The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-15 00:00:00

FEARFUL ACCIDENT-A MAN AND A WOMAN

BIIIINED TO DEA 111,

One of the most fearful accidents which has taken '
place for many'years in Liverpool, occurred yesterday
morning, and resulted in the destruction of two persons,
a woman and a man, who were literally burned to death.
A small street, ending in a etc' rie-sar, called liaglan.place
runs off Athol-street, at the north-end of the town, and in
the immediate Vicinity of Great Howard•street. In a
house, No. 7 of Raglan-place, a man, named James Frowe
lived with his wife and children. Most of the houses in
this neighbourhood are occupied by several families, but
in this instance Frowe and his family had the whole
house. Underneath, however, was a cellar, which was
occupied by a man named Daniel M`Killop, an engine
tenter, and his wife Jane M`lieillop. This unfortunate
man and woman, whose burnt corpses are now lying in
the dead-house, appeared to have been of Very intemperate
habits. The woman is said to have been lying in b.-;d
drunk for several weeks back. On Saturday night she
had a bottle of whiskey on a table next to her bed, and an
nil lamp. The man Daniel M‘Killop was seen coming
home drunk, with a man living in a neighbouring
cellar, on Saturday evening. He went for a
short time into the cellar of his companion, and then
returned to 11;s own. It is stated that he carried home
with him a bottle of rum to drink. Frowe, who is a
joiner, came home on Saturday night with his wife,
entered their house and locked the door. Before going
to bed Frowe thought he heard a slight crackling, but
having searched and discovered no cause, he supposed it
to be a noise made by a little Skye terrier he had in the
room. His wife and he retired to bed in a room off the
principal room. About a quarter-past six yesterday
morning, his eldest boy, aged about 12, who slept with the
other children in a garret overhead, was aroused by a
crackling of fire below. Thinking it was his mother 1
lighting the fire, he came down into the principal room,
and there saw flames bursting upwards through the floor.
He ran into the bedroom and alarmed his father and
mother. Frowe jumped up, and as quickly as he could
huddled his wife and children into the street. He then
ran back, in the hope of saving some of their little pro-
perty, but the room was so filled with flames that, after
having, had, his hair, whiskers, and face singed, and having
been struck on the knee by a burning fragment, he had
to save himself. and leave all his effects to be destroyed.
In a few moments the whole house was blazing, the stair-
case falling in just as Frowe got out. The street:was quite
empty, except for himself, his wife, and children. He
called " fire "as loud as he could, and was about to run
for aid when he saw by the red glare through the door
that the cellar was also filled with flame. llp to this time it
had probably not occurred to him that it was here the
fire began, and not in his own house. A neighbour coming
up at that moment they made an effort to burst into the
cellar. Several others gradually came up; and at last an
entrance was effected, when a hideous spectacle presented
itself. 'The fire had blazed upwards through the floor of
the room above, and the bare walls of the cellar rendering
it now comparatively clear, they saw the body of a woman
in a half-sitting posture partly) supported by a wall,
just where she had fallen when the bed was burned under
her. Her arms and legs were burnt off, and the trunk and
face charred beyond recognition: Just near the door the
man was found lying on his face. He had probably
crawled so far in his stnpified and drunken efforts at
escape, and being unable to get farther was burnt to
death. His sides, back, and legs are described as pre-
cisely resembling over-roasted meat. When sufficient
assistance had arrived—the reels from Lightbody-street,
and police superintendent Murphy being soon on the spot,
the fire was extinguished, and the charred fragments, for
little more remained, of the dead man and woman were
conveyed to the dead-house. The deceased pair are stated
to have been in tolerably comfortable circumstances, and
to have had money in the Savings' Bank. The house
belonged to Mr. Sefton, of the marble works, Virgil-street.
The occupant of the house, James Frowe, a very intelli-
gent man, is a heavy sufferer by the event. Every article
of property he possessed was destroyed. Besides the
clothes of his wife and family, he had a chest of tools,
worth £36, and severallother articles of property which
the fire consumed or rendered ♦alueless. Ile and his wife
and children got into the street with nothing whatever on
but their night clothes, and in that condition the woman
and children were sentioff, as soon as a cab could be got,
when the first horror was over, to the house of a relation
in Bootle. For a considerable time they had to stand in
the street until they were taken into a neighbouring
cellar, before arrangements were made to get them con_
veyed to Bootle. Frowe was for many years the master-
carpenter of the Haymarket Theatre, in London, under
the management of Mr. Buckstone, and only gave up that
engagement in consequence of an accident by which his
leg was injured. He arranged the mechanism of the first
pantomime performed at the Haymarket. In this capacity
he received several written testimonials from eminent
actors and actresses, which he kept in a book and valued
very highly. Among the autographs it contained were
those of Miss Cushman, Mr. Buckstone, 'Miss Reynolds,
Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and many other
distinguished artistes. This book, which poor Frowe
valued more than many other articles of his property,
and which testified to his artisan skill and respectability
of character, was of course destroyed.
An inquest will be held this day upon the bodies of the
sufferers.

