The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-05-08 00:00:00

IT AT SEA.

f Plymouth, landed at
in Scott and 10 men
ipencer, of South Sbield,''
was burnt in the AtlsrPl4
ire. The barque wasbo°9
• Tayport, Scotland, wtb
to. She left Aquillas
1, all tcld. Fine wearVf
.experienced until the
led away. At 8 o'clock Pei
•IE charge of the deck 59' h
t forward on duty. On
strong smell of fire, 09.,
oke issuing from the eel'
er examination he saw tbet
L alarm was at once ratee,adi
t deck. The pumps
a short space of time 14
ing poured down the ell
ppeared as if the effort 4 °
11 in extinguishing the
Joke increased in denslty's,9
tth out of the chain trap
in and mat, had not bee
asks were filled with water,
)ortunity offered it,elf ove
r removed and the wat!,l
hatch being put on 1105'
L,
s repeated at intervals b°
3 gained rapidly, the swot°
he heat getting unbearable'
proached preparations wer.B
ro of the officers with tbele
handkerchiefs desceadl
pose of saving the log
unable to do so, the 8(130"
They were able to e 516,
her provisions, which
The captain and crew lef‘
the 21st of April id 19ti
le fire had then got a
being enveloped in stoke
, through. About 10 minute:
) flames were observed 9
1 rigging. The fire qniC
?s the masts and yards verde
r fell, and within an
. the side, the mahn
s. This apparently riPP9,,
rnmediately a trernend°:,-
3 bold to a great beigui;
Iy, and the ship was nesrl
dten the crew lost sight
ary Spencer the crew 0.0
3 ix miles off heading ti
fling vessel, but becallai.t,4'
v nulled to the ship, ',chic
barque Maria Antoinette'
adeiphia for Anistelr:ts9''
,w were taken on board tb:
[le captain explained
Id smoke from the burniPee, '
was unable to come yr;
of the wind. It waoe.r,4
tt and his crew foil In
rards night a heavy easter)!
ed by high seas. so bO5:
weather, and there 15 l'he
had not already stint
tt
The Maria Antoire
iday night to the Coqd°l
being landed at Plyincuti
Sailors' Home where tbe.a
Le captain and first
yarded to their homes!,
n. secretary of the ShiPd
The remainder of the ere'
• tt
No reason can be g've
fire on board the 10r1

!IRE IN LONDON'
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;t. James's, WestininFier,
, Oxford-street, an incluei,-0
of the three men
which occurred in Des-
- morning.
nembered, occurred nt:'
ree CompasEes, kept 191,5
e men who lost their 111'
Lnd the potman.
ieputy coroner for the giesA
luiry, which was attena
m behalf of the Gerfos;
chaff of the Metropolit-of
aptain Shaw, on becialf
;fide. The deceased ve.re;
who was killed by thrOilt
A' in the absence of
tailor, and Wilhelm De'-

tity of the bodies hscilig

s medical man in practic:
evidence to the effect tli%
an lodgers were very 019cej
had evidently been calls
the charring °eel-11.14'i;
stated, in ans xer
Li cases of this ebsra6
aoke very quickly.
[lord of the house, 30°56:1
aller, and formerly earn!,
icense at the Three
sisted of cellar 3, in vinl
re stored. On the groullt
bar parlour. On the Or:,
:d a back room. On t'sg-
ooms, one for the witog.l
sr for the nurse and cbalci
lore were three rooms, 1131,e
dgers. Two of the thr)
I only one of these
in it. Oertel and
le kitchen proper vrs9:::
was turned into a nurse',;
ne in the bar-parlour, g
:ullery. The witness Wl'a
hing he had in the hous`;
ittings. He had
before. He owed
wers and to the distille/
gaged. The fire occurre't
Phe house was shut Ill' f:0
:ed at once The wit
nd this he did at 1 o'cloc;'
e had closed the outell
some of the gas, but cool,l
the other lights, but oti`
I before he went to
T at the meter at nig'ji
cond or third floor, and /'.4
used candles. There
and one burner was slikg
generally put that out, 5r
aess could not say whetbteo
it out before he went
of gas before he went 1;
in the evening in the
,ms, and he thought tb,s
.e in when the family W 0
in the bar parlour the"
t it was not in the grate.
renville, resident rnedic9,o
Taal, stated that on
I brought to the boll",-5
a the morning, Øe
'ere were some slight 1711',0
orearms. The spine Ifrt
idly injured. The bretoa
broken. Death was catise

icer of the Metropolitl
le fireman who had cha,,n,,e
on the morning of the?',
e. His station was
is place on the morning it
cape in Golden-square. 0
to the witness that t'ii"e
)rning in question,
%red at the fire about Jo
was informed that he 7' 0
had absconded. Ere ej
that morning, and P;ig
since. He was a P;l:if
I had friends at Carw;
brigade authorities
d no power to search 11;6
proofs as to his beloneb

t Frederick Samuel Reece
he precincts of the coat,'
done, without, howe've`
le coroner then said tl",Ey
that a fireman was abso'
ant time it would be neceir
37 in order to obtain: cio;
a regard to other point,.re
law and Metropolitan 'l;5 i
bropolitan Board of WorPi
ace in their power to
Fry stated that theY C,ehr;
3sistance they could ia 1"
moiled the inqu;ry