The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.

A diatreiseiog accident occurred at one of the coal-
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fit4l:44ll;;lLLat.,drugthlnittir. Saturday taut, Id?.
many 7eare ploughman to the demand Calmed C of
fibewhill, Wet her life. Iler mother has rwinented wi a
wean of the name of John Todd, ma smployd of Mr. Joha '
Movie, coalmaster, Mulford. The girl, who wee about ea-
, teen years of age, had gone with some food fur her fether-la-
law to what I. namod the Baltic, • pit near to the Genoa
Water, and where she found bier, along with the other men.
Todd told the girl that aa it would be a considerable time as
he would take his supper she need not wail, and he would
bring home the empty dabs. himself. This wee about
7 o'clock in the evening. The light wee burning at the
mouth of the ehaft in the usual way, end in its usual pool,
bon. The girl turned to go home, but to whatever mane the
deception was owing, she same to hay*
bre portion relative to the orifice of the sad
stepped into it. A cry wee heard, the reps moved as
If struck at intervals—there was • heavy sound, sad ell wee
Wt. It wee the work of a moment. The Ws father. in-
the rope, and bad he not been prevented Ms
owertaio to
would have been lost In • vain endeavour to save
that of his daughter. Aa the position of the girl at the bot-
tom wee 1111k2011M. It wee judged most prudent not to put the
1 eratelasey in modes In rein the WO, but one of the colliers
wee let dos by what le technically called the crab and he
Mead Ye lying quite dead. She had fallen with her fax
downward en the bar of the age, and the weight of her body
balanced, ebe was literally broken over
thiamin:26ra up into the cage. The pit In about 300
feet in depth. The grid and distraction of the mother, when
stair and promising daughter, on the eve of womanhood, and
who so shortly before had left her M health and strength,
was brought beck to her • mangled corpse, was painful to
vitae... The Rev. Mr. Reid, of the Free Church, Hurl-
teed, shortly after elated the Wady, and used his endeavours
to eouthesed console. The occurrence has naturally made a
deep mad= In the village.— Olaagato Deily Mail.

QUARRY ACCIDENT IN NORTIIWA!