HORRIBLE TREATIENT OF A GIRL IN
PETER STREET.

AN AWFUL RUFFIAN.-000 of the most frightful pieces
of cruelty we have heard of for some time, took place yes.
terday morning, in Peter street. It appears that in the
forenoon, the people in the neighbourhood heard cries issuing
from a house in tha street, whore resided a carter known to
be a violent man. A policeman was called, and, on entering
the house, a frightful sight presented itself. Rose Anne
Boyd, the stepdaughter of the man, a girl about ten years
of age, was found on the bed in her night dress, and the
brute standing over and lashing her with a whip most
furiously. He was at once taken into custody and the child
conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where, on examination,
it was found that her body was one miss of shocking bruises
—in fact a most horrid spectacle to look on. She is in a
dreadful state at present, and if she recovers at all, it will be
a long time. The ruffian will be brought up pro ji.owea this
day at the police; court.
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TMPHOED WRITING INK.—What a delieioua treat it is
to be hledt With free, flowing writing ink. We have often
been disposed to quarrel with our very finger ends when
compelled to use some of those abominable quasi-fluids
called ink. Mr. E. T. Hall, of South John street, has pro-
duced an ink, which we have tried, and we do not hesitate
to pronounce it one of the best kind we ever used. It flows
freely from the pen, and is amongst other things distinguised
by its affinity and intensity of colour. Northern Daily
Times, 24th October, 1853.—501 d in Bottles, 6d, 13, and 2s
each.—Advt.
AN INSTRUMENT FOR CORRECTING THE EBROR3 OF THB
NEEDLE.—Mr. Ralph Reader, an American gentleman,
exhibited, at the Underwriters' Rooms, on Saturday, an
instrument bearing the above title. The following is a
description of it from Dr. Locke, of Ohio College :—This is
an instrument, which is a combination of a universal dial
and a chronometer, by means of which he is enabled to take
any horizontal bearing in any latitude, at any time of the
day, by bringing the shadow of the gnomon to its proper
place. The gnomon revolves by means of the chronometer,
so as to perform one revolution in twenty-four hours, and
when the instrument is levelled and elevated to true latitude,
and adjusted at the meridian, the gnomon pain's steadily
to the sun, which it follows in its course. And conversely
if the instrument be levelled and elevated to the latitude of
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so far as its circles and their motions extend. For example
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the altitude and latitude, or having the declination and the
meridian given, it will give both the time and the latitude
at any hour and at any place. The instrument is con.
strutted on mathematical principles, and would undoubtedly
be useful in high latitudes, where the magnetic needle
traverses badly or not at all. Its accuracy depends wholly
on the correctness of the chronometer or timepiece by which
the index or gnomon is moved, and upon its adjustment to
the meridian of the place. It would also be useful perhaps
in ascertaining approximately the local declinations of the
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TiiE LATE TERRIFIC STORM AND FLOODS-

FRIGHTFUL DETAILS.

