Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-26 00:00:00

FATAL SEWER ACCIDENT-THREE LIVES LOST.

A shocking accident took place yes'erday morning about nine
o'clock, in the Whitechapel-road, London, facing the entrance of the
late Pavillion Theatre. For so ne weeks past a large number of
labourers have been engaged in connecting an old sewer which ran
in front of the house on the North side of the road with the main
sewer in the centre of the road. This is done by running twelve-inch
pipes from one se aer to the other. One had been partly driven in
from a s'reet drain welt, and a man named John Fitzp :trick
was completing it at a depth of some eighteen feet from
the surface of the road. An outlet had been obtained into
the main sewer, and all the piping had been laid, with the
exception of the piece which was to connect t with the old sewer. It
appears that as each pipe is set it is n-cessary to place a board ever
the bore, so that the dirt shout I not get into it as the labourers fill in
the working. Fttzpatrick was in the act of removing the beard, so
as to fit in the last portion of pipe, when a rush of foul air from the
ma'n sewer came in full power upon him, and the unfortunate man
fell forward. Another labourer named G. Frank.s, who had con-
siderable experienee in the constmc ion of sewe•s, apparently
unconscious of what hal really happened to his fellow-workman,
descenle I the excav&tiou, lend. on resehing the bottom, fell sense'ess.
'rhe cries of some boys brought other labourers to the scans, and
three more unfortunate fellows, and Irishm en, hastened down to
the bottom of th 3 sewer, and were quickly overcome by the poisonous
air, and the five poor creatures were to be seen lying on the top of
each other. In a minute or so the foreman of the works arrive I, and
the workmen wre warne I not to g o down. Hooks were then pro-
cured, and the unhappy fellow] were bro tglit do to the surface
Three of the men were found to be quite dead,. the other two wore
insensible. Two of the suffsrers were married, aad have left fam lies.
Their bodies p resented a very discoloured appearance Irma the effects
of the poisonous air.

EXPLOSION OF THE BOILER OF A STEAM
THRASHING MACHINE.

LOSS OF THREE LIVES.

Information has just reached us of a horrible ace dent in Ruchford
Hundred—the explosion of the boiler of a steam thrashing machine
at Prittlewell, the loss of thraa lives, and probably of a fourth, and
the destruction of a cansiderable amount of property. It appears that
one of the steam machines of the Meows. Eddingtoe, of Springfield.
was employed to thrash the corn just harvested in a field belmgin g to
Mr. George Weal, between Prittlewell and R tchf :rd, but occupied by
Mr. Goarge Hart; on Monday morni tg, after tho mon engaged in
the work bad returned from their breakfasts the machine was set
in motion, and while they were busily employed round It, the
boiler of the engine b _snit with a terriele explosion, spreading death
and destruction around, the heavy ironwork being shattered to hag-
meets, and two p'eces weighing 5 cwt. of the huge wheels, being
carries through a hedge to the distance of 103 yards. When the
smoke and steam cleared away, a horrible scene presented itself.
Three cf the men employed had been killed upo❑ the spot, their
bodies being fearful), mangled by the exploder'. A fourth hal been
blown to a considerable distance, and when taken up it was tonnd
that his back was broken, and he was otherwise so dread-
Lilly injured as to leave not the slight st probability of his
recovery. A man named Tait, the son of a tinker, at Rock-
ford, was one of the persons killed; but we hove not been
a'so to ascertain the namos of the other sufferers, one of whom had
only bean taken on to the work In the morning, so that he had been
emyloyed only a few hours when he met his de stli. There were five
men engaged about the engine at the time, but one es •aped without
serious i jury. Of con se, the thrashing-machine itself saffared ;
and to add to the fearful nature ot' the scene, the corn stack, which
was fie process of thrashing caught fire, and was wholly coasu.ned .
ESSfS lice. id.

THE NEW AUSTRALASIAN STEAMSHIP.

