The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-01-16 00:00:00

THE MILL DISASTER AT BRADFORD.
MPARAGIG PROM THE QUM%

At a nutting of the Bradford Town Council on
Tueeday,the id iyor reed the following telegram, which
he had just received ir 'as Sr W. Harcourt :—" The
Queen has desired me ui teeme her sincere sympathy
with the sufferers by the sad disaster, and wishes to
be informed how the injured are going on." The
Mayor telegraphed a reply t Sir W. Harcourt as
follows :—" I am in reeeiot of the gracious message
from the Queen, for which I tender my noway
thanks, and beg to inform her Majesty that the y ruin
injured in the late disaster ore being well cared for,
and are progressing se favourably se possible towards
recovery, and that every attention Is being paid to
the families of those who loot their lives."
EXIRAORDINARY SUICIDE 01P SERVANT
GIRLS.
Carolina Smith sod Hannah Bailey, two servants in the
1t.,. George Sadler'e employ at folloseop, weat to bed
apparently in good health on Sdurday night, and were
toned dead together on Sudsy morning in their
chamber. The report I. in circulation that they both
poisoned themselves through diseppointed love. A lust-
mortem seamiest' in wise mu., end the content. of the
stomachs were seat to Maoceeso r fur analysis Until
the result is ascertained, the cause of daub remains •
mystery. Both girls are rupattfully connected, and bore
excellent characters, One of them came from Sheffie.d,
and the other from Shropshire.
The family In which the girls lived is a 'ergs one, eon-
sietine of Mr. Sailer, his wife, his mother, and See
children, together with two others he had recently
adopted. In the house on Siturdey eight, in addition to
the members of the family, were the two servants. One
looked slter the kitchen and the ro 'king, and the other
had cue of the dutch:ea. Both girli panned thotousbly
comfortable and contented, and showed not the slightest
siga of anxiety or trouble, so that it snub. imegiau how
mudded were the household on Sunday morning when it
war discovered that the two esisenra, who bed retired to
rut seearently In health, were lying side by side deed in
bed. The Ray. George Sadler states that both "Carrie"
zed the younger servant appeared quite well on Saturd.y.
Owing to bin mother'. and the domestic claims
upon his wife, the eided servant had pretty general
c. ntrol of the kitchen, and was ducaly ever interfered
with. She wee a girl in whom they Owed rivet co.&
donee, and this the hail never abused. In fact both girls
did their work satisfactorily and agreed with one another.
Whet they had for supper on Saturday evening he does
not know, but there is no trace of poison in the home, and
gofer as hut been ascertained at present, they bad noth.ng
except ordinary food. It was always " Carrie's duty to
wait upon the rev. gentleman, and seen he got home at
half-put nice o'clock on Saturday nizht she brought his
copper 'hAisuserte aSsihrthirmisillr?'gOdcniolcgitttt!? They were
th
girls come
to d
questioned sets ',huhu the liable, fires, and doors were
all right, and they said "Yee." Tbell he sad " Carrie,"
"I want to be at Sunday wheel to-morrow moraine at
nine. Let me have breakfast at eight prompt. tehe
replied, "A" right, ; good night," and both girl"
thou went to bed. That was the lad he saw of them
alive. They occupied an attic as • sleeping chamber,
and slept together in one bed. The room, he said, had
been mueured since their decease, and had been foetid
to contain a 'Ancient number of cable feet to render it
• healthy bedroom. Owing to his mother's illness an
adult none was in attendant)e open her, and the nurse
sat up the wholo, or nearly the whole, of the night See
hoard 'nothing etrange—no cry or sound of any kind ; bat
at half-past six o'clock on Sunday morning. on his meter's
request. the went to the attic to arouse the unmet". N. t
cueing to enter the chamber, she opened the door a little.
and c died to the girls, but got no reply She stayed st
lead • Quarter of an hour calling to them and knocking
at the door ; then, becoming alarmed at their silence, she
went to Mr. Sadler's mother, and said she was afraid
there was enmethine sewn The none now proceeded to
Mrs. Sidler's bedroom, sod the welder's wife, on hearing
that the woman hail b.en uuable to arouse toe servants,
wont at once into the atuc At first du thought the girls
were only in • deep sleep, but on toweling them she was
terrified ti find that their bodies were cold Her husband
was ardeep et the time, but, going hurriedly to his chant.
