The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-20 00:00:00

♦1OTHI& ACCOUNT.

A Losestoblo sad lota accident, attended by
the ion of 'WO Item, !opposed last evesiag at the Item
Berne 03111441M0. The Rev. 0. H. Swim. w►o babel lab
rod Butertsall as a sherd, dollop VW MAN lossillelest
to laid the tot sealer et poems who leek to hem lido.
N shoot le lave a epode's dope' boat ler his so, mad. t•
the Watts, has marl al sass Hell at the Hoyat der-
rep audios se a tospeesep plea et worship. Yesterday
It we spool tee that pupae, mod, seeteitheteedhig Ile
iaeew in, it we dad et s lash, sod a quarto el ea
hoar beim*, Ifisie ineseaNd he the sesmassumest et

the evening service, something like 10,000 persona were oat-
side, kept there by the announcement that the ►all was
amused full. Superintendent Lund, of the Lockefields
pollee-station, informs u that the appearance of the gardens
resembled that when the Crimean banquet was given to the
Guards tome two months due, the gardens being one mess
of people.

He wse Were with twenty of his men, to be ready for any
emergency which w lmmena an anemblage might pro-
duce.

The serWee proceeded in the anal =saner, end was
about half over, and M►. Spurgeon had just commenced the
payer introductory to t►e sermon, when three or four men
rose in the body of the hall, and putting up their bands
called out something. Many of those present assert that
the word used was "root." Saperintendent Land, on
the contrary, says that the word was most distinctly
" fire." The effect, as may be imagined, i was terrific,
and the WOW of the female portion of the con-
gregation were beard outside. A rush was made to
the door; mad the iron balustrade, which wag let some
two or three inches into the geometrical stone stair.
ease, at once giving way to the enormous pressure,
end the crowd behind still rushing forward, up.
wards of one hundred persons wore precipitated into the
well-bole. Others jumped over the grand balcony into the
body of the ball. Still others jumped out of the firework
gallery on to the grovelled walks. The result was awful.
Lip to the time at which we write, eight deaths had been
reported at the pollee station ; and the bodies of seven of the
nfferere, six women and ene man, had been oonveyed for
identification to the workhouse of St. Mary, Newington,
near to Sarrerequare, between the Old Kent-road and
Walworth•eammea, The work of identification is yet far
from complete ; but we subjoin the particulars of what is
known:

Mn. Skipper, of 40, Dobson-tenace, Kennlogton—dead.
Harriet Johnson, plate of residence unknown, was taken
to the residence of Dr. Satherlead, in Sutherland-square,

sad died then.

Harriet Barlow, residence uoknows—dead.
Three fpusales, names unknown, were taken to the work-
house. dead. One of these wu twenty-form years of age.
Samuel Bard, of Berssondmy—dead.
A little boy wu identified by hts father and wee taken
home deed. la the confusion necessarily attendant oa the
awful ocenmense, neither the name nor the residence of the
father was amertaised.

Thee are the eight deaths. Minor am:ideate, bat stony
of a fearful nature, were numerous—so numerous as not to
be eseertained even approgimetely.
A middle-aged man, name unknown, resident is St.
Peter's-street, Walworth, a leg broken. lie was taken to
his residence by four gentlemen.
James Arthur, residence not known, a fractured leg, and
other Nana Injuries.
Thomas Pease, of Grange-road, Bermondsey, a broken
thigh.

Ellen Starch, residence aekoows, nightly isjorod.
Miry MCI, of 10, Mosaioalooorotnot, Kennington,
diphtly Inbred.

. .
Upwards of twenty eases were men by one of the by-
standers leaving the gardens, eone foe the homes of the
sufferer', others for the hospital ; end the saws person saw
at least twice that number lisping away, or waisted by
their Meads, having apparently received slight injuries in
the catastrophe.
A singular circumstance is mentioned by Superintendent
Laud. Notwithstanding that the iejuriss sustained by
those wbojumped either over the grand balcony or from the
windows of the firework gallery, a height of from 20 to 30
feet, were very numerous, and mazy of them most serious,
none of thee kid lest night resulted fatally. AU the do-
omed were brought down-stairs; they bad, probably, or
rather oestaialy, been crashed to death.

We bear that after the accident, Mr. Spurgeon wished
to ahem throe of the congregation who remained in the
ball ; sad that at length, one of his friends, a deem in his
church, shot his book, staled him from his tempormy
Aber this, a penes Rotund the steps, end .requested that
if any medical man were present, be would go into the
private room. Mr. Otway, F.R.C.S , bad already began
to render 'diciest aid, in which be ores sealouely misted
by Mr. J. C. Murphy, a student of Guy's Hospital.

