The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-10 00:00:00

....6.411

BANKRUPTS
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial fin_
portance in the Gazette :
Michael C. Riso, merchant, Manchester
Henry Harrison, engraver, Birmingham
Major Cowling, sculptor, Harrowgate
George Fordham, carpenter, Chelsea
Charles Hayden, eating housekeeper, Kilburn
Charles J. Pinnell, chair maker, Heaton
Daniel Bird, leather seller, Worcester
William Gibbons, painter, Kentish-town
Augustus L. Rohrs, ivory worker, Birmingham
John Marston, butcher, Wolverhampton
Francis James Finch, tutor, Portsea
Robert Phillips, photographer, Shrewsbury
Sidney Hall, jeweller, New North-road
James Warren Perrott, saddler, Pentonville
Walter Joyce, mantle manufacturer, Oxford-street
George J. Wood, currier, Norwich
Wm. Wilkinson, perfumer, Bradford
Richard Meazey, cowkeeper, Cardiff

SCOC BANKR
James Crosson, bo TotmHakec, Dundee UPTS.
John Simpson, schoolmaster, Kilmadock, Perthshiro
Campbell Leckie, shoemaker, Glasgow
Simon Mackenzie, merchant, Beaulay
Shaw, Turnbull, and Co., merchants, Glasgow

Shocking Accident at a Colliery.

On Thursday morning, about half-past 11, an
alarm was given that Neater had broken into the
Califal, one of the Coleorton pits, the property of
Messrs. Worswick and Walker. The men rushed
m
to the pit's mouth, and many were drawn up. Un-
fortunately the rapid rush of the water prevented
six men are known
taollhfarovme
perished.reaching the spot, and
How many
more are lost it is at
the present impossible to tell, as the roll has not been
called over. It appears that about three o'clock is
the morning water was perceived coining- through
gs, and be-
that several
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of the men refused to go to work, but upon an
as-
surance being given that all was safe, and that, if
it increased, an alarm would be immediately given,
all went to work. One poor fellow, L Rose, cu.
penter, of Belton, who has lost his life, was sent
down to plug the holes through which the water
was flowing, but about half-past 11 the siding gave
way, and the water rushed in with the greatest im-
petuosity. Fortunately there was a reservoir w Bich
received a large quantity of the water before reach-
ing the bottom of the shaft, which gave most of the
men time to ascend before it was upon them.
Six men, as far as can be ascertained, were tine
able to reach the coveted spot, and were over•
whelmed in the relentless torrent. Their names
are Jeremiah Rose, of Belton, carpenter, who
leaves a wife and six children ; Francis Doman,
of Coleorton Moor, leaves a wife and two
two children; Thomas Bird, foreman (or as he is
called corporal) over the boys, &c., leaves a wife and
nine children; Thomas Bird, nephew to the above,
aged 20, single ; G. Marsden, aged 15 ; and
Clements, aged 12. All the horses, 26 in number,
were drowned. An alarm was immediately given
to the California pit, between which and this there
is a communication, and the men and boys were
immediately drawn up without further accident,
there being large reservoirs between the pits which
checked for a time the progress of the water. An
attempt was then made to get the horses oat of this
pit, which was partially successful, but the water
mode such rapid progress that three horses were
obliged to be left, making in all 29 horses. When.
the last was drawn up the water could be seen
down the shaft seething and foaming like a whirl-
pool. There were many narrow escapes among those
that escaped. One poor bruised fellow said that on
the alarm being given himself and son ran for their
lives; his lamp went oat directly, and they were
left in total darkness. They ran on, striking their
heads every now and then against projecting coal,
and hearing the:rushing of the water behind them,
which did not seem more than two yards off. They
ran on, and were all but exhausted before they got
to the shaft. He was pushed on by his son, whom
he repeatedly told it was no use, as he could go no
further. There were upwards of 200 men and boys
in the two pits at the time of the accident.