The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1867-01-22 00:00:00

APPALLING ACCIDENT IN REGENTS PARK;

LONDON.

Au emident of • terribly fatal obaseeter happened ea
Tuesday afternoon, on the ornamental water is frost ef
Bosse: phoe, lirgent's Park, London. Hese wag •
•beet of lee about 300yarda in length ribald-oin breadth,
mad daring the forenoon weeral thousand persona had
hem 'lnitial/ upon without any accident tak plater, al-
though it was looked upon by the experienoed itiemen on
dety re very 011.41 C. tr. lie being principally now Me..
Bet, at three rielocik in the afternoon, tb• ice wee •
roam of creaks, and looked lik• .aortae* of irregular
Bagging, eo small end diatinet were the separating
talooks 'masked oat by the Linares, through whisk the
water ram

Regarding tbese drawing symptoms, many left the
1.., and in dein( as meetly got • wetting, for, with
hardly an eiceptiou, the WS had parted from lb..
all around the lake, but about 250 perroar oontinuert
tempting foe. Shortly before four o'clock three
children and two men went through ths ke together at
.bout a dos it feet f,ous the tooth-western shore. •
eentlrman immediately plunged in sod brought to the
abort the three children, who clang round non. Allmon
to drown biol. Here one of the R Tel Humane fincirty's
rues incited • great deal of indigestion. He went a
fet or no iota the grater, and there welted till the
.bildren were brought to him, end then, with another,
clairared to have rescued them. One of the men -ho
had 'Wien in scrambled out, and the other aell takes
from a boat by a Royal Romany Society's Jean. Immo.
di.tely after this several other perrOe fell in. bet they
wet. sown gee set. Some skit swat...lied to their pee&
lion by the.. accident. end the !hoots of the people as
the hank., • few other pinyon. kit the lea not, however,.
ultimut ip mast corp. failing through when near the
shore. At thin time a down people or, the northaestere
aide 110. r the boathouse, who were steadies (nose toge.
'her, eatelong the niiefortunae ..f othera, petit fell in
together. Thu wee wilier..d from all parte, and
ere.ted a pame among all who remeined on the kw, end
they all vrith one accord ruebed towards the op,neite
ahem. Before this movement 111.01,0011.04 members were
men drom ing throegn the tee is all part.. As the
frightened groups mole for the Stoke Om whole 6.1.1
of ice gore two or three braves, end then ricaultanep.ste
broke up over the whole of the broad part of the
lake. In as instant 900 men and ehildn-n were
thrown Into the water.. A fearful cry of dismay
procord.d from them as the, fell, which was mingled
with • load shont of honor from the thourands
who lined the benks. Then all wee onefeelon and

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direction. For siveral minutes nothing effectual wan
even thouti t of, and there in the water eould be se n
children, of from eight to twelve yean of ace, cling.ng
to the odes., of the broken ice, trying every moment
in frantic voieea for the fcahtinee which thrum who
atithemed their suffering. were powerless to render
therm, and in &brief time giving up their abort lease of
life .Itti a fe• last faint ertiv.• of tb• hand airs,' the
water. Th..* who witnessed thew. wines cried an
seen greater exhibition of feeling than
the self-rems themaelves. The Arst •hock writ., men
rushed wildly about, seizing upon everything ,ft the
OAP. of • rope or spar to throw to the struggling net
dtownlog ; but by this time all direct emaninnication
with thin wan cut off by lie general be akinciep
the i.e. end very few were reached fbr • long time. A
cry MY rained of "The Isosis, the %nista!" and
hundred. ..1 willing tuck. IN ran off to return with the
boas on their shoulders, Irk when they got them into
the water the gre.hitst dill ally was experienced in
firming them through the roe. lid.pot were maid!,
joined, and then one roe). being wiled meter
lbs bridge they were stretched final shore to shore and
eleeggeg nione A few perwrns inaneried to (Map them,
but they «odd not be desisted ashore, and b•of to
remain holding on to then, till the boats picked tb,.
up. &m..e of thm fail. ii to bold on long eon •Ith, not
ibe spectators were I.rwriii-.1 to Ce, every now and
then, • open thornegbly eabatiated gradually relax his
hold and sink. . .