Several hundreds of verfou articlu were left In the
chapel. Among thine were bonnets, hats, gloves, sticks,
unibrelliu, muffs, cad Bibles.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

The Mneio•ball was filled within a few minutes
after the opeciag of the doors ; and by haltpast 6 from 200
to 300 people, who could net obtain stanoing or oitting
room inside, had stationed theintelves remind the exterior of
the hall, bet within the pains. Service commencied at
the time appointed ; and for some twenty minutes all went
right. However, at a few minutes before 7 o'clock, those
two cries svhieh have so often proved fatal in lugs
assemblies were heard to hese, Ant from one sad
immediately afterwasds from several parts of the
bailding—the weeds " Fire," and The gallery is
tallies," at Ant whispered, were in a mooed or two shouted
in ageshiag seen* by a thounad voices. Screaming
and rushing of the most contused cad terrifying
description followed Own false, end, ea malty think, ma-
lignant alarm. The staircases were at awe cliched by
a dean stream of people, all tubing, or rather tumbling,
towards the plena of exit ; bat this was not the oily move-
ment. Hundreds rushed towards the windows, and dashed
through them oat upon the iron biloostiee that eurreand the

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Tho alum in the body of tie hall was quite aa peat.
The ocsepsnte of the benches is the ground door imagined
that they were about to be boned beneath the falling gal-

inlet. aid then wsa on

osoveoient to the

door: and window. Most of the latter open hoot top to
bottom, durerise, but were barred scram on this °curios.
However, neither bolts nor ban stopped the puicetricken
freed, but they jomped—men, worse., and children—
thread"' the dosed esesmeata, shivering sashes and glass to
atoms, sad presenting bleeding fens, arms, and hands. In
a manset or two after the drat alarm amass of people had
reached the lower landings of the staircase", sad the pres-
sen on the banana's became so tremendous that six or
eight feet of the handrail and metal supporters on the out
side of the bell gave way with a frightful crash, at a height
of some 12 or 14 feet from the basement. number of
persons were st once precipitated to the ;mini of
the plunge, sad is this fall sou lives wan lam.
At nearly the mare Instant the balustrade de the
slatruse at the eastern side also gave wisp bat
dartenately very near the ground—not Medi , than
du feet up. Here there war, of course, also a falai, a
number of people, bat act to so 'arises as cutest u at the
other side. The tries of the frightened and woesded wee'
ammo lend and piereiag, that they were beard not only all
over the garden, bat for a considerable distort." round the
asighbosthoods cf Walweeth ad lianningtcd..Alany of
the inhabitants*, those localities were themselves in the
hall at the time, very may others had relatives or friends
then, and fearing the wont. their coestaraistias was dread-
ful. Numbers rushed without bats or bonnets into the
gutless, ceding for their children, trothen, husband', or
wives, se the sus might be; and were met by a candased
suss of people. who thonaht that they would not be refs so
nag so they remained within the gardens, and were there-
fore dyne at the top of their speed. The gardens, with the
exception of the patch leading from the principal en-
truss, were la darkness; fee, though the interior
of the ball was brilliantly lighted, the crowds in-
side prevented the lights from being of any err
vies to those outside. The soarequenee was, that
the persons who rushed out through the lower wiadowaran
is directions the mast contrary to the one they wished Is
nub. Some of them ran late the lake, situated is front
of the panoramic view of Constantinople. Bat the
apparition of the girdles was melancholy in the
externem. Everywhere about were wounded or fright-
ened individual', some asking to be carried to the
hospital, others requesting to be allowed to be where they
wen, and the greater number calling for water. Persons
ran sheet ayieg, " Polies !" sod " Ara there any medical
meet bus 1" and anxious relatins went from place to pea
tone if these whom they sought were amongst the injured.
The dentine, of emus, added very considerably to the
unfasios, and It was some time before either dead or I
wended weld be removed, though the police on duty
showed very great activity is proemial; cabs for the re-
moral of the victims. In the midst of this saw several
ratlines applaud on the balmy surrounding the top
' stony of the betiding, and shouted to the polies to look
sharp after the pickpockets, adding that it WY some
of those villains who bad raked the false slums sat
so sawed all the mischief. Abut the setae date some
, thousands had retuned to the ball, wide is mid to
I held 10,000, ad the Rev. Hr. Spurgeon rommeecod
his 'inn= y .king his auditory why they hal nu oet
when a alum wee raised. and following that krdarroptery
by as lewdly es to whether it wee age their ouscemos—
, the fear of what would follow after a sudden death—that
had 'adage' them to do so. Hs thea preasedel Os say that!

he could not, of tonne, after inch an occurrence, preach to
them as he would wish, bat he would preach to them for
the usual time if they thought fit to remain. Here another
alarm and another nob took place, bat not to anything like
the same estent es the former. However, those who
remained were evidently very ill at ease, and it is no
wonder that they were so, for the cries that reached them
from the outside were heartrending. Many had bevels
separated from their friend' in the first great rush, and ran
fnntically about the gardens calling them by name, and
asking every one they met had they seen persons who were
quite unknown to the gre►ter number to whom Shen quec-
lions were addressed.

Under these circumstances Mr. Spurgeon brought the
service to a cosclusion, after a hymn bed been sung. The
reinsinder of the congregation then left the hall. A collec-
tion was made u they moved oat, sad certainly the rattling
of money.bozes sounded not a little strange on so very ma
lancholy an occasion, when some hundreds were screaming
and crying, and corpses were being removed from the scene
of so fearful a catastrophe.