This ma zniflcent bon steamer, built by Messrs. J. and G. Chomp.
son Clyde Bank, for the European and Australian Compa ay, left tit_
Broomielaw on Friday, for sonthamp'on, whence she will soon make
her maiden passenger trip. She was lan ched on tee 10th of June
last. The Australasian is of 2,800 tons bailders's measnremeat, and
is 300 feet over all, 42 feet beam, and will be propelled by means of a
three-bladed screw by two directing acting erten es of 700 horse power.
She has six tubular bolers, which ern ,vered with felt, and then with
lead, by which heat is retained and fuel economised. These ar, fled
by 30 furnaces, There are two 9) inch cylinders, with a3l feet
stroke. These are also covered with felt, overlaid with teakwood, which
imparts t, t e ponderous machinery an ape trance qaite ornamental.
The pop, instead of being fitte I up as a dining saloon, as i 3
generally the case with the Atlantic steamship', is hero a qo opri clad ,
to 60 sleeping cabins, which w.ll be exce !dingle wry. Tune
of course, will be favourite be, the in a tropical voyage. The saloon
is consequently placed below upon the main-deck. It need only be
said of it that it is a se Reims and mast hareisome hall, with a spree
of eight feet between fiber and eeilinr, and capable of accommodating
180 first class passengers comfortably at dingier. On each side and
forward erend a long line of comfortably cabin:, Here being in all
Bleeping accommodation for '2OO first-class pa:sensers and for 6,, TAKE :‘1 ionic;AN.—lt is s del that the water in this lalie
is as hi:4,h as it hia been known siace 1838, at which time
second class, along, also, with a very pretty saloon f,r the
the rice was so great as to kill trees over one hundred years
latter class in the forward part of the ship. At night the cabins
are fully lighted, but, as in other first class modern steamers, of age. The level is new only fourteen
his fact does away
n inches less than
the light itself is beyond the reach of the passenger, who thus thee, being about what it was in 1853.
cannot either thoughtlessly or sinfully barns himself or endanger pith the theory of the periodical rise and fall, or what is
knows as the " seven
"n years theory."
the ship ty means of fire. There are seven bith-rooms, both for l. bachelor writes in the
plunge and shower, 21 water-closets, &c. In fart, there are the IVeekl I\l ARM
Magazine—" Now for it, my young man ; realise
" LIFP"—A. cynical
elements of comfort visible in every dire_tor, for even the iooeing-
glass on the wall turns on a hall and socket, by which it can be easily the ilea of a happy wedded existence.. Begin to form
bought in juxtaposition with the passenger's face, whatever may be your wife's mind. Itroad to her, and she will interrupt you
the lay or heel of the ship. We need sca'cely say that everythine. in the middle of the finest and most pathetic passages to
;give a trifling direction to a servant. Talk to her, and in
which the ingenuity of man can do has been done for the attaaroaont the milst of y-.tir highest flight; and loftiest senti-
of safety in navigation. The Australasian is divided by strong iron
bulkheads into six or seven watertight compar.mants. She has a yre will laugh in your facf, and ask you how
powerful steam whistle over the holler, which can be minite9anshtealk smell nensseise ; far she is your wife now.
While
were courting her she would listen to your
worked
by means of a lanyard from the bows under posing y'
f u'ir whole li, s, and affect intense admiration.
such circumstances at may call for it—such as
a in Argue with her—but that I defy you to do."
fog, apprehended collision, or epproaching the land. The 1 Colonel \V. Williams, of New °cleans, commenced on
captain has a telegraph upon the bridge, by which he can in- the 20th ult. to eat one thousand eggs in one thousand
stantaneonsly regulate the opera' iens of the engineer. Slit carries hours, on a w;rger of ono thousand dollars between
seven large boats—four of them li-beat3 and three cet+er;• and four
of the numblr are fitte 1 up with Clifford's patoot lowering ►a' i aratu
and
tde
sixteen colal cap
hoursa cif
y bwyjial
the elf cacy of which will he tested during tit' first outwar7l tri3e. All' hims,lf and G. W. Hutchinson. The lonel is confident
is fireproof, cud no portion of the woodwork comes nearer the eel'. ee
than four feat, while around the boilers water hose are sn:pen :,.:d of
i(ee ',-k,'"ente'ster'aianni.iller:h.as FPrrrettaya-orende dbaiyss
thheeatoptielreatioa. We have a not
colonel hollow at egg
which may in a moment he rpp ied to the coiling of any part oil tit; Wo will bet on his devouring the thousand eggs
machinery which gets overheated. It's into :dad that the A u,tral,isi ‘ I‘7• ;i'cliat'igrereddetgs ctP'analt.plcetaen
shall sail from Southampton on the 12. h of Seetamb r for Ile a stria VI .Zl.l. the time named, and net think he has done any-
thing 'emrth bragging of cither.—Poraand paper.
in the first instance, as a short trial trip, and neon her return she Tine 740(011 OF CHEMBDURG's PinDLI.ES3 TO Tail QUEEN
will be pet up.,n Vise Wag and imp.,rtaut station tot.tave.en Suez and
—T ie fol'ewi g is a copy of the speech addressed by the
Au trails, Map'. of Cherbourg to Queen Victoria :—" Madam and
' us sovereign,—The city of Cherbuir' which
THE ARCHDUKE MAxcMlLl,aer,—A traveller who has just i letl•Vi.vg,2:.:'llu;:l3ll/)onotirltlolailacti.rr)Ainister,is happy to see' to-day
come loan Venice, informs Ine that Cu.: Arcitdake Ferdi- hope r a moment conceived last year.
nand Maximilian, t..nd the Archduchess Charlotte, were rAeralintlYted to' the remarkable favour of being presented to
extremely well received on the 16th lust. It attracted , N "nr lvitaj ..,,y, I dare hope your Majesty will deign to per-
general notice thattlaere were no tnilieer , " hed 'es" formed -nit me to lay at your I\l jestyB' feet the respretful homage
from theluading place to the palace. asis)usual on such sera- i of. my fellow. citizens. The I ts.ll August Will be inscribed
sions. The fact is, that the governor-general of Lombardy is t 11 their memories as a precious and memorable day.
wull liked, and would be extremely popular, if it were not 1 Queen Victoria is the first British Sovereign who has
generally kuovin that he is one of the principal protectota 'ed Cherbourg since Normandy ceased to belong to
of the Ultramontanists. Oa the 14,h in-A., the noblle Great Britain. The last English monarch whom Cher-
Alessandra Mareello took the oaths as pjdestz or Burgos, i boors received within its walls was Henry V., in the year
master of Venice. 1420, ruder circumstances very diffrent from the preeent.