The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-28 00:00:00

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT TEWKESBURY.

On Monday afternoon inr4ft an accident occurred at
Ton keshary,whidi hearlaresell • pain fel 'enmities throughout
the counties of Wessman sad Gloucester. Toe firm of
Messrs. Rise std floss, of Tewkesbury, who deal largely ia
eons and coal, hes warehouses on the quay at Tewksbury.
Oa* of these has three rather low stories, each of which
I rerun one room. It is an old plane, but seems to have lately
been partly rebuilt and pet into good order. The three
Soots have large doors opening to the frost, for convenience
of moviegoers into or out of the building. The first floor is
reached by • mcvable ladder on the outside. It appears that
..Monday there were about 1,000 bushels of wheat stored on
*sant floor. No fe .rs seem to here been felt as to the ability
of*. floor to sustain this asuman weight. The two stout
beams which ezteeded from see side of the building to the
ether, aid earned the joists, an,:eared quite sound and
(*Wahl* of burl"g any quentity of grain that could be
steered In the room above. One of these was of oak end
the other of deal, and both showed no signs of fault or
Makisese. About ball-put two o'clock on Monday, Mr.
Ream Ries, ono of the lone, after etattiog with Mr. Prior,
surgeon, and a group of other acquaintances, weal along
Quay-street and entered the lower story of the building. A
foreman labourer, named Wm. Newman, wee in the some
is.., and mother labourer mimed Scott. Whits, • boy, wen
litho room above, ea the top of the • heat. Some string beteg
erisated, Scott was to fetch some, and he wasjust leaviag
the buildieg whoa the first floor tell in with a tremendous
eresb. He was ,track violently oa the arm, end drive.
dear out of the door by the felling wheat. Mr. Rice and
• was as were eempletely buried in the wheat, sad the boy
WM* mass sliding down on the top of the grant towards
Mil ANL Seen extricated him in an instant, and made
NA Me alarm that • oonsidetable number of labourers,
IllsehMeis, and others were immediately collected, sad they
set about digging out the two unfortunate portals who
Wage Necklet beneath the wheat and the ruins ot the floor.
It took about tea minates to extricate the men, and when
May were found it was diecovrad that life wee taloa la
beta. Blood wee &rang from the ears of Mr. Rice; and,
as be bad bun extricated from under • beam, it ems pretty
pliOs that fracture of the skull bad taken place. Newnan*
bed is evidently died from suffocation. The floor had
Meat 27 tons of grain upon it, and this was heaped the
highest about the centre of she room. The beams, though
Zrently strong and sound, were really in • bad condi
The deal one 'poured to have lost much of its
nalinalna quality, and bad broken through about the tient»
mftbeett sly great length of splintering. The oak one had
• shaky portion, "bleb was ceneeeled try whitewash before
the accident, bat which weakened its strength to • teattal,
Silltinit. Tars beam bad also broken through near its
On Tuesday the inquest on the bodies was held,
sad a verdict was returned "That Henry Rice died from
• Imam in the skull, and William Newman from being
saturated in the wheat; and that both deaths womanised
by accident." The jury recommended that the premises
where the accident occurred should he sufficiently pupped
sad cramped to reader them permanently 'mgrs.—Wor-
cester. Berate!.

M. Kossuth is to lecture under the auspices of the
local Burly Closiag Assosiatioa, at theTowa•hall, Leicester,
on Thereby, Not. 27. The subject he hes chase is "The
polltiol stale of Cgalissatol Serape."