TlitTittir--... ye that this apparatus of the Haannno
Rociet, latneutably deficient for rush an oftwion.
The ropes we,. nitten—thi ro seas hot ore. hie taitler,
whieb proved melee% sod hut one b••ket eledee, erbieh
um
not oiled into reguistion. T • el. . .theits,
este, or let out for hire in th• stetson, were procured
snit launched, but Op wi seem of frail emstruction, and
it qty. .102 great dill taliy they wield ha
thy Telt the water owing to the blithe of isr, but,
nevertl elrw. they w•ro ins,rottental in saving very
out,/ lives. Rim a were drawn across the lake by the
it weans Socioy's inn. tbst the untortanno. drowning
people tuiebt catch hold of them .A keep thenisehres
float, hut es tone sr the tension atom to • certain
p.int, the mime in most eases on., p across like •
piece of sittou thread, and, thin 1... change gone, mney
• Ilne I- Bow sank with a last abeiek de!iiiiir.

What rnade the some the more dreadful, says the
Tees, ofte that the female relatives of many of them
C 1... fell into the water row their waneelee fema the
hank wi hoot the poasibility of eating them. One lady '
.aw hp. Moho., sink sad lose hie life, while two
ebriere were sending forth piercing sereatalt end &ling
on the pen le to ante their brother. He sea.
and the two ladies were t.lten away in s. moat pitiable ,
date, and mat to their home in a cab. The scene*
were mos: startling and harrowing. Wom.o rushed
about on the banks screaming that their Andra., or
host:ands, or brothers were drowning, and imploring
the bystanders to save them. Boys and girls stood
hysterically 'eying and wringing their heads, sce
between their oda declaiming, "Oh, lonk ci father I
011 father, father l" and giving capes...ion to other
heart-reading educes:4i it, ; and stroog men °meal.
.idly appealed to thoee who had no means of help, and I
'tainted out friends sad relations struggling in the
agonies el death.
The ',airy New says, in some direetloas splashes
only lastlsatesl Idler • human being had disaapprared ;
here and there a hatless bead would emerge, reeratios
the &goateed features of sae who clutched at the broken
•lippery Me and again sank; men were seen lesion'
(ram block to block, falling at length upon a piece larg
enough to Kumla them for • moment, but small
enough to tilt over before they had retired a place of
refuge. Nearer the be, Ito, in the shallow water, Mee
and women doundered about with terroratreken choir
Oren in their arms; a few by their own ex' vines
reached safety after being immerged in the *entre
of the space for • long time ; sod diet .rb-
I ing the already troubled waters on every hand
amid be seen the up thrown arms of no a
and bays dry:aline fees to face with death. The
agony of the snrying spectators lb-ctme met
They were pow-rises to reader emidance beyond try irk
to rally their drowning fellosr.eyeatune with rheerhig
shoats to take heart OA help would so :a be at b.oa.
Soule, indeed, there were, who stall hardly be emirs:rod
from ruff:ing serer the treeelotrous ioe' dying eat,
.:Tie • role round us,, and we'll go, there'll be no d•nger
then ;" end it was only by the aid of sheer fore. that
they could be p ed petting theof gallaot design
into execution. The Telegrapt says: P-end and be .rt,
rending beyond all domeriptmo cows, the scene in
'be centre of the lake, that on the banks, though of a
-lit-rent character, an not less awful Idea and
