NARROW ESCAPE AT NEWTON ABBOT: During the gale on Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Tozer, of Greenhill Lodge, leading to the residence of T. Pinsent, Esq., had a very narrow escape of being killed. They were sitting by the fire, when Mrs. Tozer, on looking out the window, noticed a tree about to fall in the direction of their house. She instantly acquainted her husband of their danger, and they both made their exit as soon as possible. Strange to say, they had scarcely left when the tree, a very large one, fell on the house, knocking in the roof and breaking the chair Mr. Tozer had just before been sitting on into splinters. The skylight of Mr. Davey’s shop in Courtenay-street was blown into the street, and many houses suffered severely.
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GRO1036 Devonport: Thomas Pinsent: 1782 – 1872