leer, she awoke him. and was in such a state of excite'
runt that be had great difficulty in calming her fears
Ede said she had tried to valn to awaken the girls, and
prevailed upon him to go to their bedroom at once. On
looking at them be thought they had been seized with
St.. Both gide lay with their faces upwards, and the
youngest one, U,nnah Bailey, had her right arm
thrown out. There was • little vomit on the pillow
near her mouth, but no contortion of feature.' in either
girl, the foe and holy of Burial Bailey, however,
being slightly . 'uoloured. Not only himself, but his
wife and nurse endeavoured to arouse them, but their
efforts were unavailing. He immediately sent his
nephew for Dr. Mackenzie, and the medical miza soon
Sri trod. As soon ai he entered the chamber he said
"They are dead." But Mr. Sadler could not believe it,
and remarked," You must bring them round • they see
Ins fit.' The doctor again strove to arouse them, but
without success, for they hood b it.h entered upon their lad
' sleep. Dr. M.ckenzle then acquainted the police with the
oeoorrence, and after conferring with Superintendent W.
H. Holgson,chief constable of the borough forcathe latter
summoned Dr. Rhodes, and the three smitlemen went to
Mr. Sedler's house. It. was then secertsined beyond 06
' doubt that both girls were Walesa. Early in the day
Superintendent Hodgson drove to Beaton to see Dr.
B:onett, the Cor-ner, but, f.iling to do no, had an inter-
view with Mr. It G. 11.1upwon, the deoutrecoroner, who
ordered • post.morrem This wee nude oo
Monday moraine in Mr. Badler's drawinsoroun by Dr.
Mackenzie, Dr. Rhodes. and Kr. John Rhodes. Whether
they discovered any clue is to the cause of death is known
only to themselves • but it woe decided to send the
stomachs of the iiaottonste girls to Manclustee for
analysis. At present the affair is still a mystery, dod it
is giving rise to all kinds of strange rumours. One is to
the effect that the girl, have committed suicide through
disappointment in lire; another. that they were choked
by an escape of on.; a third, that only one of the servaets
took poison, and the other died through inhaling the
vitiated atmosphere. Toes. are oily /aloes and the
analysis may prove that both deaths were academia,
although the general opinion is that this is very unlikely.
Both girls were of • inoet cheerful disposition, and attended
not only the chapel loot the Sunday wheel. Carrie t nob
prominent part in • dialogue styled "The Twelve Graces."
at Christmas, and appeared al one of the Grams herself,
reciting a bruin which, as it turns out, had • sed
significance, for it contained an allusion to speedy_ death.
Her parents wont from Atterchtle to Glossop on Monday,
and were thoroughly overcome on seeing their daughter's
remains. They stela that she had been in service slue
she was very young, and had always borne an excellent
character; indeed, Yr. Sadler said she was much liked in
his own family, sad that they considered her • most
valuable servaat The other girl, too, was greatly
eppreciatod, and she refused to take another etiolation a
short time beck "because she nal so comfortable." It has
been found teat the fine of the chimney which beats the
chapel runs along one corner of the attic in which the
deceased were sleeping. Words" night was densely foggy,
and it is ocajeotared, with good show of reason, that tee
fames from the coke could not get away through the
heavy state of the atmesphere, tend that they filled the
chamber and suffocated the sleeping sdria—Aa inquest
was held on the bodies on Tuesday. In then ures of the
woe... Rep it trenspired that the chapel Rend the house,
and oa Togged*, morning, when layers of super were
stripped from the wall of the attic in which the
girl. elept, ,t was d,seovered that a quantity of sulphurous
gee from the coke ailed for heating toe °bowel bad
ezto the bedroom and Dr. Modes expressed ea opinion
tatiato =rig had died from aerbaria. The laqu'y was

. THE SALISBURY ELECTION PETITION.

In Cheatham, Londoo, on Thanday, there came before
Mester &weft the inquiry into lb. oll.etleas entered by
the Coneervative spent aimins'. the sureties in the Sans-
hury election 0.111011. The Cote•rvative agent had
et .ted on deposition that I. did not believe the suretiee,
/draw. Whitekorn and Rev% were worth £5OO, but they
este now proted to to wottb £lO.OOO end LIMON
rem, etie, ly, a fact which the Lite-fel cenneel •tet.d
e uld easily have been seartuned in Salisbury. The
diauittsed lb. objeetims. The petition wi,' now
proc-oded