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III. Letter from Lord Howard de Walden and Seaford, Her Majesty’s Minister at Brussels, to Lord John Russell, on a recent severe thunder-storm in Belgium. Communicated by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell

1860; Royal Society; Volume: 10; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspl.1859.0069

2053-9126

Howard de Walden, Seaford,

Historical and Literary Studies

The writer states that the thunder-storm burst between seven and eight o’clock at night on Sunday the 19th of February, and was accompanied by an unusually heavy fall of snow throughout Belgium. Twelve churches were struck almost simultaneously, although at great distances from each other, namely, near Malines, Antwerp, Liege, Louvain, Charleroi, and Courtrai. Those of Aerschot, Nazareth, Wesemael, fine old buildings, were totally de­stroyed ; those of Puers, Lierre, Aerselaer, Lobbes, Walcourt, Marchienne au Pont, Liege, Courtrai, Moorslede, suffered more or less in the steeples or towers.