The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-23 00:00:00

(From the Ifinwheatar Guardian of this day.)

During the greater part of Saturday Mr. Simpson
and Mr. Stewart, two of the partners, were occupied in
paying a house-to-house visitation to the numerous bereaved
families, and furnishing them with eullicient money for their
present wants. This melancholy task wan fulfilled in the
meet hang and liberal manner. The water of the engine,
sent down into the piprt at the rate of 230 to 300 gallons per
minute, fa goerany.conaiderd to be the beet and most
likely step for extinguishing the flames • and the great confi-
dence was expressed that the result wouldi soon be apparent.
During yesterday (Sunday), from an early hour, the road
leading to the scene of explosion was ointinually thronged.
Omnibuses started from Barnsley crowded with passengers,
sad although the South Yorkshire lino due not run trains
on &today, the inhabitants of Sheffield and the Chesterfield
coalfields on the one side, and on the other those of Bede,
Huddersfield, Wakefield, and Doneaster, sent forth their
thousands, whilet every sort of vehicle capable of going upon
two wheels wascalledinto requisition. During the day
that could not have been fewer than 30,000 persons present.
The appearance of the works was the emu as usual, with
the exception that the small opening in tho cupola emitted
only a very small quantity of light smoke. Mr. Coe informed
oar warrespondmit that the thermometer showed that the heat
wee if anything Was than on Saturday. evening, but he
mid not say Men en attempt to get into the pit would
be nude. He was of opinion that, as there could be little
doubt Met the fire was still raging, any attempt to open the
pit atM only be at the risk of another explosion. lo show
the peinthl and devastating effect of the awful oeeurrenee, it
mg he Aged that in the row of fifty homew etunding about
Mpude bun the works, ninety-one of the Late residents
fya k tie pit, whilst the houses ere tenanted by forty
waikaly ads widows.

A BURGLAR SHOT BY A CLERGYMAN.

The most daring case of burglary which ever took
glees is Derbyshire occurred between one and two o'clock=
y morning last, at the residence of the Rev. J.
Nodder, of Marsh-green, Aehover, about right rutin from
Chesterfield. The house in which the rev. gentleman resides
stand. by itself, in a secluded place, about half a mile from
the v. illage. Mrs. Nodder slept in a room in front of the
hall, end Mr. ?fodder in en apartment at the beck of the
building, sofjoisiag the serene bed-room. A young baby
about EMU weeks all slept in a cot in Mrs. Nodder's room,
bet it awelenbetween cue wed two o'clock. Whilst Mrs. Nodder
wee rasa Nssi I • it, das bred a none, which she first thought
wee one red by as baited stirring a hie in hie room,
sad she took as tether notice of it. In a minute afterwards
she hoard the nets again, and went to the window in her
leisrems, aid drew the blind a little on one aide, when she
saw erasure of a man outside the window, and close to the
Meke was in her night drew, and immediately
beck, put on her pilippera, lifted the baby
oat of the cot with one hand, and rushed out
of the room, dialing the door after her, and holding it
in hen hand. While she was doing this six of the lower
pose of glade in the window end the centre framework were
meshed, sad two men entered the room through the win-
dow by mann et • Mader, which they had procured from
the stmek-meil *tains the hone. Alm Nodder held the
door loth she was overpowered, when else rushed into a
pomp ea the Oda and locked the door, leaving the bur-
ette laMened Is the room. They were provided, however,
with a "jemmy," et meal crow bar, end with this instru-
ment they brake the panel. of the door and unlocked it, and
wished into the garage communicating with the bed-rooms.
The first room they entered was that occupied by a lady
named Miss Heeler, a niece to the rev. gentleman, who was
so terribly alarmed that she lifted up the lower sash of the
window, and jumped out into the yard, a height of 14 feet,
with nothing on her feet and in her night gown, and in this
state of partial nudity she ran for three-quarters of a mile
into the TWA's, to the rectory bowie. After escaping from
bar room Mrs. Hodder went into that occupied by her tins-
esd celled out " Papa, papa, there's thieves, and
ako~fi needer em :" She had locked the bed-room door
saw her, el Mr. Nodder jumped out of bed and
armed hawed: with a pair of large horse pistols, which were
loaded, os the tap of a cupboard, which contained the rev.
getdielleen'el phem The burglars outside called nut, " Now,
lade; bow bk, same on ; they're here." Mr. Ne who
was in the ream celled out, "If you enter hero ddal'll shoot
you.," The Wears took no heed, but Prised the door
open, and she of them entered the room with a black mask
over hi* fir sad a black gown on his body, which covered
his clothes. He led a candle in his left hand, which he held
down tomtit the lower prt of his body. Mrs. Nodder,
who wee greatly alarmed, said to her husband, " Oh, my
dear, give them what they want, or they'll murder ns." Mr.
Mahler Alga about three yards back, and said to the man,
" I'll give yen whet you want," and he tired one of the pistols
at the ma, mid *sabot entered hie abdomen. The burglars
now made eyeesie retreat, and as the man ran the shot
fell teem 10 eisenes. They rushed into a bed-roam, and
jumped thetregli a window, taking the glas and framework
with dam Miry bad to alight in the yard, which was about
fourteen feat from the ground, and adoining the window
through width Ms Haag had jumped a 'Ayrt time before.
Mr. Nodder meg the seem bell immediately, which brought
about a doom parser to the piece, sad a March was borne-
teinstituted for the wounded sus, as it wee believed
lt wee so crippled with the shot, and the leap through
the window, that he meld set weeps from the neighbour-
hoed. le emotion Ina also gime M Mr. Holmes, superin-
tendent ceestable of the district, sad also to Mr. Radford,
of the Chosterfteld borough police, both of
=lteadeisrainute investigation of the premises. The
burglar who had been shot left traces of blood in the
' direction la which he had run, and the marks of
blood and els& on the window through which they
bed Irpotl Mk se doubt that either both or one of them
were set rely wt. A large yard dog which WWI turned loose
at nights mob se Warm, it having been drugged.
marks were Well from the hall across the flower garden,
and in the direttlent which they had run by Mr. Radford,
Mr. Milan, a eeteiZ niegistrate, who reiviilee Dear, end Mr.
Nodder himself, la • Odd about 200 yards distant Mr.
Radford teed a mask sod a deem which had been used as •
diagaleezilyl does ethos wore found during the morn-
ing. showleg that et least four persons
wen • reepipd ia the bergleey. Mae Hedoy, the
Malikehd ill ahem, Nes la • peeselons stme. She ta the
..alt"..*:"Zpeswiftsmwilliasswiameakeedlas I.4l"lumebe their ibe"6itstriiiki.u.:kg:rkbteliztburgbus'ner, nervous
took a mos st see Ashover, whose leg van ban-
daged up mil mob e„ arid who lay by the toed side
jest wiihth a The mom whom hands were out, salted
for • rids to NA be pm the driver Is. le take
him. Ile was eadeled the i_i, and gave two Mimi
stories otter be hei theme ban First, ho said ha hod
been rand; mil sesesdly, he mid he had been engegsd in
a prim fait llir 111. Os their snivel at Cheiderlisid the
mos wee pot dews at the 'White Has, where he hal his
beats ssfoisthse elemid, and he was cosvo to the Chia
MOM stoles is the imedbos, mai took a W.* for Derby.
them Oust istamsden his boss giemet, then is twos to
bairn that oohs bogies Wag toa liMmermi grog.

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