women in hundred; appearwl to have lost their acne
—to haw begrime bewildered—and, impelled by mono
mighty force to do something , to have lost all ;emerge
tioromplahing anything. Now, females elle. hrerk,,,
Unhands, use, may be In that gorging pima( 'road ok
dooewd TSB, ahriek a. they bebol I some unfortunate
feilow.being dia.p.ear beneath the water. Than
there Pones fro:n the sante woo.. • byeseneal cheer as
• man is reiened by a twat. Be freatie did some of the
eve witnemea of tie calamity become that •dosen or two
of them rushed at • large tree, and, dinging to an
enormous bough, by their goiter' effor. broke it off. It
fell on some of them, and hart moss then one severely-
Aa many see old then lein bold of e oh end, and after
swinging it eeeeral those, dung it into the water, and it
was .eised upon by Moe who were not far from the
abore. Oh I rave use -sore am, mother," sereamed •
humble little boy, Mrs the .sr, who bad doompaniel
Is parent to the park, where she hoped to earn the
price of his dinner by selling oranges to the apeotatora.
And thy mother rusbed wildly to the lam. edge, only to
fee the waters dare ever the Idele heart that we, all to
th.t pour woman. "Where is my boor .hoo,d .
rou4man who had 100 been mooned from the jaw. of
-teat, by the asicupant of one of the tiny pleasure boats.
The hoe had rote slows for the last time. and the 'trimly
of the feher feenO c-ot to load and mat painful sobbing.
From the bank such cri. • as limes wawa hoard every
s--meet: "Oh, look—look them g....•nother poor
fallow—he's gone:" nod May sontioued until all human
beings had diseepirtred from the surfer:roof the lake. Ba.
fore the ow had .et every bl 'oh spot which we typical
of life and hope bad gone, and a collects -o of hats alone
told of what a scene bad been enacted there that Sue
January evening.
Wall.dreesei and lewly-dreeeed Men vied with each
other in ems of heroism ; while sissy n 'boated and
erapt,, :HO women wrong their bends a. they joined in
the general bewailing. dorms of *deal person, wrer
plunging into tbe ester and 'pinging the helpless to the
snore. Sems.4 the rescued will perbana need know to
whom they owed their prertervation. We( Daly Aar)
can furbish an rimmde. A man, apparently a nagobaato,
was shrieking for help about fifty yards oak when his
Pries at,raerted the attention of a reotlemut in the mow&
Without • moment's ntoitaticm he prang into the weed,
batters . pordite through the lee with his naked gut,
a„,i shale fr the now so:king man who onniodietaly
threw hre *rmt round his tools and I abed hi.,, in a
poritooo Ti the I. 0.1.1. 41 rho.* who were
sta•chtos the ionalent, boh foe
bot they rad loahly warned ale • 1.144 t'w *ctn.,
plea l.'s of the b standem ga.4l•man. gitlog SO
oompanion iota the *hart* of erevedil wiling Pslinete.
• d oe one tom could steak to hon. titer
MO• like this •ill unroll. The Ifuniane
Bodety's nip:, the perk k pent, and polio& is seism!
' insulters. dist:n.ni.b d t'aenselmes by emoetbing more
' than the bore performance of their duty. Tlen• of the
pa-at:pres who it tart venture lido toe water treed bard
: in tie •in encooace Ira ew: edit, off..riwjr. In atm
tor two odes, lariat r.- ward. for the s.fety Matadi or
I friend. At tr e none time the eir.rt4 of roue 11.0,
with-
not payment for a. o-oartommoot, we Im•• loam given
to enamor ii. lamented, *ere dreg icareded by She
' Steedermsekinise gleaMilinedelffselfle apaviallent

