The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-15 00:00:00

APPALLING ACCIDENT AT MANCHESTER.

An accident of a most appalling character occurred on
Monday afternoon, at about a quarter to lour, at the
warehouse of Messrs. John Pender and Co., Mount-street,
Manchester. The circumstances are shortly as follow :
With the desire of having everything connected with the
warehouse as perfect as possible, Messrs. Pender and Co.,
about three weeks ago, gave Mr. Ilugh Baines an order to
fit one of his " patent self-acting safety apparatus" to one
of the hoists. For these three weeks the hoist has been
given up entirely to Mr. Baines and his men, and has not
been used for the purposes of Messrs. Pender's business ;
and, in consequence, the " hoist man for the hoist in
question has been for that time superseded. In the
ordinary course of business, no one in the warehouse
clan use a hoist without the " hoist man being present,
and no one but he dare work a hoist, upon pain of
dismissal. The hoist having been given up to Mr. Baines,
the apparatus was fitted on and completed on Monday,
when Mr. Ba'nes resolved to have a trial, without the
knowledge of Messrs. Pender and Co., preparatory to a
more formal trial which was to take place in the
presence of Mr. Fairbairn and other scientific gentlemen.
At the urgent solicitation of Mr. Baines, Mr. Peacock, the
head warehouseman, and his brother, along with Mr,
Bathes and two of his men, and Mr. Jas. Shaw, Messrs.
Pender and Co.'s engineer, entered the cage, and were
drawn up to the top storey. It was then proposed that
when the cage got to the top of the well, when the balance
weight would, of course, be on the ground, the engineer
should disconnect, the rope (which would be the same as it it
had accidentally broken), and thus test the value and effici-
ency of Mr. Baines' apparatus tier checking the descent. So
soon as Mr. Peacock and his brother heard that, they said
they should not remain in the cage, and suiting the action to
tht word, they stepped on to the ledge of the wall, about 15
to 18 inches broad, se as to get through the door on the upper
floor of the warehouse. As they did that, Mr. Shaw, who
got on the top of the cage suddenly disconnected the rope,
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of the building, a distance of about 50 feet. The great
velocity of the cage left poor Shaw in mid air, in something
of a flying position; he followed thn cage at the height of
two yards above it, and was terribly smashed when he
fell on to it at the bottom. Mr. Baines and his two men,
inside the cage, fared as badly. The four sufferers were
at once removed to the infirmary, where it was found
Shaw had sustained such injuries (his 1-g being broken
and his body dreadfully cut) that his life from the first
was despaired of. Ile died the same night about nine
o'clock, at the infirmary. Mr. Baines has a verely lace-
rated foot; one of his men sustained a compound fracture
of the leg, and the other a broken j

Several hundred weights of " jhuggery" is now being
destroyed by burning, in the Southampton Docks.
" Jhugzery" is a mixture of tobacco, malasses, and opium,
and used to be smoked by the Lamm on board the General
Screw Company's steamers when they traded with the East
Indies. It is happily unsaleable in this country,