The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-21 00:00:00

THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION AT LUNDHILL,

RECOVERY OF 1410 RE BODIES.

The meeting of the engineers, which took place at the pit
on Friday, having been adjourned till Saturday, it was
expected that on that day their decision as to the commence-
ment of the search would be made public. This, however,
was not the case, as the committee decided, at a late hour
on Friday night, to adjourn until to-day. About twelve
o'clock on Friday night, Messrs. BeEvers, Warhurst,
Beaumont, and South, descended the shaft, where they
found three bodies floating on the surface of the water in
the shaft, immediately behind the boarding or fencing
which had been put up. With much care they were
brought to the top, where they w ere at once placed in
coffins, and conveyed to the shed erected as a re-
ceiving depot. The bodies are so far decomposed
as to admit of little ch ince of being recognised,
the features being en,irely gone, and the bodies
nearly bl ck and shapeless On Saturday morning, as
soon as their recovery became known, great excitement
was evinced by the relatives of the unfortunate victims to
see the bodies, and it is gratifying to find that two out of
the three have been identified. The coroner was apprised
of the circumstance, and a jury having been summoned, a
woman named Gray stated that she recognised the body of
one of the men as that of her husband, Thomas Gray.
She recognised him from a large wait which he had
between the thumb and first finger of the left
hand. William Gray also recognised the body
as that of his brother Thomas. Hannah Cutts had
examined the bodies at the shed, and believed that one
of them was that of her son ; as she had three sons in
the pit could not say which it was. She identified the
body principally from the peculiarity of the waistband
of a trowsers and from a belt. The third body was
not identified, and the coroner, in dismissing the jury,
said that if any snore bodies were brought out and could
be identified, it would be well for them to meet at once ;
but if they could not be identified they should be in'
terred, and the adjournment of the inquest would remain
as before, that is, to the 30th inst. During part of
Saturday a number of the men were engaged at the
hoitom of the shaft in getting out a quantity of rubbish,
corve wheels, and timber, which greatly impeded the
working of the cisterns. Tois, which was a task of
much labour, the men having to work up to the middle in
water, having been successfully carried out, the two
buckets were brought into active operation, and the
emptying of the pit is now proceeding with the greatest
rapidity.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATT ERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
LATEST BETTING.
GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP.
4 to 4 agst St. Giles (taken)
9 2.. Skirmisher (taken and offered)
9 ... 2 .. Chevalier D'lndustrie
2000 GUINEAS.
4 to 1 agst Kent (taken)
11 .. 2 ... Anton (taken)
6 .. 1 Loyola (taken)
6 .. 1 .. Vedette (taken and offered)
8 .. 1 .. Sydney (offered)
LOOO GUINEAS,
S to 4 agst Biink Bonny
3 .. 1 ~ Ayancora
CHESTER CUP.
6 to 1 agst Leamington (taken)
10 .. 1 Mince Pie (taken and offered)
20 1.. Daleamara (taken)
30 .. 1 .. Zig Zag (taken)
DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Anton (taken)
100 .. 6 .. Arsenal
25 .. I .. Sprig of Shillelagh
25 .. I ... Tournament (taken)
25 .. 1 .. . Lady Hawthorne (offered)
40 1 .. Wardermarke (taken)
50 .. 1 .. Chevalier D'lndustrie (taken)
1000 _l5 .. Athlete

The Montreal papers say active steps are taken to secure
a steam elevator and three accompanying barges fl,r faci-
litating the trade of that port next sewn). A subscription
of £5,000 is.nec3siary. The sum of £3,000 was at once
subscribed.

In the Pennsylvanian Legislature a bill has been intro.
duced which confers upon the proper authorities in every
township, town, borough, or city, the power to levy a tax
of not more than one dollar, and not less than fifty cents,
upon each taxable inhabitant, for the establishment of a
library to be dev,ted to and kept for the public use. Each
township, town, borough, or city, is empowered to take and
hold any gift, devise, or bequest, which is donated for the
Promotion or establishment of such an object.
CONTRACTS FOR PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS,—A report from
the (defunct) sdect committee of the House of Commons
on contracts for public departments has been published.
It contains simply the minutes of evidence adduced by Mr
Thomas Howell, Mr J. R. Godley. Mr R. Eaton, Mr
James Pew, and Mr C. Sandys Elliott. Among other
particulars elicited, it is stated that out of 160,000 pairs
of boots 35,000 pairs ware rejected about a year ago, the
cause of rejection having been bad workmanship and bad
materials

A. TRADESMAN'S SON ACCIDENTALLY POISONED AT
HALIFAX.—On Saturday evening, an inquest was held at
Halifax, on view of the body of James Thompson, son of
a respectable tradesman, who did under the following
painful circumstances. From the evidence of the servant
girl, the only witness examined, it appeared that a quan-
tity of spirits of ammonia was purchased for some house.
hold purpose about three weeks ag). The deceased, on
seeing it, observed that it would do him no harm if he
toot some of it, and the ether members of the family,
thinking he would perhaps try it, as he was not altogether
of sound mind, had it locked up in the wine cellar; but
on Friday night the servant girl happened to leave the
door open, and on the following morning the deceased
entered the cellar unobserved and drank a portion of the
spirits. Immediately afterwards he 'commenced coughing
very violently, and the family, having ascertained what
had happened, sent for Dr. Garlick, their medical atten.
dant, but before his arrival the deceased was a corpse.
The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."