in our publication of Saturday we alluded to the fearful
gales which prevailed during the early part of last week.
We now append additional particulars, from which it will
be perceived that Cumberland and Northumberland suffered
most severely.
Carlisle, we are told by our cotemporary the Pat-
riot, published in that city, was, on Sunday sen'night,
visited by an innundation to extensive that very consider,
able alarm and danger Were caused to the inhabitants of
Caldowgate, and to all whose dwellings arc aituated upon ;
the banks of the then overflowing rivers, Eden, Caldew,
and Petteril. Great damage was done to property adj
rin-
ine the rivers, and herds and flocks have had their
numbers considerably diminished by the Alio Is. At
Armathwaite the dead had reached its climax by
four o'clock on Monday morning. Some of the
inhabitants, had voluntarily got up to watch the
deluge, whilst others were summarily ejected from their
beds by the sudden obtrusion of the water into their sleep-
ing rooms. The sound of the rushing torrent over the Bsy
of A rmethwaite was like the continuous roar of thunder.
The cellars and lower apartments of Armathwaite Castle
were filled to the depth of six or seven feet, causing much
injury to the furniture in the lower rooms. At several
other places down the E len considerable damage was done
to houses and cattle. The villaee of Crosby was nearly
swept away, and a Mr. Ball, of Holmeg tte, lost twelve or
thirteen head of cattle and some swine. his turnip fields
were nearly destroyed, and his winter sown
wheat so covered with sand and wreck that it
will he impossible to save it, and the quantity of
valuable manure that was washed away is incalculable.
His hay and corn stacks were nearly submerged, some were
lifted off their stands by the flood, and deposited at. a con-
siderable distance from the places where they originally
stood. At the junction of the Petteril with the Eden, the
whole of the surrounding fields presented one vast sheet of
water as far as the eye could see. Most of the hedges, some
of them very high, were completely covered, and the leaf-
less branches of a tall tree here and there, alone broke the
surface of the waters, On Monday evening the waters were
still rising, and they were only prevented from overtopping
the bank next the racecourse of Carlisle, by the
energetic labours of a number of spademen,
who cut large lumps of turf from the inside of the bank,
and others piled them along the outer edge, supporting
them, where the water pressed most, with planks and large '
stones, ultimately they succeeded in repelling the disastr-
ous incursions of the intruder. From an inspection of the
ruins, no less than 500 or 600 persons have suffered in
Carlisle. In Bread Street, Byron Street, Shakespete
street, and other streets runninginto one another the water
stood from four to five feet deep. In Caldcoats it actually
reached *in some places, no less than eleven feet. The
weavers have sustained a great deal of damage, in the only
means they have of obtaining subsistance—their weaving
looms and webs. Eighty tons of coal, and twenty blankets
been distributed to the most necessitous. Penrith
too, was visited by a severe flood. The Millimeter
was rarely ever known to be so high. The waters of the
Derwent ro'e, overflowing its banks on all sides. The road
at the Goat, betwixt Popcastle and Cockermouth, became a
running stream, nearly two feet deep, and was rendered
totally impassable. On 'Wednesday morning the market
people had to be conveyed over in carts, and the factory
operatives were unable to get to the mills of the Messrs.
Harris and Graves ; several of them in turning out in the
dark walked very unexpectedly into the water. The mills
were consequently at a stand still for two or three day!.
The postman was conveyed along the street at the Goat in
a phaeton, from which he delivered the letters at the doors
and windows of the inundated inmates.
A correspondent, writing from Greencastle, in Northum-
berland, says that looking along the Newcastle and Carlisle
road, you could perceive the dashing cataract, bearing with
it wreck of va,iatis kinds, with an irresistible impetu-
osity, baffling all opposition. The same party also
writes —" We cannot describe the altered appearance of
everything about Greenhead and the districts that the water
has swept over. Nothing could we see but the tops of trees
here and there peeping up. On Sunday the morning opened
fair but dull ; ere nightfall, a repetition of the farmer days'
work was visited upon our devoted heads. In the evening
the trains bound fcr Newcastle and Carlisle were stopped.
linrortunately, the engine running the Carlisle train, stuck
fast opposite the Coulson's Arms Inn, and all the art that
Jack Dunn could invent would not stir her from the position
she had taken up. Monday morning made its appearance
gloomy but not raining,when the Bywell waded up to Green.
head to extricate the distressed engine, but she failed to
perform what she en willingly attempted ; the powerful
engine Hexham was brought to assist her, and we are in_
clined to believe that if the Northumberland had been two
stone heavier they would both have been lost."
Westmoreland did not escape. At Appleby the flood
was most destructive. Oa Sunday evening, as early as 8
o'clock, the fields and gardens adjoining the banks of the
