The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-07-09 00:00:00

ACCIDENT:3 AND OFFENCES.

TIIBRE MOLDIEU DROvtliED.—A most sad scene wan
witne......ed at Scarborough on Suuday. Three men of
the teitli Regiment, now at the castle, went to the
" Holmes," a rugged and dangerous part of the castle
rock, on the north side, to bathe. The place is foil of
quicksands, from which accidents have several limes
resulted, and the three all fell victims their bodies
being carried away by the tide. The *LI event cast a
gloom over the town, the visitors and others atisembling
in great rum:hers as soon as the accident became known. '
rATAL QCARIIEL.—bri irpitott pAI been held at
Manchestzr on the body of John arr. Oft Saturday
evening he went into the office of the Piumill Ironwork,
in a st.ite of intoxication, and called one of the men
named John Flemings. a thief. Hemings, irritated at
the epithet, pudied him with both hands, and big load
knocked against the window sill. Parr again made use
of the mese word, and Heminp then ran at him, and
pushed him out of the door into the street. lie fell on
the flags, and hi, herd struck violently against UM
kerbstone. heveral perions went to his as.-istance, rtid
he WA% taken home ; bit, or. tt.,.. way 1.0 repe•tedly
exclaimed, "Oh, my poor head," and an, 11 after reach-
ing home he died. Mr. Barlow, surgeon, made a post
molten examination of the body, and found that
deceased's skull, which was unusually thin, had been
fractured, probably by the fall on the pavement.
Hetninga was taken into custody, and was present at the
. .
iii•tue.i. The
,inty reteried it verdi.t of..Man•laaghter''
agaio.tt Hotting.o and the coroner ennimitwl loin for
064 at the assizes. Ths deceased man, who was thirty -
fire years of ago, has left • widow and Iwo eltildren,
one of tbetn only a few days old.
i. lirita rnDIMS A PAWNBRoICCR.--On Worinead e
Bavarian named Slotiville, or Moult,!, was Aar,/ , at
Ifarlborouglestreet Police-onurt with obtainitir IP
1 from Mr. Attenborough, the pawnbroker, under the
1 false pretence that two casks, which contained in .bulls.
! only salt water, were filled with choice port wine. The
oase was gone into at some length, and the magistrate
said it was undoubtedly • case furs jury, and he Icini;
miffed the prisoner. Another charge was then pre-
ferred against the prisoner of ob,sitting from Mr. C.K.
Le Forest, of Margaret.viltas, Peckham, by false pre-
tences, a bill of exchange for kW, some months ago.
i The prisoner was committed on this charge also.

