The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-11 00:00:00

AWFUL CALAMITY IN LIMERICK.

The Limerick Reporter gives an account of a shock
leg fatality which occurred is that city. About 6 o'clock on
Friday mornings cry of "Firs" was raised in Denmark-street,
acid • boy named Coffee ran to St. Michaels Church bell,
and rang it violently for the purpose of alarming the neigh-
bourhood. The watchman had left the street, and though
the morning was comptratively advaaced, there were
few person astir, and the fire, which appeared to have orW-
nated in we of the hock rooms of the house No.
had already penetrated to the uppermost front rooms, in
one of the windows of which Mr. Patrick Ryan. printer,
sod Mn. Ryan, hie wife, were seen in a state of di.tractsoa
sod despair, eats, aloud for help. Mrs. Ryan had one of
her four childreo at the window whilst she distractedly
called for help. The house is high. Is the cellar beneath
resides •pereoss named Hastings ; the shop floor is occupied
by a Mrs. Seta-knit ; the lower floor is occupied bye tailor of
the came of Nolan. Mr. Hickie,a hatter, sod his wife, occupy
the middle door, and Mr. Ryan sod his wife, four children,
and Mr. Charles Shine, the father-in-late of Mr. Ryan.
occupied the topmost door. How the fire originated
it is difficult to conjecture ; but it must have begun in
one of the middle rooms, as Mr. Ryan asserts that
when be was first alarmed, the fire was reeking its way
through the dour of his room, and that all attempts to
escape by the stain to which he sod his wife and tither-
in-law made as soon as they possibly could, were in vain,
they being driven back by the flames, which were rushing
violently up the stairs. After some time, Mr. Denis Qom,
who resides at the opposite side of Denmark-street, pro-
cured • ladder, which had been placed against Messrs.
Todd's concerns in Todd's-row, and by creditable
energy and vigour, be succeeded in placing it against
the ill-fated No. 22, and in ascending it be was able,
in the, face of the flames, to rescuo Mr. Ryan and in
bringing him into his (Quips) own house, where he was
found to be most severely bunted all over the body.
The police were oe the 'pot soon after the alarm was given
by the tailor's boy, Coffee ; but there were no aim:ism:es
at band by which an entrance could be made into the
hone, or an attempt made to cove the lives of those who
occupied the topmost door. The fire escape was not in
readiness till • fill hour after the destructive element had
onnibered its victims. In about au hour the fire was sub-
dued, and an entrance n.ade into the house. The remains
of Mr. Chas. Shine had bees already removed ; after a
march, the charred sod disfigured body of Mrs. Ilya', and
the bodies of the four children were found in the front
room—spectacles of indescribable horror—sufficient to chill
the blood of the stoutest.. They all appear to have falls*
victims without the slightest power of resistance.

-kTTENHANCE AT THE JCIICES' CHAMBER& --OH
Saturday Mr. Justice Mellor coocluded his 'Mugs at the
judges' chambers. when ha has been the " vacation judge
daring the circuits. and dwptssed of a great 'umber of ap-
plicstioos. His lordship will be ruocrieded this day by
Mr. Justice Shwa

Snuck:LNG A Irr•I It AT WOLVERH AtirTON. —Yes-
terday roomier. ►trout o'clock, • young roue named Perry,
who lives in \Yahoo's-buildings, Brickhe-street, WOIVar.
hamptoo, wee called up by his mother, who said that since
3 o'clock she had heard screams coudog from • house
in which • men named William Holland. aged
about 71. and his wife M►tilda, a few years younger,
lived. Going to the door, be heard groans, end when he
knocked some one inside told him to break open the door.
He and some neighbours did so, and toned the Loin, fall
of smoke. Is the pantry on the right band side they
beheld a horrible sight. in one corner was the old
man, shrivelled and charred in a fearful manner, quire
dead, and is the opposite sorer was his wife, groaning
and crying for water, and le • most shocking state.
The clothes were ell buret off the woman's back, and the
greater part of the nun's clothes were buret to • cinder.
The woman stated that her clothes caught fire while in
the kitchen, and she rushed into the pantry to throw some
water oe her clothes. Her husband followed her. cod
must have caught fire from her. A candle was found lying
on the floor of the pantry between them. The old couple
are known to have been addicted ►o drink, and they quar-
relled so frequently that the neighbours had named to
notice the couseqtmet disturbances. Oe Saturday they
had been drinking, took drink throe with them. and were
afterwards heard quarrelling. No *aim, however, was
bakes of them, until Mr. Perry was iodated to waken her
son, by hearths screams and groans issuing trout the hour.
An inquest will be held.
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