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The plitial Mei eftillarlly let out by Kr. Poodle
the adt-ltsecwa boat bender were beoftyht bit mita"'
aad °DO of these, dinectid by g Egs,fta. I t,ohor.
latrailental is &avian many Irmo. From his And
ramble's amoftg the WA*. ice A rebate eta., d wits
tie... in lib, fir Iltie time, veritable ft Mit Am"
end van be ribbed foretell, sad sots the tray MA
Int was min at meek
Ii wo • terrible work for all—pelige, goeffttee way
pasmpeca, sad private Maloblittals meal of whom
ran into great Ake is tboir well-meant esuloeveare to
glee eif.
As every boat inenbed off theta WIAC.I lagaY "law
teen to man hot as would have mregiosid beer sod "
lea moved or warn blocked thomereemiteas from
the "rectal."' mid redoubled also from Mom whom
1i,.. aemmded ea the work.
A nwa named Soon, dril) receive." motdalOwo years
ate ref mow. 4.4., aim tar imemsolgeo" wsi
very active. and aped several perecone. Jost aa °Ye of
, the kite approached • seiner be amok kill • 7044
mail in the boat pleured alien him into ine eirder, ea.
brolrOe hire op. Thog were both imt into 'lllO bast.
Mr. Whnsell, the proprietor of Me boat eft. wog
""etria hlihil•forts• a" ass indebted
to tin Mr how lie".
A gealoinaa, who Make through wear the eolith-
mews Mori fell so Met Ma head sad Meet mated oft
• large block of ios, while hio feet were in the water.
There be lay smoking his pipe for • long thee while tho
baste out aking op as Nat pOOOllll6
1r position. He berm, however, be
realm bie peanut, and, removior his pine from his
mootk, be ealt t oil. ''llo Co any om who will lota
a. mot r amoral abortive attempte were made to monk
him with topes, poles, aid ladders. A man with tie
aid of • ladder temeed &small pies of mead Ms. sad
'Wampum° to through • rot. I. Ma. bat It fell short.
Its then nimmod to yeah the ladder on to a Mem of kro
farther owl, end stmaing co the former he agodo three
tu• mil. In debut ao h• fell, and in sliming to the
ladder he hart Wowed and wa• drawn sabots. A gee.
deceit thee gitiwto an mem fitted up with burgle
Me sod. Vim pugbed put as far a. poselbie be got
foto the wag, and eodeamered to posh the seethe
along, but he did not memo& imanally, a mai
it rim ed to his skirt and triamers, and • rope having beim
Axed to hia waist he domerately knight his may through
the a., and migiag the Mater round tbs body, they wore
both dragged to land said tremendous abeam
For half no h&or were the tort, to rearm coatinned,
and at ho en& of that time there still enialued throe or
four individual. in ponitena of isolates sad extras*
Peril. The out noteworthy sad toeshing of Mem in-
°idea sea. Mat of • father holding his two Mildreft, •
by and • girl, and who bad held them al tbio long
thirty minute. of the acting of this terrible some. Ho
Mood op to bis wabt is the water, hemmed in by large
mason of iee, holding hie boy as one &boulder and the
girl under the others,.. At length • hoes made it'
way to late., end ho mid hi wen brought gale ashore
amid th. melmsations of the crowd and mom tease at
minow grief And joy.
In forty al atm after the sabre all the living Were
aft laud except one solitary individua, who remained •
rimeef., WI A block of ice, which, though itsl4qoary. woo
onneeted (rine any JSI which reached the lend.
This man hsd re quiet oldie the business of
saying others in mere imeinent danger was prornedin&
hot whim all else awn safe be seems to hem thought of
hie ant modem, sod to bag regarded ft, with reave,
or of • meirmliat embalming nature. [Voila of mock
Anetiee, direction, and reareparing, a beet yes g
alortgatia the beg on whin the willmty man mood, now
fully alive to the danger of his pinitteft, mod in consider-
able frig, t. To.b.ve waked to the edge of the ice ift
order to get into Me boat woad have boss to telt a oar
menioa and penhiblo disegrpokrartos. He therefore ad-
mired eantioaly; sad dewing . Hoe at * gale diatmee
from the bat, mind • few paces, with the evident Is.
fruition of taking • imp for lit.. This he Aid cleverly,
and by • exert roofing Pimp he Medea blamed fauly
in the how of the boot,

