Lowlonds of West Lancashire and Garstang districts were flooded. At Glasgow, the damage to property was very great.