The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-19 00:00:00

THE EXPLOSION NEAR OLASOOW.

The Glasgow Daily Na says:—"The intelli-
gent., up to 8 o'clock last ()limb!) night does not
add anything of material eon:some, to what has been
already stated. Owing to the iu.eure condition of the shalt
them is an unwillingm ss on the part of the men employed
to prams el much further till the ti..cessary repein have been
made. We have heard it stated be some esp.rienced miners
that the pit being on the, any attempt to a.!..r Ise present
(-nurse oft he air draught,which is now traversia a the most di-
rect course between the Victoria shaft and t!:., Free-trade or
ventilating shaft, would hose the etfeet of driving the large 1
quantity of tire damp collected in the curious ruaideationa
of the workings upon that taut of the pit which i, at pre-
sent burning, and produce another and more tremendous ex-
pla-ion. It is quite t, vain that it will he a not le hot!, of time
awl danger to ,eon r the bodies, and no reason alde hope
can now he entertained of finding the unhappy nun alive.
Th., attention of the proprietors and managers of the pit
has be.n 'unremitting. In feet, we belie se Mr. Niven, the
manager, has not left the scene of this unfortu-
wit, rtiamity shire it mewled. The bodies of
the tan feUow-worktre of the mien w!no -sere taken
out alive were recovered with considerable ditneultv, and
the fire-damp, in cunsequence of the want of ventilation,
arisirea (runt the explosion, has gained RI Milt that at pee-
iwnt it would he quite inn/male to sq.r.sich the spot
'rim nee those belie. were taken. The eneets of the wpbs.
Plow ore very visible ;mad the mouth of the Free Trader
pit, the hedge. in the vicinity beim/ comma with soot, a...
In foe:, th• whok place presental a ruinous appearance."

EXPLOSION AT A COTTON MILL-

FOUUTEEN I'ER3ON3 KILLED.

The borough of Stockport was the setnu of a very
sad I. ron M lay evening, through tll. „.'anitin of a
s• ,ut looter in tie cotton factory of Mr. Ilea 4 Manual,
by which :1 large amount of property was ihotruyed, and
fourteen or fifteen of the workpeopl•• were killed. The
mills of Mr. 31ardantl are situate almost in tat centre of
tlw town, on the Cheshire bank of the Itiver rwy, ono
are• very extensive-11w epinnin t, weaving, unit
bleaching all being earned on here upon it large scale. The
utire work. corer a very large an adhe buildings enclosing
an Irregular quadrangle about 110 ytitle in length. unit unp-
in r, front 20 to 40 in width. Ont. face of the Intiitliat Minas
upon the Weer Mersey, at ele north-west end of :he quad-
rangle ; and the principal of thew buildings to the river
was six 1411Tepi high, :alit stood upon a tunnel, through
which water flow toll for turning and other tvirpowes.
This was called the aid mill, and the various ROon were
filled with machinery fur carding, spinning, anti weaving.
In the miihUe of the qua:draw:4e too tarn,. steam lroilet.
olio I, (nit under toyer) whir's were: used for the parterre of
heating a untidier of smaller boilers, in use for bleaching par.
About half-past 5 o'cloek on Monthly evening, whilst
th.• hands acre all at work in the mill, one of these boilers,
a huge eyliudt•r, 40 feet bong, and about 12 in diameter,
wei,,hing 11 tuasatitil having its fire in the ecutre Mom cad,
mold. nly gave way from the pressure of nem.' it contained,
roe from the immense bed of brickwork in which it had
to 11 ti X tl,anil.hot liko an arrow along the quadrangle, a di.-
case ofreom into 15 yards, plunging through the wall of the
old awl lofty mill minor &serif; d,wher, it exploded, scatter-
log death and destruction all attentil. 1 he hoillT penetrat.il
through n well of i1•111/1.11, thickness, about 12 feet. destroy-
ing a large potion of that trout of the 6:tiding, mid
causing portions of the floors and machinery to
hall through 116 the top of it. To add to the
calamity, bellwr many of the hands oat kilkd could be ex-
trirteho, the boat r, whilst earrial a ma-s of fir, wit's it, set
the building in flames ; and these spreading w ith great
rapidity cosupletcd the stork of destruction. Tice whole of
the, portion of the building was ilk-trot.. . leaving only
three of its walls standing, in about au Mow from the time
4,1„. Tti, hand. ‘ll,l did not fall with the de-
struction rowed by the explosion of the loil••r and wate•d
being buried in the ruins, were of course plated iu Cartul
jeopardy, and it is not known how many sit' them e.t.al. it
a ith their liees. SUM: .4 them hoped through the win-
dows faring the river into the waters of the Mcp.,..y, blue
min and a boy had tie courage to hap from tar windows
0( to • sixth story, and alighted in surety in Tilt' water; but
another man who voaytal ;he fearful 111-11:1 did not 1..1..
'int but etttching unions! a projecture woad It. :C ..,most
iottithe etre on, antl w as kill il.-Thernaine-tentet ~ttntied.lett
the fireman woe killed. People were at work all Monday
night and during yestonlay in the roil, • of the mill, warehina:
for bodies, and up to noon titre:oollWD wire taken out dead
awl badly mutilated, n. I Mary Makin, Aim (video, and
11-thec lAdo.. The iiTtllllll2*/* name I. John i•tiller. 'fwn
men wt re also found de ad in the ruins. it trued Millions
Barth', y and John llowlentom. Be-ides these, two other
laapv, had here discovered, and it is live or six
yu t remain in the Mill.. About 11 thousand hand. are (.m-
-14,1,1 in tin whole of the mill, but tett above ail or 110 of
, thes • were at work in that portion of the building d•wtroyed.
i 'the rause of the es.•losion of the litter is not known. It
*as quite a new
street, of 30 horse power, high pressure, calculated fur a
preoure of 5011 r, to the squares inch, and had been worked
at 2sellsa pwssure, but is .:aid to have ben going at 211 bas
lITTSOUTr 1111/.11 the explosion occurred. Whilst the boiler
was c wried by the force of the expleesion to a
distance at forty yards in One direction, the part
of the matt riels tit the tin-place and bricks in which it a.,,
set were mattenol in an opposite direction, destroying pent
of the walla of a portion of the mill 2') yards distant, let off
to Mr. Stewart, ruanufacturer, and the windean of Mr.
l'hsyttin's cotton 'still. A woman in Mr. Stewart'. blowing-
rooms was stntek with 14 brick and brolly hurt. Some por-
tions of these materials, however, were tarried oeer build-
ings :al to 00 feet high, and fell in the park, at two hundred
yards' distance. The amount of property eh stroyed is esti-
mated at 5,000/. The ttiwit's tire-eughte did much towards
extinguishing the lin• and preventing it fret extending to
the larger portions of the mill ; but MT. MX.,::1341 had an
apparatus which W/1. very efficient for this purpose, con-
sisting of six hose, through which innovate Tolanwa of
water were forted by the machinery of other portions of
his mill. The inquest was timed for yesterday evening.