ROUGH WEATHER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 737, 7 April 1881, Page 2

ROUGH WEATHER.

A gale of great severity,, causing nraoMflj damage and some loss 'of life, throughout England' on .Tuesday', aad : s|| Wednesday, February.. Tuesday also there'was a wVWMI snowfall. Houses have been iinroofuA trees torn, up In Derbyshire have been swept away with other agrioul- ""B tural produce. A wall and portion of the roof of the Ellensbaw'weaving shed .'*•'< at Blackburn fell in and buried a number of people. Five women and. a man were seriously injured and a girl named •; Lightboyn, who was not released from ; ;: the ruins for many hours, is not expected ' to recover. Many persons were at the metropolitan hospital for injuries, I principally scalp wounds, received in the ;vi gale., While Mr Bradford, the" secretary/ 'iflj of the Bank of • British North Americaf §m •was leaving his house at. Sutton for thf §-■ City on Tuesday morning, the roof • wal.f B blown off, and he was killed by the fallinXf I of rubbish. In Warwickshire there is§|l recun-enee of disastrous floods, caused the overflow oithe rivers. Vast traots of fl land are under water, while roads are inlH some places impassable to people on foot. }■ In North Derbyshire the Valley of thejfl Derwent, by Chatsworth, and Matlock, is one'vast sheet of water (HI The Valley of the. Wye, for four miles, deep lake. The railways are and road ways covered to the depth ofS four feet, ,^H