ile-ai7o;--ho—r.
WSJ t I -adhoor el the Weakish( of the lee
lase bodies of police liaise to maim sed rendered
great ',detester) in dragging ropes 'hat bad been can•ht
by somber( those in the water. li. fetebine and ',mashing
boars, and be ping idler. ba•-k. All thiL tins the
mast was kept up by the f,equrnt doting of those
who bad lost all power to rapport tbeaselvea
Two of the Haman* Soaery's men narrowly sompad
death, and both are sow lying in • dassoaoes modition.
One of ibers, J. Meriden, after having reamed 30
pence. from drowaing, was emephriely palled in the
water by them* struggling for life. and it was after
an_sidershls disruly that he was marketed. The
other man, H. Borth, was in a similar Da4MOIL A
coincides°, in the life of Sheridan ia worth • passing
notice. Sheridan, IS many of his coentrem. •of this
Sister 14e, served gallantly ;a the Federal snag when it
was arrayed against the rebels of the south, and haying
rue teed twelve wounds at the litattle of Boll'. Ran,
wos r. tuned in the official list as amoral the kale& Ho
was rimesereded, bowsaw, and lived to hers many
nitrtriJap is defeone of the tleims. Os Teasley
Sheridan. while endeavouring to resale a boy, legume
sehmeaged, aid was for my. tel minutes and. r the Me.
Ilevwris •ith mach difficulty got out, and J.r the aecood
time in his life was rata 'be.' grooms the dead. Is two
bows earl a holt he waa reesseltated. sod is sow is *fair
war of recovery.
Dreadful settee of issiteniest prorated tbremghnot
the evening in the • only Illarylabooe Worhhonee by
the arrival a frantic parent, and e;latives sod friends
of thee, lama and duskier. who lied net returned to
their hoses. Great grief was displayed by thaw •ho
retioguloed tetrads *neat the dead One gentleman who
knew that hi, sin, • Ter) fine young MRO, about twenty.
lye ye.rs ;4 ace, had leen upon the ice, end wisloo to
ratirrly liimaelf whether or net be was am of the
&winced was dreerifully shafted rapes dia.:seeing hie
ady. He was troinpleiviy overwhelmed with grief, and
eeplMned arab lairs that bat • fee miner., before he
had left him in the fall enjoyment of file and health.
The female •i.itore cave way to the oil :est exprearons
of sorrow. The relatives of the most reepootable of the
deedeed were extremely solicited that 11. bodies
*Wahl be at ono. removed a. then. rosid.noso ; but flue
ovoid not he compled with, se the ooroner'a jury will
have to view there where limy now lie When in.
folioed that the bodies must remain where they de,
they begged that they misht be kept from the
public pee. At the and of the pew .gri in whisk were
the rooms enntainiog the dad, was n tiroorntion,
hirldine ibe inmates a " Merry Cbristaaa and • Happy
INT•se Year." In the endeavour to rend*: all possible
assiotaece, the authorities had had no time to 11.1•OTO
tide mocking welcome.
Ti,,. POWS@ in the park on Wednesday were meek
datreraing. Man• poraers who had mimed Manias,
•oro on t' banks eagerly waichiqg 'jag rumuutgad
UAW ~anineg Mein were Mother. whose sons had not
retunotd home on Toesday night, and who ware, there-
fore, easel& d with the apnrellenaica that they ww•
6100,1 'l'll hat. Thitig-loor bodes were dragged out
no Wrednesd•y, and several more are soppoesd MAI to
be wave the ion. _

wady *eery oar those ens a calm. placid ex-
pression on tie fess of the dead ; and in most the arms
tree. ettemied aftd lb. hands tightly olin, el. Semorly
any soars or abeam on. on,. siebl• on the -kin, let the,
hands in goose instances were Melted. as if, in grasping
at I, • ice, the haaoklaa had seraood idea/ its nudes

dash, *ben th. bed:, diascrearad bad bean
breeebt to the workhot.s, as sight prisventod by Use
interior of the disid hoses wee truly awful. llse
ranisios of the poor hikers wore decently covered with
seeking and p•op, women'. nighlvdrerses, sod akbouab
one was not Fenzel by tioiting on the Amid feature. of
11,. Mind, the forme of the finales evil palpable, and
the projecting tars sad arse, eves beoesth the
coveringe, m.d. op in die mind's go the piotore of a
charnol•bease.

