The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-10-07 00:00:00

THE CHAPTFM OF ACCIDENTS.

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MELANCHOLY COLLIERY ACOIDENT.—A sad accident
by!whieh, in spite of the most heroic exertions, three
lives have been lost, has just occurred at the Llanfynydd
Colliery, near Mold, Flintshire. The men had de-
scended the shaft in order to brick up the ground
which had been sunk, and which had been secured by
props from the previous day's work. They had not
been long at work when a crash was heard, and they
were buried in the brickwork, Three brave men
instantly descended by ek rope, and, at the peril of their
lives, endeavoured to dig out the men amid falling
bricks and water rapidly rising. Two of the poor
fellows were alive, and pleaded earnestly beneath
the rubbish, one in Welsh and the other in English,
that haste might be made or they would be drowned,
Despite the utmost exertions, however, the three men
bad to be wound up without accomplishing their object,
or they would have shared the shine fate. The pit W
then secured, and relays of sinkers worked incessantly
until the recovery of the bodies, on which an inquest
has been held, at which a verdict of "Accidentally
drowned" was returned. One of the men leaves a family
and very aged parent, and another a blind parent whom
he supported.
SHOCKING DEATH THROUGH SUCKING ARTIFICIAL
GRAPES.—MT. Humphreys held an inquest at Finsbury
on Thursday on the body of a girl unused Elizabeth
Ann Aralalla, aged 14. It appeared that another girl
having had some artificial grapes given her, she gave
them to the deceased, who sucked one, and spit the
composition into the fender, and was sick. A surgeon
was next morning sent for, but she died shortly after
his arrival, and on a pest mortent examination of the
body being made, it was ascertained that death was
caused by swallowing a portion of the arsenio with
which the ornament was covered.
PAIN C L OCCIIRRENE. —An accident Of a Vert pain-
ful description oecdrred at Frogmoor End, near Box-
moor, on Sunday evening. A young woman named
Elizabeth Rutland, aged 18, and a married woman
named Elizabeth Straton, aged 33, wife of a shepherd,
fell into a lock of the Grand Junction Canal at Apsley
Mills, and were both drowned. It appeared in the
evidence given at the inquest on Tuesday, that the two
women had both been, to Frogmoor End Church.
After the service the girl, who was a domestic servant,
wished the arepherd's wife to accompany her as far
as the lock-gates, which she would have to cross on her
way home. The night was extremely dark, and it was
raining hard at the time. The women proceeded
together in the direction of the lock-gates and were
never afterwards seen alive. In consequence of their
not returning to their respeCtive homes, the lock was
dragged, and the bodies f both were found, one in the
lock and the other just out of it. The lock was full of
water, and two or three boats passed through it after
the accident, and before the bodies were discovered.
Mrs. Stratton has left three children, the yoiingest
only thirteen months old. The jury returned a verdict
of "Found Drowned.''
SINGULAR °mu RHENCE; —On Wednesday evening Dr.
Lankester held an impost at the Lord Wellington
Tavern, Ifniversity-street, Tottenham Couet Road,
touching the death ef Edward Arinstead, a tailor, aged
34 years. The evidence adduced went to show that,
on Sunday afternoon, deceased visited a neighbour, two
doors from his own residence, and between eight and
nine in the evening he drank a bottle of ginger-beer,
and almost immediately afterwards drank off two
tumblers of cold water. He was immediately seized
with great paih, and Ills friends, finding him becoming
worse, retnoved him in a cab to the University College
Hospital, where he expired in a few minutes after
admission. The result of a post mortem examination
proved that the cause of death was from the sudden
bursting of • blood-vessel in the melt, from the strain
on the blood-vessel, (mused by rapidly swallowing the
ginger•beer and the water. A verdict was returned in
accordance with the medical evidence,
AN ALGERIAN STOISI.—S‘tif Rla %the 'Miley of
Boumerzong. near ConstaOlea, Was lately visited by one
of the most destrUctive storms of hail, rain and wind
cyst-known in that part of Africa. The storm passed
rapialy over Constantine itself without doing thUch
injury, but burst with indescrible fury Oyer the Cottntry
of Kroubm and the Oued-Tudnia, In the fernier tilace
not a Yestielo caltivation remains. The hail literally
cut all the growing crops to pieces, and the river of
' Ain-Guedjaou, swelled to a torrent, swept everything
before it, leaving a bed of mud in some plum net less
than three feet deep. Several hoilies *ere thrown
down, and one *onittn droWiled, At Oued-Tineuia and
S'Etifi the hailstones were of enormous size, and the
flood from the mountain torrents came down with
such rapidity, that a great number of Arabs assembled
for time market at the former place were soon breast-
deep in the water. Some of them took refuge on
large iron roller used for the roads, and weighing at
least six tons ; but in vain, for the water drove the
roller • distance of 1,000 metres, and all of them were
drowned. Ninety-five men perished at this place ;
and of 250 pigs brought for sale, only one escaped.
When the flood subsided the banks of the torrent
were strewn with the dead bodies of men and animals.
At Setif, not less than 100,000 tiles were broken by the
hail, and nearly all the game and small domestic
animals in the environs were killed. All the inhabi-
tants, forty in number, of a Kabyle village, about four
leagues from Setif, were drowned, and their houses
destroyed. One dead body was carried by the Bon-
Selain to Djidjelli, more than thirty leagues. During
the storm the cold was intense, and many Arabs who
had been carried away by the torrent were found
clinging to trees, and frozen to death in that position.

Tag " DAILT NEWS" of July Ist, 1862, in the article
on t'm International Exhibition, contains a long account
or the various watches exhibited by J. W. Benson,
with descriptiono of their movements, and ends by
saying—" In the matter of external ornamentation,
Mr. Benson appears to be determined to beat the Swiss
on the very ground which has so long been yielded
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building," J. W. Benson publishes an Illustrated
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which will be sent wart-free to any part of the United
Kingdom on receipt of two stamps. It contains a short
history of the art of watch making, with a description
of the various kinds of watches in use at the present
time; also engravings of backs and dials of watches,
with a very full list of prices, and it acts as e, guide in
the purchase of a watch to those at a distance, who
cannot make is personal. *election. Coll watches, sto
100 Guineas ,• Silver wsliches, 3tn (Jonas, 33 and
34, I.4µdgate p, *I: 1749.