The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-24 00:00:00

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT ABERDEEN.

A very serious accident took place in the flax- I
spinning inenutactory of Mame. Prichard and Co., Broad-
ford, Aberdeen, on Monday morning, about half.part ten.
It occurred in the preparing and @planing-room of the new
pateot-mill—a building of flve storeys, being filled with
spinuiug frames on the fourth and fifth storeys, while the
lower storeye were occupied as dry houses—the engine and
boiler being on the groped-floor. The hands had just re-
sumed work after breakfast, when a load crack was beard ;
and Immediately the flooring of part of the fourth
storey •was seen to be giving way, falling with •
terrible mash, and carrying the flooring of the
other two lower storeys with it. The fifth storey
seems to have given way about the same time ;
and the whole mass of machinery, flooring, iron beams,
'Woes, bricks, &c., fell too. There were some thirty or
forty women, along with three or four overseers, employed
in that part of the building at the time, but luckily most of
them had just time to make their escape to a part where
the flooring was still sound. Three of the workers, we
regret to say. were seriously injured, while, as we write,
there are still other three missing, supposed to be buried
among the dibria, and an active search is being kept up for
them. The three missing are—Margaret Johnston, aged
about 60; Lydia Carpenter, between 30 and 40; and Susan
Welsh, about 20. Those hurt are—Margaret Smith, 40,
fracture of the skull and arm broken; Christina Rait,
• young girl , fractured thigh and scapula, and other
severe injuries ; Elspet blowat, wound in heed and slightly
scalded by the steam, which immediately filled the whole
building. It is remarkable, considering the number in the
pl,ce and the extraordinary nature of the accident, that so
meaty contrived to tusks their escape unhurt. It is im-
possible to say u yet what was the cause of the accident.
The building io which it incurred was very strongly and
substantially built, with iron beams supporting the flooring,
and it was not very old. It is thought possible that the
foundation may have given way helm the great weight of
machinery contained in the building, the ground having at
one time been of a somewhat marshy mature. In answer to
inquiries made just before our parcel left, we were in.
formed that the three women buried in the ruins bad been
dug out. A sufficient number of doctors were is attendance
immediately on the accident becoming known, and those
injured were immediately conveyed to the infirmary and
attended to.—Scotsinan.

FSPLORION AT A FIREWORK MANUFACTORY.—
Yesterday warning, between the hour. of eight and nine
o'clock, an explosion took place at the factory of Mr.
Clitheroe, an artist in fireworks, Clitherow-row, Weaver.
street, opposite Peach street-hill, Bethnal-green, and sur-
rounded by dwellings of poor persona. Among the latter,
at the time of the outbreak, a fearful scene was presented.
Fathers and mothers were runuing in all directions with
their children and what property they could lay their hands
on, afraid of the powder magazine blowing up at the end of
the garden. On the police arriving, they found the house
nearly blown into ruins, from which came distressing cries
for help. They extricated Miss Ellen Clitheroe, aged 20
years ; Mr. John Clitheroe, aged 61 years ; and Samuel Pel-
ham, aged 23 years ; all most frightfully burnt ; and they
were at ones sent off in cabs to the London Hospital. Mrs.
Clitheroe was also reemed—she was not severely burnt. The
firemen by great exertions succeeded in saving the powder
magazine, but the fire was not extinguished until consider.
able damage was done. The cause is unknown, and the
property is not insured. The same premises were on fire
about six mouths ago.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN A LIVERPOOL ClRCti&—Mr.
Henry Delevanti, the trapke performer in Bell's Hippo-
drome, Liverpool, had one of his ribs and thighs broken
during his aerial display on Monday night. Delevanti was
going through the feats of Olmsr, when the knot of one of
the ropes slipped, and he dropped heavily. A wire rope
upon which Mrs. Delevanti performed broke his fall, or he
would have suffered even more severely than he did. No
time was lost iu conveying the unfortunate man to the
Northern Hospital, where be now lies in as ,avourable •
condition as might be expected. Delevanti, we believe, tied
the rope himself ; and as be considered it sufficieutly secure
to risk his life upon it, there is every probability that the
knot was good when he commenced his perforzosoce. Later
on, however, the strain, together with the effect of the
atmosphere, must have caused it to slip, and hence the
accident.

TonArco CHawngo IN CHURCH.—The Galt Re-
jormer says :—" A respected clergyman of Galt has called
our attention to the abominable practice of tobacco chewing
in church, adding, as lie did an, limner knew a place as bad
as Galt for this filthy practice.' We fear this charge is too
true, for in most of our churches we have personally felt
the annoyance. In most of them can be found a ' select
few,' whose jaws caw be seen going during the delivery of
the sermon like those of a cow chewing her cud, and every
little while the tobacco juice is squirted at the floor. but not
unfrequently the dresses of ladies receive a share of the dis-
agreeable liquid."—Turonfo Globe.
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