The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-01-04 00:00:00

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is._.IIIARIE LANS, KONDAT. JANTIaIT
I.4;rtlltlaat add at priori of Ulla day week. Buslnew In
_bin* ratan at handy lamt week'. quotalloin,
inlisoZ7 Uthlater4d. Whitt you Mbar. Zzar. Oat
a".l Prke. Ussilitered. Flout 11,• 'Jag

1411°POLITAN

• CATTLE MARKET. JAL 4.
of chola herds was ; there leap a fair rhaeos, tod WOMB were aletionary. Kheep were rather
• I,l%_htquiry for calve* era. ery limited, and mice.
tod. roe% unaltered.
to.orel. 11,830 • .6.tepla.l.ll3l,:nbe, 17;:iii 2 :
be,1117;•8083;
'mires, IL *ketch beYd.;. ; trig heal .%te, 410 : 1640"
1.1057.
Beet. IL 6d to . 10.1: mutton, al. to a. ma.; too,
k et a a. i taa
od.; Pork. 46. &I. to Oa.

TERRip
AOCIDENT AT THE BRISTOL
THEATRE.
Zia RTHEN PKRSONS KILLED.
.61fful accident happened al the entranoe of the
"mire Otr Revel, Rristol. on Monday night. When the doors
.vied for the edmission of the audience to view the Christmas
Zit'Sliethe of: Robinson Cruse." a tretnentlees rush took
entrance to the pit and gallery Is approached by •
'"o3" few this roadway, fully twenty feet wide. In their
hlteen.-41.1he the entrance • large number of persons were
and temapled under foot. When the excitement
hat Mlayed, Ind the crowd in the rear had been
to WI beck It was found that seventeen persons luel
—two killed •
venti mit sou many had sustained injuries.
„_emematable on duty Mates that, seeing the pressure
ortia,‘""rl._ eed fearing its results, he mimed • cry of Firer'"
on,i. —40 P rush and muse those behind to retreat.
to have bee, effectual an far, for the crowd was
IlMost inamoillalelv but dill not before the terrible
had "mood. *
tihb`m
~, an _erowd again perserving. and obtaining entrance to
etre, the manager, being fearfol f creating a fresh
Panic, ti„,
with „Tait It bast to allow free admission, and to go on
ormance
crush was at Its height it is mid that • lighted box
pent.6.—mos was thrown oter the heels of the struggling Ma. of
This wan followed by n bundle of rags, rucnilifing
• k....'"Modkerehiefa getting ignited ; and then arose the on-
re !" The ttruggle now betwme desperate. Shrieks of
and children were repeatedly heard, and then from
- of the sufferers caner appealing and egonising cries of
,mn't push " trre,l ore ne !" " 1.0 ye let me go r tet ate out r Not unhemently came the apral "Lori have
ataltol._ upon me" and •• God ware my life . One unfortu-
" toto, after vainly struggling to maintain he ground close
to them who had fallen in feint of him, wet banal to exclaim.
"I cannot breathe :I must die amongst the red," his robe
th".rioff More and more feeble au he spoke' and on eye-whoom
of the mums:mho mw this man at length drop to the ground,
b. tread:tied upon by those who were thus forced by the
the crowd behind there to entsh out the life of •
Iltdted 61-1--'""Toolure Edward Lester, while in the midat of the
throng, saw • rope lowered from the slate roof in the Irvin' of the Ostrich hotel, and he and several persons were
"M• 111 heeled up from the crowd below. Amongst the hot
Dawns thw singularly reseuesl was • little girl, and then in
'Wm)) clutching the rope one of the throng below pulled it
M the Win& of Mow on the roof, and It wan lost. P.C.
o▪ aartend mer a boy down, and the people were walking over
the little fellow, who appeared to be dead. The officer
iraceeded. in seising the boy by the shoulders and arm, hut in
*tagan he was himself knocked down, and several persons
walked over him and the boy' but be was enabled to regain
Ina tea without being welotely injured. He carried the boy
10 the green-roool, wiser, with the aid of restondives the poor
little fellow recovered. Ultimately, with the amistance of
moveral civilians, the constabla forced the crowd back and
There • shocking eight revealed Used. In the middle of the
liemage lay Wine forty or fifty men, women, and children
some of them three or four deep—wine dead or dying, others
Wining. The dead were taken to the rdreshruentrocen.
Fourteen bodien lay stretched on the Boor. A glance at the
comma immediately told that the poor creatures had clung to
We with the utmost tenacity. The countenances of several it
he victims, however, were dm and peaceful and wme of the
hope looked as If they had tallest asleep ; hut the faces of other.
bore evidence that thew must hate suffered the most intense
affoo7. Elisabeth Hall, an old woman, was one of these poor
creatures who emsientlp (lied in terrible suffering. Her staring
071111, her widely extended mouth, the frightfully painful
%ItPremicin that rested on her features, end the clenched hands
Peered that she mode a strong effort for life. The identifica-
tion of the bodies during the night was most heartrending, and
especially was this PO in the ease of Samuel P.d.ter who, im
verognising his eon George amongst the timid, dropped to the
Vowed in a date of stupor.

