The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

y of Messrs. Hay,
Airthor innniries

were 'remanded to Mo:

lay, on the •

.ppliotition

`;aced in the eas

thC magistraies agreed

.1 for Their appearance on that day. Roebuck in
of Ll 5 each, and Birtles in two sureties of £lO

WATCH RonirEnt.--,4 female named Fanny
=milted to take her trial, at the 'next Quar-
on a charge of having,- at half-past two o'clock
robbed Frederick Robinson of his watch.
—John Rowley appeared in an-
swer to a charge preferred against him, for keeping pigs in
an improper place, in Booth-street, West, Ilulme, by which
a nuisance was created in the neighbourhood. The Town
Clerk appeared in support of the complaint ; •.Mr. Bent, so-
licitor, was for the defendant. It was stated that the
defendant had removed.the pigs, and did not intend keeping
any others in the yard in which he. had previously kept them.
A nominal
that
of 10s. was inflicted, with the under-
standing that the fine would never be asked for, unless, the
nuisance, which had become very offensive to the neighbours,
was repeated.

Owen vi

S-vISANCI

TERRIBLE DIBABI

4T PRESTON

One of the greatest disasters which ever spread consterna-
tion throughout this town, occurred on Monday night, in the
fall of the liooi of a, room containing nearly three hundred
people, The ultimate consequences of this fearful casualty it
is impossible at present to anticipate ; but this may be stated,
that one young woman was killed on the spot, and from forty

injured, many of them

to fifty other people more or less -__,
seriously, and several, it was feared, mom..
stances connected with the accident arc as follow

The citcum-

Monday is the day on which the turn-out factory hands in
this town receive their weekly allowance in lieu of wages_ from
the trade committee. For this purpose they are classed in
divisions, each of which is paid at a different place. Last

night a body of card-room hands, between 200 and 300 in
number, assembled at Mr. 'Worthington's, the Corporation
Arms (near the Corn Exchange), to receive their money.
They were directed to a room at the back part of the premises,
approached from the yard by a flight of stone steps

mensions of this apartment, at a rough estimate, are about
25 feet by 20 ; the boarded floor being supported by a beam
passing under the centre. Underneath is a lumber-roorn.
The operatives flocked in aoati after 7 o'clock, and by a
quarter to 8, abOut which time the distribution of the money
commenced, the room was densely packed.

arming crash, instan-

A few minutes before 8 o'clock an a
taneously followed by piercing shrieks, attracted the attention
of persons in the vicinity of the Corn Ex.elange, and they
immediately repaired to the back premises of the Corporation
Arms. whence the startling sounds emanated. Lights having
been procured, an appaling spectacle met the view. It was
found that the beam above mentioned, unequal to the
unwonted pressure to which it was subjected, had snapped in
the centre, the result being that the floor parted Immediately
over the beam, precipitating the crowd of people into the chasm
—a depth of about 12 feet. Language is inadequate to the
task of conveying anything like an idea of the scene presented
by this dense mass of human beings heaped together in appar-
ently inextricable confusion, and suffering from jejuties of
almost every description. To drag them out through the

doorway was a work of no little difficulty, and

ttivtily

copied those who took part in it about half an hour

cries of the wounded were most heart-:

•endinfy,

:the floor had parted it; the centre Eke. a

It appeared th
pair of folding doors

The cons

uence was, that; those