The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1877-10-23 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT - 200

LIVES LOST.

A fearful colliery explosion occurred to-day (Mon-
day) at Blantyre, near Glasgow. It is reported that
.200 lives have been lost ; but at present it is impossible
to tell the accuracy of this statement
[LATER TELEGRAM].
rp to the present time, only one has been got out
alive. The men were engaged in blasting, when the
explosion 4 tire damp occurred. The shock was so
severe, that the cages and appartus for bringing up
men, were destroyed. The one man brought up, says
the bottom of No. 2, wee full of dead bodies.

(Deism%)
An exploring party was at once organised, and six
deed bodice were recovered, but these were so fearfully
burnt that no hopes are entertained that there are any
survivors in the pit.
Numbers of women and children are crowding to
the pit's mouth, and the scene is harrowing beyond
description. The names of the dead bodies recovered
are Joseph Gilmore, William Campbell, Charles
Differs, Richard Lang, and Wardroper.

THE "JOKES" OF MEDICAL STUDENTS.

Medical Minlents who are in the habit of playing
" pranks" will do well to note the particulars of a
case which wax heard at the Shoreditch County Court
• few days ago. A livery stable keeper sued a
medical student for three guinea. for "disfiguring a
cob posy with lamp-black, thereby making her unfit
for use until elle was thoroughly cleaned." The plain-
tiff, it appeared, left the pony, whom natural colour
was milk white. outside a public house in charge of a
boy CM about fire minutes. On emetging from the
establishment he looked about for his telly hut could
not see it anywhere. In its place, howeser, was what
seemed to be another pony, " black as a beetle."
The boy who had charge of the animal assured him
that was his pony, but could give no explanation of
the sudden and remarkable change that had taken
place in its appearance. All that the boy knew
was that a gentleman had been " exemining the
pony" during the
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boy, who, nevertheless, adhered to his htatement; and
crowd mdlected, who added fuel to the plaintiff's
indignation by unseemly jests. The plaintiff still
stated that the pony had been changed; but on calling
it by its name the intelligent meature showed by its
recognition of its master a voice that it wm in truth
the pony that but a few minutes before rejoiced in a
coat of spdlem white -but, alm, how changed!
From head to tail it had been daubed with a coating
of lamp black, and was cons erted. as the plaintiff
informed the judge, into a complete guy; the yieerest
looking Animal you ever wow. She was before as
white as snow ; now she was as black as a coal." The
pony was taken home and thoroughly washed, but
caught a severe cold in the promos, and was enable to
appear in public for three days. Even then it was
impossible 0 to get the lampblack out of her, and she
shone like a beetle.- The Judge made an order for
the amount claimed, and the defendant, who, it was
stated, "I. well known in the neighbourhood for hie
mischievous pranks,- will, it is to be hoped, now
devote himself in earnest to the pursuit of medical
science.

4 from St. John's, New Brunswick, states
that IN ham been destroyed by fire in a suburb
4 lotle Wm, and 2000, persons thereby rendered
humb.
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