In some cases they were ground almost to powder; in others, driven deeply into the earth, as if discharged from a piece of ordnance.

The roofs and gables of many of the houses had been torn off.

The signs of the shops were carried to incredible distances.

Here and there, a building might be seen with the doors and windows driven in, and all access to it prevented by the heaps of bricks and tilesherds.
Through this confusion the carpenter struggled on;--now ascending, now descending the different mountains of rubbish that beset his path, at the imminent peril of his life and limbs, until he arrived in Fleet Street.

The hurricane appeared to have raged in this quarter with tenfold fury.