Eden were all under water. Viewed from the Garth Heads
the scene presented was awfully grand, one perfect sheet of
water surrounding the town and threatening destruction on
every side. Horses, cows, pigs, &c., were being removed
with unusual alacrity to a place of safety, and in Bridge
street, Chapel lane, and High Wiend, the inhabitants saw the
propriety of olearin, their warehouses, shops, and rooms OH
the ground floor. Nor was this precaution unnecessary.
By midnieht they had all several feet of water in them,
and in some houses and shops, notwithstanding the
efforts which had been made, considerable damage was
done to goods and furniture. At daybreak on Monday
and as the water receded, the scenes which met the eye were
truly painful. Passing along Bridge street, the houses and
shops presented a deplorable appearance. Looking from
the bridge, the destruction and ravages of the water pre-
sented themselves on every side ; trees uprooted, hedges laid
waste, gardens deprived of their fruitful soil, and covered
with trees, sand, and dirt of every description ; and on the
opposite side, you found a great portion of the road still
under water, other parts broken up, and almost impassable,
and buts and tops of uprooted trees strewed about.
An immense quantity of stones, soil, &e., were thrown
together in one great heap; the right, the strong
store wall of the day before, was levelled to the ground, and
most of the materials of which it had been composed washed
away. In chapel lane the houses suffered much, being low,
and exposed to the water rushing across the Vicarage Croft,
and every one of them would have from three to five
feet depth of water in them. In the low end, too,
the water attained a great height, and the dwelling
part of the school house and other houses in the vicinity
were heavily inundated. The damage done cannot be
easily estimated, many persons will be heavy sufferers, but the
injury done to the roads and streets, which the corporation
will have to sustain, will, perhaps, be the most serious.
The districts surrounding Appleby have all more or less
sustained damage which it will take both time and money
to repair. Subscriptions have been entered into both at
Carlisle and Appleby for the relief of the numerous
sufferers.
The town of Llanwrst, situate in the Vale of Conway,was
completely inundated during the late gale and heavy rains.
The whole of the vale, which lies between Carnarvonshire
and Denbighshire was one vast lake, and all communication
between the two counties was cut off. Several of the
streets in' Llanrwst were' totally impassable, and on Sunday
the chapels' were unapproachable, and remained empty
during the day. A few people attempted to go to St.
Marrs church, but bad to be. conveyed through the water
in care. Houses were deluged to the depth of several feet;
and great losses in furniture and other property sustained.
A hattet'a establishment was flooded, the hats floating in
every direction. One, old man awoke from sleep to find
himself sailing in his bed, followed by a large water jug.
The Contents of two surgeries were destroyed. So great
teas the' fury of the tempest that the foundations of Plas
Helig, the 'residence of Mr. Thomas Williams, brewer,
were in' a great measure undermined, by the force of a
small stream which rolled against it, and the embank-
ment of a mill reservoir adjacent was totally destroyed.
When the waters had subsided cartloads of mud had to
be removed from the groundfloors of almost every dwelling.
The p rt of Plymouth has also,during the last week,been
visited by a succession of southerly storms, of a very severe
character, which have happily been unattended with any
serious damage in the harbour, either afloat or ashore.
There' are, however, in the ,channel, outside the port, sad
indications of shipwreck and- probable loss of life. At
Bovisand, to the eastward, the foremast of a schooner of
above 100 tons, carried away by the deck (say 30 to 40
feet) with cross-trees, &c., was found on Monday, and the
next day, on Wembury beach, the foreyard of the same
vessel, at Noss the topsailyard, and at Mothcombe her
bulwarks. Near the Eddystone several iron-bound square
deal cases, supposed to contain British manfactured goods,
were observed floating about on Wednesday morning, and
on Thursday afternoon a ca-k of foreign brandy, picked up
by a fisherman, was delivered to the authorities at the
Custornshou=e. Two similar casks are reported on board a
Cornish fishing boat riding in Cawsand bay.

DISASTERS AT SEA.

The disasters to shipping have been most severe. Intel.
ligence has been received of several wrecks off the Cumber-
land coast. Among others may be mentioned the schooner
Lady Huntingdon, of Maryport, and the brigs Swift. of
Whitehaven, and Derwent, of Workington, all of which are
complete wrecks, but the crews are saved. The schooner
Teneriffe is on shore at Sellafield, about eight miles to the
south of Whitehaven. The crew saved themselves. On
Wednesday evening the ship Leander, Captain Kidd, with
a cargo of sugar, from Madras for Liverpool, put into
Whitehaven in a very leaky state. Twelve men were sent
off by Mr. Jackson, Lloyd's agent, to bring the ship into
port, -and when they got on board they found the vessel
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