The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-24 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS.

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. —A young girl, the daughter of
keeper Lucas, of Blacknest, was engaged in picking
acorns from an oak tree, when her foot slipped and abs
fell, but striking a dead branch, which had been pointed
by age, in her fall, the point of the branch entered her
body above the hip bone, passed quite through her, and
came out above the opposite hip bone. Hanging head
downwards for a kmll-minats), the weight tore away the
lower portion of the body, making a frightful gash 13
inches long, and she fell to the ground. The mother of
the poor girl was sent for, who, on arriving, and seeing
the horrifying sight, fainted immediately. The patient,
all but dead, was conveyed in a wheelbarrow to her
home, and medical assistance sent for. Dr. Sandford
was promptly on the spot, when be found on examine. ,
tion, that the intestines, although protruding, were un-
injured. He placed about • dozen stitches an inch apart
across the wound, gradually got the parts together, and
by his unremitting attention and skill the patient is now
out of danger and able to walk about, with but a little
contraction of the abdomen as the result of the acci-
dent—Surrey and Hants News,
LOBS OF A STEAMER AND 34 Livite.—The Liverpool
steamer Columbian, bound from the Mersey to the West
Indies, has foundered at sea. Thirty-four of the crew
are reported to have been drowned.
DREADFUL SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT. —On Thursday
morning a fearful accident took place in Great Win-
cheater-street, London through the fall of the upper
part of an extensive building in course of erection for
Mr. Alderman B. H. Waterlow, whose range of premises
facing London• Wall, and known as Carpenters' Hall,
run behind up to the new buildings. It appears that
noon various portions of the new building facing
Winchester-street upwards of twenty persons were at
work, when the cornice, which it is said was of great
weight and overhanging the line of tbe front wall very
considerably, gave way, the massive atones in their
descent striking the main stays of an evidently firmly-
hound scaffolding, forcing down the entire framework
on the roofs of the houses on the opposite side of the
street, and hurling the poor fellows engaged in their
several vocations to the ground, literally dashing them
to the earth. The dust having cleared away a Mt& an
examination was immediately commenced by the police,
which resulted, it was understood, in four bodies being
found, and five other maimed workmen, who were at
once conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. It Is
feared others are missing.
A WOMAN KILLED BY FALLING FROM A TAMIL
On Tuesday an inquest was held at Birmingham respect-
ing the death of Mary Ann Cook, aged 4L On Friday,
January 13, the deceased wns standing on a table to
roach something from the ceiling, and was stepping on
a rocking chair, when it suddenly gave way, and
deceased sustained injuries in the abdomen. Assistance
was procured, and Mr. Moylea, surgeon, of Islington,
was quickly in attendance, but all efforts to save
her proved unavailing; she never rallied, and died on
the following day from the effects of her injuries. The
jury returned a verdict of " Aocidental death."