Li3ll. OF Till PRAM
1. Mary Helen Sherwood, aged 16, domestic servant, 10,
Allred:hill.

• Bhomas Merchant, aged 19, at Mr. Locke's, baker, St
slassee's-back.
Z. Eliza Lucas. aged 18, 2, Manitlane, St. Philip's.
4. Patrick Donovan, aged I',?. Jacob-street, St. Philip's.
6. Alfred Kea, aged IS, Clark-street, Philip-street, Bed-
minster.
& Thomas Pearson, about 21 yeant old, shopman to Mr.
Seth Tbooms, china arid slam dealer, 10 and 11, Ifighatreet.
Deceased, • native of Blackpool, Lancashire, had only been a
fortnight in Briraolo
7. Samuel 11111, 'get 12. Lamb-street. St. Jude's.
8. John Davis, aged 1,1, 19, Loaer Castle-street.
9. Henry Charles Vining, of 11, Stanley-street, Eastortrowl.
10. George Potter, aged 11, son of Sllllll4l Potter, 7,
itedclll/
_Mead-hula

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11. Ellen Jana.. tired 15, dweller of James Jona*, carrier
between Weeteneuper•Mare and Itristol, Regent-Street,
Waidoneurerllare.
12. Sarah Ann 10111, aged IS, North-dreet.
11. Elizabeth hail, aged 60, Creft'ii-end, 81. Geer
Glouceeter.hire.
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14. Catherine Brewer. aged 16, worker at the Cotton
Factory, 4, A.hlcv•place, Kinpland.reml, Miura
15. Jo-eph Smith. 15, 9. l'humlx-dreet, Ilartmi•hill.
16. Charles Prinz. 17- Mill-lane. Hslntimiter.
17. William Samuel Alden, aged 21. ls, Little Peter-idreel,

I& Attn:.] Talbot, 14, Gruen-street, llotwell,
The inquest was Named, on Tuaday afternoon, fnr the
identlfkat f the bodies. At the theatre the spectacle
presented UNA not .4 so terrible a character as when we find
law the corpse., about half an Muir aher the accident. They
then lay iteliwriminstel3 upon the floor, the limbs of tome
beteg much contorted, and their torn clothing, and the
irty appeuratoe .4 their betels and teem, shorting tole.*
rag an extent they had been trampled upon. The 'sulk.
wow laid old side by site anti covered with a sheet, but
tracts of the druggle to which they had been subjected
MIN .1111 ameirent in their heApatteiod fare*, 41itheselh-1
,anti torn trarfnents. Tic name of each was ndkil in
eider, and wine relative or friend came foreara and identified
each of them In the pref., nee of the jury. After this sail duty
bed been performed, the Jury viewed the body at fletwells,
and the throe at the infirmary. Formal evidence 44 identlfica-
tbin RSA taken, and the inquest Nlee adjourned to this day
Thursday).
The inque4 was resumed on Thunder. The surto-ons
declared that death resulted more front fainting by the pressure
of the crowd than from being tr.impled upon. The fur,
rotunicsl a verdict of accidental dtath, and whilst MI
exonerated Mr. Chute from all blicm they m4,4:fled Oat
those in chew: f the doom had not lb ,ethought It, 'ton
;hem when the prinsure began. They abo eoulemmsl the
present entrant:a, and stur.mded that teo approw!he. should
made, with an an avenue between for policemen.