FALL Or A RAILW•Y TrNNIL.—A dreadful scaluent
occurred on Tuesday evening oh a new line of rail-
way which is being formed near the Rowsley terinines
of the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, aed Midland
Junction Meiaway and the fashionable watering town of
Buxton, by which ire men and a horse were killed, and
several others received serious iejuries. The facts of
the case, as they were gathered from a visit to the spot
ere as followe :—A tunnel is being formed about WO
yards below the ancient Flail of Haddon, in Derbyshire,
and between three and four o'clock on Tuesday after-
noon shout 17 men were at work in it, *bee the
centres, upon which the stone arch bad been fortned,
gave way, causing the massive stono work to fall lown
into the tunnel, and burying utder it several of the
workmen. The greatest consternation prevailed, but a
goodly needier of men being at work on the line, Mime.
diets: and active steps were taken to estntatte the poor
follows who were under the Wiwi.. This work Was 11C-
c01a1.1L,Lol by !ix o'clock the same evening, but we
regret to state that four of the men were dead when
taken out, and the fifth lingered until Me o'clock, when
death put an end to his sufferings, both his legs having
been dreadfully inaugled and broken, and his head fear-
fully bruised.
Tat CLAY CRONI4 Aocineur.—DisoovEar 07 TLIZ
BODIES.—Four of the twenty-five lemma* whew' lives
were sacrificed by the inundation of the Clay Cross
colliery, were found on Thursday at noon. Their
names are Francis Bradley, Joseph Wilbraham, and •
man named Woo& They were in • date of nudity,
and near them was part of a home which they had
killed with a spike used in the pit. The hind legs of
the hone were cut away, and portions of the animal
hail been divided amongst theni, as though they in.
tended to eat the flesh, but there were no indications
that any had been eaten. On proceeding about twenty
yards further they found the body of • boy named
Taylor, also naked and dead, and near him was the
hind leg of a horse, which lie hail concealed under a
skip used for loading coals into the wagons in the pit.
The clothes of the men were laid on the pit Boer, as
though they were going to rod. What is more remark-
able, is, that one of the men was found to have dread-
filly mutilated hunself on the lower parts of his
person.
SINGULAR DRATH or A flott..—A FOOLISH Via-
, Gier.—Oß Monday afternoon an inquest was held, near
, Barnsley, on the body of Sophia Field, a girl just turned
thirteen years of age, whose body was found on the
previous day in the canal. ft appeared that the girl
lived with her grandmother. The girl started about
j five o'clock, and was seen by a young woumu, named
I Uottliaril, going in the direction of that part of the
I wind where the holy was found. Nothing more was
' seen of her till the body WAS found the next afternoon.
The Coroner said there was no evidence to show how
she came by her death, end, if she committed
suicide, she was of that age in which else could not
be held responsible. The jury, notwithstanding the
remarks of the coroner, returned • verdict of " Feb.
deme.“ The poor child was buried the same night
without any ceremony. The sad cam, and the verdict
of the jury, has caused no little excitement in the
I neighbourhood.
RAILWAY AcCIDENT IN Fa.tece.—Railway aeridents
I are not frequent in France. A serious one, however,
is announced to have occurred at La Reole, in the
Bordelais. It was caused by the collision of two trains.
, The information as yet received states that the engineers
and hreuien of each train, together with 20 travellers,
were wounded, but not dangeronidy. The two locomo-
iie...: sml ..Ilhl waggons wars chattered to pieces. The
prefect of the demirmuent, on being acquainted with
with the accident, immediately proceeded to the scene of
the disaster.
Breast Boitee Exetrestoss.---The constant loss of
life froin the eaplosiou of steam 'boilers owing to defec-
tive construction or Gerdes' and inefficient manage-
' nient becomes every day ruore serious, and requires
that some effectual means should be adopted to put a
, stop to those frightful (occurrences, or at least to guard
j against their increasing repetition. We have this
• wick the painful duty of recording two terrible &cel-
ldents of this nature. The first took place on the
London and North-Western Railway, about four miles
i from Rugby, on Thursday night. A powerful locomo-
live engine hal taken down the Irish mail train (ruin
I London to Rugby, where a supply of water was given I
to the boilers. The train then proceeded for four
miles down the Trent Valley line, when the engine
exploded, inflicting frightful ii.juriea to the driver, •
Post-office clerk, and several pimengers, caused by the
sudden stoppage and break down of the train. An
ininienee destruction of property also took place— the
engine and boiler, with everythiug belonging to the
atructure, were broken into thousands of piooes.
The noise of the explosion was distinctly beard
both at Itegby and Nuneaton, and engines,
with ac..iatance, were spec-lily sent froni both
'lace's. The driver and stoker were found mat the
bottom of the embankment, dreadfully scalded, and
the stoker was al) greatly injured that it is stated he
died at a village to which he had been taken. The
Post-office clerk was dashed with exceeding violence
from one end to the other of the Post-Mike carriage
in which he was, and lie was reinoved along with the
eneine driver to the Royal lloapital at Birmingham,
where they lie in a hapless state. Medical assistance
quickly arrived from Rugby, when it was found
! that four or five passengers were more or lees
injured, amine of whom were taken to Birmingham,
I while other"' returned to London by the mail train. The
second accident happened on the premises of Messrs.
Shrubbs. India-rubber webbing manufacturers, mu
Holton. While seven of the workpeople were waiting
admittance on Thursday morning in the boiler-house
, the boiler exploded. whereby six of the number were
, seriously scalded and otherwise injured, and one young
j man to so fearful an extent that he expired six hours
, after his admission to Bt. Bartholomew's Hospital.