The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1874-03-17 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AT THE ROYAL
PROCKSSION.

rnhsppily the progress of the royal party and
procession in London was not unattended by loss of

At Cbaring-cross, near the lions in Trafalgar square,
• temporary stand, which had not been certified by Mr.
VaManly, the superintending architect for the Metro-
politan Board of Works and was consequently or •
very flimsy nature, fell at about 12.30 with a tersific
e...ish, carrying with it • struggling mass of some tweaty
or thirty people. The police rendered praiseworthy
assistance in rescuing the unfortunate sufferers,
who were immediately conveyed to the Charing
s "ea Hospital, where they were attended to
by Mr. Leonard, the house surgeon. Amongst
others it was found necessary to admit as patients
were :—Margaret Iturloidge, fractured leg: Alfred
Seott, severed arteries of right hand ; 113ry Ann
Wardell, fracture of collar-bone ; Benjamin )taker,
broken wrist; Sarah Warren, broken leg ; Jane Band,
dislocated ancle ; Samuel Coatem, disloonted uncle;
Thomas Liddell, concussion of 'pine and frictured leg ;
John DRViS, broken wrist ; Charlotte Davis (wife of
John Davis), concussion of spine; Walter Blake, c.m•
mission of brain ; John Williams, fracture of right
thigh; James Davis, lacerated wound on right hand ;
ltiollanl White, dislocated :uncle.

Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a
number of women with infants in their arms, in their
anxiety to view the itrocession got mixed up in the
crowd adjacent to horthumberland house. When
the signal was given that the royal corilor was
approaching, the 'rough " element which pro-
dominated in the crowd forced a woman, named
ldsry Archerley, into a doorway. Such was the
pressure, that she was unable to extricate lier,elf,
and being forced down, her baby, seven months old,
was pressed to death. A similar fate befel another
child aged 20 months, the daughter of Mts. Eliza-
beth Gibbons. the wife of a carpenter.

At St. George's Hospital it would appear that the
list of casualties comprised, amongst others, George
Leggett, private in the 6th Corbineers, thrown
from his horse and leg fractured by • kick ;
William Chance, private, Dragoon Guards, concussion
of spine, through horse rearing and falling back
upon his rider. Seven minor accidents were admitted
I,ito this hospital, as were also three women with
broken arms, and • boy and a man with dislocated
socks, the latter occasioned by an attempt to climb
the park-railings, near the corner of l'ark-lane: An
aged man, named Hennessy, hawker, was knocked down
by the crowd and, spite of the efforts of several of
tie bystanders, was trampled upon and so severely in-
jured that he died on his way to the hospital.
Previous to the arrival of the procession in the Mall,
the crowd amused themselves with snow-balling. The
police at first gocal-liumouredly remonstrated with
the ringleaders, and it was not until an old gentle-
man, whose name could not be ascertained, was struck
In the face with • mixture of snow and gravel, inflicting
• severe rut over the eye, which led to the apprehen-
sion of two of the most prominent of the offenders,
that this horseplay was stopped.

In Whitehall.p.bu;e, just before the arrival of the
procession, it snowed somewhat heavily, and •
ory of " Umbrellas down" was raised by the roughs.
One gentleman, who stood in the front rank, refusing
to comply with the request of the crows!, was immedi-
ately set upon and subjected to considerable violence.
He was eventually rescued by the police, and conveyed
away in • prostrate condition, and • medical exami-
nation proved that he had sustained the fracture of
one rib on the left side. A host of minor accidents,
consisting principally of contusions of a superficial
nature, were attended to in various quarters of the
route of the royal procession.

Ur. Edward Mall, late M.P. for Bradford, Is re-
ported to be In a feeble 'tate of health.

At • fire hi Southwark, London, Alice Barnes, five
years of age, received inch injuries that she died on
her arrival at the hospital . . .

A commercial traveller, in an action just concluded,
at Belfast, against the Irish North-Western Railway,
for £5,000, has been awarded £1,500 compensation.

There is no present foundation for the report that
Mr. Hamilton Fish will take the place of General
Schenck as United States Minister in this country.
General Schenck a at present In America on leave of
absence.

Rumours are current In Dublin that before Easter
Term Mr. Ormsby ,Q.C., wiU be promoted to the vacant
seat in the Landed &tete+ Court, and Mr. May, Q.C.,
will succeed to the office of Solicitor-General, Mr.
Purcell, Q.C., becoming Castle Law Adviser.
From correspondence which appears in Baroderes
News Letter, we gather that an attempt is likely to be
made to induce Mr. Disraeli to restore the Irish Churdi
surplus, or • great part of it, to the Church. It is sail
that many of the Home Rule members have promised
to assist such an attempt.
Viery or rue EXPZROR OF RUSAIA. —We under-
stand that the Emperor' on his approaching visit to
Ragland, will come over in his yacht the Livadia.
Some military displays may be looked /or and agreed
naval review will probably be held at POrtemouth.—
Pod.

At the Westminster Police-court, London, the
magistrate has granted a summons against a pawn•
broker for damage done to • dress while it was in
his possession. It had been pledged for 125., and when
the applicant sought to redeem it she found it full of
boles made by moths. The magistrate stated that •
pawnbroker was l
labia iable for any damage done to proper",
charge.

The Tielawns Jury have been paid one and i bell
plum gm day for the 188 working darn of the tri."•
They have sasepted their cheques under protest, lotrlcif
been led to expoot two guineas rash per dal.
On Tharedai evening a man named George Gordon
went out too old in the parish of Cabrach, Aberdeen.
shire, for the perpose of posehing, when he was shot at
by another poseher, who mistook him for a hue. He
lived only m few hours, and never make- The Poacher
who fired the shot ass aroak.heireod.
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which govern the operations of digestion and
entrium. and by a *angel application of theft* pro-
of Ira' Wend omen, Mr. Rope has provided
oar• breekfast tables with a delicately flavoured beam-
... which may en's as limy heavy doctors' bills.—
Fi;4l gismo. Made simply with Bolling Water
or mak.—Rold by Grocers in packets only, labelled—
" Jason arra sod Co, acorccPctltio Chemists, tk
Threadneedle Streot, and 170, Piesedilly ; Works,
Masten Road, lAttficit."
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