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From inviroligatioss widish bees been instituted by
soientille persona Si to the atoms wi lob led to this
collapse end brealtiscup the ise in iro sudden a
m•nner, it would asses that tbe larxe sheet of water
Nets Susei•tarese was known to be inesions, and
Sot wits reedmird it sore en (eilstresy In the usual
theory) wma the complete Myatt's up et the we round
the islaod. Nw inch • otastroplis has loppeo• dno
one tiptoes. tedium to Mks the reepormilisility of this
proceeding.; hut It I. sated that the Humans Selety's
men Sok. the -bole of the ios roved tn. ishod to
Preset pee* nsting upon it. under the grain of the
perk cipenotenient.
I) spite the warning offered by lie cateetrapise of
Taredsy se•erslfoolb•rdr lersons this morning ventured
on the to, in the port whern it bad not broken throsgh
diedn. soli', hut the cries &ad hooting. al the people
soon shamed thou off &gain. In ;woo' of bow little
mem es°Ple sward the w•rehig offurde I tips lii.
stated that while tie people Imo. struggling in the
water yesterday them were astuallo • numbs of MOD
*toting no 'b.t portion of the tee oljorent to the Nos
uf the moodiest whit* had sot Sutton until bbe polkas
compelled them to dress
Tim inquest ens foroniJiy opened on Weduseday, sad
adi 'tuned.
re, drugging for the bodies was remiss I ori Thurplay,
•tel lour more were resealed, makings Ilona of NMI ty•
eight.

Kant Cocoon Wass. —This 0 • beentiful perfumed
hair wash. whi..b in .eveo or ten do) restore. grey hair
to 111 priltine him permanently. The head has to be
comely iipriiiklisd with it doily foe that time. by the
aid of on or/Wiry hair brush. It is laid at 10.. 61., and
is mint for poet olSoe order by the well-known perfumer,
Aux. Mika. JUL Hish Holborn, London. Mr. Yaw,
4 Yeovil, can impply it.
Cofr OS have long been held in high eddies
for prods.ing the f.vourite brimkfuit beverage of
large nenalier, of familws throughout the Maisel Kings
dom. Ckawil's Teas hoer .1a loos bold a position of no
UP an repute. The reduction of duty fairoriog • fre.tig
loaf-nod ainiiumption of these celebrated Toe..
Smith k Co. aro lion prepared to extend their Loudon
,by the appoiatmeet of new yenta in every town .nd
1 ',liege not et fully .upplied. Either traders or private
individuals will fisid the Agency • source of profit
' Terms sent free by nook by Caswell, Smith k Co., 80.
Fenehurch- treat. London.

HoLIPTIalre OINTHWI AND Pmos—Dioneo• of Os
skin, rim:worm, wary', oantlimh ierofula,or kuig'• ovil,
sore lisula, aid the omit Mystical* obis dimes* to
biob tbe bunion imam io subjoit, emir* be trested
with a more mio mad wham rsoiedy Mae Holloway's
Chatolout and Pin., which sot so , oculiarly on time coo •
siltation and so portly tla blood that Moog dimwit
are at our* ermilostoi from lb* *rim., and a hutlag
sure obtained. Timm are equolly Um ears
of tumours, beros, molds, glondulor •mthin a, elorrius
aroolaf a, rhea:lsaacs. seostrastsal anal st ff joints. The,.
medial oft oper to mildly sad surely. The mum et c:rd
by ilmra Ars ..ot tamporary or apparant only, bat coop
Rote up' ponnmeot.

Knit AAAAAA Comm op comm, coma. Aim
taus.% IT D 1,00014 PaLgosio Wpm—
▪ g. W. it Chemist fleorgeo•trvvt,
tg.too•iindsr.Lyne:— " I haw. bad isi•ny and most
&did d tnitioiooies in f f yens err, pOpUlat
hui f our torr4 reepswialgs towliausei
yelled upon me yestsr•isy, d .td that In 1.4
derived more lurnelit front Loooek's Wawa than Item
all tn• songn niod.einee which be bad wed for Ilse pm*
Ise sad twenty years. Eimo 1 otiher Cues *WWI,
nanartable hove bees reportad ; the ellleney el 11.
itmlieiee in thin district is solr_boinstil 2rbot
give i.wiant Mist to .4øi ..n. eonlateAlon, irvihrhr. so
.11 d•-orleri of OA bw.lh isnd Inns. To Notes. and
labile speakers they ans insalsable for clearing and
ado' Übe vole, Pao* la. lid., le. 111. end
11711rjer Woz. geed by all %void&