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The Liverpool Mercury
Friday 9 August 1822
The inhabitants of Burnley were very much alarmed about six o'clock in the evening of the 18th ultimo, by a whirlwind, which unroofed several houses, threw down about a dozen chimnies, threw a man off the canal bank into a timber yard (a fall of about twenty yards, but fortunately he sustained no injury;) tore up twenty-one oak and ash trees in Townley Park, and did considerable other injury in the town and neighbourhood. The storm was accompanied by darkness, thunder, and lightning, and the rain fell in torrents. The smoke arising from the unroofed buildings gave rise to an alarm of fire, and the fire-engines were dragged about the town in great confusion, but without their aid being required. The evening was calm at Blackburn and Preston.
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