GREAT STORM IN SCOTLAND.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1051, 21 March 1882, Page 4

GREAT STORM IN SCOTLAND.

The heaviest wind storm which has been experienced iu the West of Scotland for the past twenty-five years took place on January 6. Professor Grant, of the Glasgow University Observatory, reports that the pressure was as great as 501bs. to the square foot, or over 80 miles an hour. Great damage has been done to property, and loss of life is reported. On account of the great wind the Clyde rose to an unprecedented height, and in the towns ail along its banks destruction was caused by flooding. For the most part work at Glasgow Harbour was suspended, the waler running above the quay head and flooding many of the sheds in different parts ot the city. The roofs of dwellinghouses were driven in by falling chimneys, and cases arc known of the occupants being buried and so injured by the debris that they had to be taken to the infirmaries at the neighbouring burgh of Govan. A rope work was blown down during the time the people were at work. Several, of them were buried in the ruins, and while a lad named McCamey was killed, two of the oilier employers, named Martin Connelly and Alexander McDougall, were so severely crushed that they had to be removed to the infirman. A woman who was walking along the street had her head so severely cut t.mt she is not expected to live. The shipbuilding yards ou the Clyde were flooded, and considerable damage has been done. The breakwater al Bowling was submerged, and the lighthouse completely swept away, while a d rench brig named Josephine, being I diiven on the breakwater, was much damaged. A little way further down li e Clyde, a portion of the railway winch connects Glasgow with Helensburgh, and runs pretty close to the river, lies under water. The wall was washed away, and the rails torn up, so that traffic was entirely suspended, the passengers having to bo taken in vehicles. The town of Dumbarton also fared very badly. The river Leveti on the one side, and the Clyde on the other, betii overflowed their bank:, and submerged the greater part u. the town. Business was almost en£ tirely suspended, boats were being used on the streets. Many of the shopkeepers had to sit on their counters, and await the receding tide. The Police Office had to be evacuated and the Postoffice closed, and one of the banks had to cease operations. At Camesken Bay, near Cardross, about 300 yatds of the breakwater gave way through the stress of the tide, and the tails were so twisted that all commuicalion was suspended. In Heiensburg and along the coast of the Gareloch the roads were rendered impassable. At Fairlie the building yard of Messrs ryfe was flooded, and a yacht was carried from the stocks and laid on a bank a considerable distance off. All along the Ayrshire Coast the lower parts of the towns and villages were flooded. ‘