The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-23 00:00:00

3Ertianli.

INCREASED ACCOMMODATION & REDUCTION
OF FARES.—LIVERPOOL & BELFAST.
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, The splendid Iron Steamships
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BLENHEIM AND WATERLOO,
Are intended to sail in JULY. as under (with or without a pilot),
from Liverpool every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday;
from Belfast every Idol day, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday:--

FROM LIVERPOOL (CLARENCE DOCK).
BLENHEIM.. Wednesday, 2 ird July ....12 o'clock, night
WATERLOO . Friday, 25th July .... 4 o'clock, atternoon
BLENHEIM.— aturday, 26th July .... 5 o'clock, aftfrroon
WATERLOO .. Tuesday, 29th July .... 8 o'clock, evening
o'clock, evening
B LEN HEIM.. Wednesday, 30th July ....
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CABIN FARE (including Strward's Fee), IN
DECK or STEERAGE, 3s.

Apply to Messrs. OGILRY, Mooass, GaErmaY. and Co., Ingram-
court, Ftnchurch street, London; Mr. JOAN WALKER, 77A,
Market-street, Manchester; Messrs. R. and C. LANGTRY, Belfast;

LANGTRYS & CO., Water-street, Liverpool.

FATAL EXPLOSION AT PRESTON.-TWO

LIVES LOST

On Monday morning an explosion took place at the new
mill of Messrs. }lorrocks, Miller, and Co., by which the
engine tenter and his assistant (the oiler), were almost instan-
taneously deprived of life. The engine-house is situated in the
front part of the building, and is fitted with a pair of condensing
engines of seventy horses' power each. The boiler-house is
opposite to the mill, from which it is some eight or ten yards
distant, and it contains six boilers, five of which were working
at the time of the explosion. The steam is conveyed from
the boilers to the engine by a large pipe fifteen inches in
diameter. Near its junction with the engine, the pipe is
fitted with an equilibrium throttle valve, the bursting of which
led to the accident. No one was in the engine house at the
time of the fatal occurrence, but the engine tenter, James
Parkinson, and the oiler, Richard Slater. About three
minutes to six o'clock, just as the engine was about to be
started, a terrific explo,ion was heard, and on some of the
hands proceeding to the spot, they observed large volnmns of
steam issuing from the doors of the engine house. As soon as
the steam would allow them, the men entered the room, -where
they found that the urper part of the throttle valve had been
blown off, and the loose fi3oring, covering the valve, splin-
tered into atoms. The oiler, was found in the dip of
the wheel, a depth of fourteen feet, into which he had
either fallen or been blown by the force of the explo-
sion. In his fall his forehead had come in contact
with one of the segments of the wheel, and he had
received a wound which in itself would have been suffi-
cient to cause his death. The engine-tenter bad no doubt
been overtaken by the steam, and when found his left
hand rested on the edge of the cylinder, his right hand clutch-
ing the wall. Both men were of course quite dead and
dreadfully scalded, Parkinson being completely parboiled, his
skin falling off as his body was being removed. Both
men were old servants of the establishment, Parkinson
having been connected with it for twenty years. He has left
a widow and three children. The doors of the engine house
were shattered to pieces. An inquest was held, when after an
investigation of several hours' duration, the jury retuned an
open verdict that the deceased had met with their deaths by an
explosion at the mill of Messrs. liotrocks, Miller, and Co.,
but that those gentlemen had done all they could to provide,
by good machinery, against accident.

BIRTH

On the 02nd inst., at 57, Boundary-lane, West Derby Road, the
wife of Mr. Robezt Inglis, master of the steamship Alps, of a
daughter