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mills of Mr. Blower and hisfamily, escaped 
with the utmost difficulty. Mr. H. Wartee, 
of Crock-meale, had 26 cows, besides other 
stock, carried away. In Coleham, the water 
began to rise about half-past nine o'clock, 
and increased so rapidly, that persens had. 
pot time to remove their furniture. The 
cellars and ground floors in Coleham, and 
that part of the Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, 
near the church, were almost instantaneously 
filled with water, owing to the arches of the 
bridge over the brook being for some time 
unable to take the body of water which rushed 
down. One of the privates of the North 
Shropshire local militia fell into the water at 
the farther end of Coleham bridge, and was 
instantly carried away by the stream. The 
damage occasioned by the storm is estimated 
at 20,000]. The bodies of the unfortunate 
persons who perished have been found: the 
following are their names. ~ At Pontesford, 
Mrs. Heighway.; Eliz. Thomas and Cathe~ 
rine Nailor, servants to ditto; Richard Ben- 
nett, clerk; Richard Simmons, Samuel 
Speake, Richard Hincks, and Jacob Bishop, - 
Yabourers ; Eliz. Reece. At Minsterley, Mr. 
Hoggins, farmer 3 William Hulmes, labourer; 
and Thomas Parry, waggoner.. Curiosity and 
motives of humanity have Jed many persons 
to-visit the suffering cottagers, as well as to 
explore the hills whence the destructive tor- 
rent poured. Beyond the Snailbatch lead 
mines, there is a valley called the Crows. 
nest Dingle, on each side of which the Sti- 
perstones Hill rises; upon the right is that 
part called Castle Ring, and on the left is 
Lord’s Hill Bank, or Gorsy Bank. The sides 
of these two points have several rents or 
deep channels, from whence the waters. is- 
sued; and nearly all these channels tending 
té the Dingle, the waters tore themselves a 
bed wide and deep, and pursued the descent 
so Minsterley, &o. The water has made 
perhaps a dozen holes in these hills, at con- 
siderable distances from each other, and the 
soil, with pieces of the rock, are worn away 
from one te four yards deep. At or near the 
spot from whence several of these channels 
are. cut, small springs formerly issued; in 
‘one instance, several yards of marshy ground, 
-which it was unsafe to pass across, are now 
perfectly sound and dry. Ifa stranger en- 
quired from whence the torrents came, the 
inhabitants generally stated that the water 
*© gushed out of the s/ips” in the mountains. 
The generally attributed cause, however, of 
the phenomenon, was the sudden condensa- 
tion, at these different poig's, of the skirts 
“of one immense cloud, or of several smaller 
enes. 
_Married.] At Broseley, Mr. R. Ferrington, 
to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Mr. John 
‘Toye, of Brereton, Staffordshire. 
At Shrewsbury, Mr. T. Davies, to Miss 
Elizabeth Kilvert, 
- At Market Drayton, Mr. Pemberton, of 
Stafford, to Miss Besford. — 
Worcestershire. 
[Jaly 1, 
Died.| At Shrewsbury, Mrs. Knox, wife. 
of the Right Hon. George K. 28,.—Richard 
Plummer, esq. captain in the Shrepshire mia 
litia, 26.—Mr. Phillips.——-Mr. Edward Jones, 
—Mr. Edward Pryce. ; 
At Whitchurch, Mrs. Kent.—Mrs. Edge, 
of the Swan Inn. 
At Mulford Hall, Mr. Thomas Smith, jun. 
At the Mosses, near Wellington, Mrs. 
Hooper, wife of Mr. W, H. 
At Wellington, Mr. Joseph Turner. 
At Ruyton, of the Eleven. Towns, Mr, 
Read, surgeon. 
At Minsterley, the Rev. Mr. Williams. . 
At Pym’s Farm, near Werns, W, West 
Betty, esq. father of H. W. Betty, better 
known by the name of the Young Roscius. 
At Newport, J. Dickenson, esq. solicitor. 
At Terrick, near _Whitechurch, Elizabeth, 
wife of Mr. John Smith. 
_ At the More, Lucy, eldest daughter of the 
Rev. Herbert Oakeley. 
At Cotton Wood, Mrs. Shone, 96. 
At Betton Strange, J. G. Scott, esq. 
WORCESTERSHIRE. 
On the 28th of May this county, among 
others, was visited by one of the most tre- 
mendous storms everremembered At Wor- 
cester, hail stones, or rather pieces of ice, 
were picked up measuring five and six inches 
in length 3 and there is scarcely a window 
exposed to the S. E. which has not great part 
of its glass destroyed. At the House of In- 
dustry 500 panes were broken, at the Infire- 
mary 150; the Bishop’s Palace, Town hall, 
and chapels, in a like proportion; the china 
manufactory of Messrs. Barr, Flight, and 
Barr, 12005; and of Messrs. Grainger and 
Co, to! a very great extent; Mr. Freame’s 
cabinet warchouses,in Goose-lane,lost upwards 
of 1000 panes 5 and the painted eastern win- 
dow at the Cathedral has received serious 
injury. The greatly admired walks in San- 
som-fields, present a lamentable consequence 
of this destructive hurricane ; many of the 
stately elm and chesnut trees have received 
irreparable, damage ; the gardens are despoiled 
of their fruit and herbage; the hot-houscs, 
green-houses, &c. have been totally destroyed. 
A deluge of rain accompanied the hail, and 
the Severn rose nearly twenty feet in less 
than twenty-four hours; in one hour it ros¢ 
six feet; this of course occasioned a severe 
flood, which has done incalculable mischief. 
It is supposed that the reparation of the glass 
alone, at Worcester, will exceed the sum of 
50001. : Sa 
Married.| At Worcester, Mr. James Pool, 
to, Maria, youngest daughter of Mr. Allen, 
Sen. 
Died.| At Malvern, Mrs. Nash, wife of 
the late Rev. Dr. N. of Bevere. 
At Dudley, Mrs. Lee. ; 
At Spetchley, Mrs. Berkeley, relict of Re- 
bert B. esq. 08 
At Hagley, Thomas Lea, sen. esq. 75. ~ 
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