The roof of the sacred edifice of Trinity Church fell in with a great crash, on the morning of the twenty-fourth of June, about half past five am., and a great deal of rain had fallen throughout the preceding day, (Sunday), much thunder and light ning accompanied it and some of the claps were very heavy. The span of the roof was very wide between the walls, and it appears that 'a water spout had poured its stream Just over the beam in the centre, and had so injured it and the surrounding brickwork, that the continued deluge of rain caused the walls to bulge out, and give. way.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.