elsocking asimleeghe bas seemed la the Vale of Nantile, so
lately the erns et • radY eseldeat of a similar cha-
racter. Oa Illaslsy Nis ma was st work at the Dorothea
Slateworka,. In • plt Yawn as the Fire Hole. A fresh
" consig of a channel about fifteen yards hug
and amen or eight Mud, was in proper. preparatory to
working the date on each side, which nese perpendicularly
to the height of about thirty yards. A powder-waggon had
just been lowered into the pit, when an iMM4OIIB Male of
rock fell se suddenly as an avalanche upon the men. About
thirty or forty tone rested on a gallery above, overhanging
the opening, and flora divided the rock in its dement into
two muses, which completely cut off all escape. One
man ran • few paths after the fall, but hie pregres
was arrested, and he wee buried with the net. The
sixth man was almost miraculously preserved. Ile
was working apart from the others, on higher
, and the projecting rock partially sheltered
Conrd A atone about du tone weight was see to
bound over his heed, and, though struck by frogs/seta end
seriously injured, be ultimately succeeded in reaching the
area of the quarry. Bleating had frequently to be resorted
to to recover the bodice, which were not found until Friday
evening. Belays of workmen marched during tie whole
week, night and day, without intermission. The bodies pre-
sented • frightful appearance. Some were ttcribly mutilated
and nearly cut through, and one wee perfectly Battened by
the weight upon him, the skull torn Launder, and the brain
found separated close by. The name. of the deceamed are
William Pritchard, 60; John Evans, 38; Thomas Joao,
3t; Owen Morrie, 28; and Thomas Pritchard, 21. All ex-
cepting the last-named were married, and leave several
children. Had to. accident happened about three minutes
Kroner, in all likelihood but one if, would have been sacri-
ficed, us the rest had retired for a while from work. The
entire fall la estimated at several thousand tons, and the t ab-
blab, irrespective of the enormous mem which lodged on the
{edge, was piled to a height of sight yards.—Shretrabury
Journal.
DEBPERATZ POACHING APPRAY.—A GAMEKEEPER
Sttor.—On Wednesday, Dee. 30, John Draper was bought
before the sitting magletratee at the Sbire Ilan, Nottingham,
charged with shooting John Winfield, on the preserved lands
of John Musters, Esq., of Annealey-wood-house. It ep•
peered ham the evidence that the prisoner went, along with
nine or les others, on the 28th of December, in the pursuit
ef per le Anualey-wood. Winfield and some other
hempen were watching, and having heard a gun flied they
wet to the place whence the report proceeded, and discovered
the peashers, who instantly began to assail theta with stones.
Ow of the poacher' said " Shoal" and Draper turned round,
=Leelds piece, and red, the contents of the gun enter-
fired,
pert et Winfield's thigh. The keepers then
eked wilt Mir semarMt, and Wyman, one of the watchers,
struck the Wears as the head with • bludgeon, calming •
serious wound. The other poachers then made of; but
Peeper net being able to got away, was apprehended. Win-
laid rural= in • very dangerous state, and the magistrates
be,, ramadal the prisoner fora week, as it is not known
whether Irbileld will recover. Nose of the other poachers
hamlet bow apprehended.
DEATH FROM EATING PLUM-PUDDlNG.—Yester-
day Mr. Watley held ea bequest at the Elephant and
Culle, Camden-town, on Frederick Harding, late an inmate
of Bt. Pancras workhouse, aged about 60. On Saturday
the deceased woe devouring • large quantity of cold plum-
pudding, and after be had eaten some pounds of the pudding
and we. in the act of swallowing another large piece, be fell
suddenly forward in an insensible state to the gromd. Mr.
William Coeter, the senior medical officer, was sent for; but
before he came the min expired. Mr. Coster, upon making
• poebenortron examination, observed some three or four
pounds of plum-padding in the deceased's stomach, as also
a quantity in his respiratory orgasm; and, from the condition
of the brain, it would SEMI that the wretched man had been
aired with a sudden tit of apoplexy. On the day before
(Chi:stmas-day) the inmates of the workhouse wen well re-
galed with good fare, in the shape of roast beef and plum-
padding, and the deceased most have tusnaged to have re-
ceived more than his owe share. The nay returned a ver-
dict of Accidental death by sufbeation;"
DEATH or A BOY lIIROVOH PLACING A PEA IN
tits EAL—YOIII4IIIII, morning ea inquest was held rot the
Jelly Caulker. Tavern, New•road, RiAhatithe, on the body
of Robert Sinclair, aged 8 years, the son of a lightarrotan re-
siding at No. 46, Colnerctal-striet. The deceasedattended
• free mew Ml in edway-place, Deptford-road. On the 2nd
fast be we. playing with a number of his schoolfellows,
when be peodnind a pea and said he would have a game at
esalarleg, and put the pea in Pia ear and bring it out of his
mem& The poor little fellow at once put the pea in his
or, ma, much to his alarm, ha was unable to withdraw it.
Hie aim soon brought smistante, and he was at once con-
loyal to ft. Thomas'. Hospital, where every means were
=mead to to relieve him but without auccus. He was
ueordingly again taken home, and placed under the care of
Mr. Cerise., surgeon ; but he died on the 20th ine• There
was not the slightest doubt that the pea gradually peaetrated
Ye tithes& math It ceased some injury to the brain. The
Jay retamed • media of "Accidental death," accomparied
recomMilsiaMon, both from the coroner and jury, to the
act that the riesimester be requested to caution tho whole
of the &Hama la a body against amusing themselves in a
Under manner to that which led to the deceased's death.

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THE Two WOMEN POUND DUD 1$ BID AT
Dr uLer.—An inquest was bold cm bloody ea the bodies at
the two women, earned Cecilia and Catheaine De*, imam
sad daughter., "rho ver• fogad dead la their bad ea Mae-
da, =mains leek at Dudley. • verdict at "Ibtaideedelly
pawned- wail retyped, the widows teethes Se pew diet
death bed been occasioned by add, takes to the liora
et ail al almoodsos cme ate mil ELWIN%