The Sun.
London, England, 1806-09-20 00:00:00

SLIOCKING

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We ye4terdaY Mentioned, tiiaf al)ont na:r past
three e•cldck yesterday morning, two lionse's in Harp.;
alleyi,l'oref‘etratti which have for some time past
been in a state of decay, fell with a tremendous crash
to the ground, and, we are concerned to state, bu-
ried a ntiiuber of the unfortunate inmates in the
- ruins. - The houses comprised a part of the pre-
mises of an adjoining Public-house, le own by the
name of the Kentish- by, and rented by Mr. Wea7
therelt, the landlord, for the purpose of lodging the'
poorer sort of people, such as soldier& and labouring
men, and in which he and his family generally slept. •
The neighbours, with the greatest alacrity, assembled;
and, having obtained tools for the purpose,. began to
dig for the unhappy sufferers, whom they heard
calling for assistance from various parts of the ruins
in tones of the most agonizing distress.
On summing up the lodgers, there were found
Missing, Weatherelt (the landlord), hiS wife, son,
and daughter; Farrow and son ; Hutton (a soldiery
his wife and daughter- Fitzgerald (a soldier belong-
tng to the Tower), his• wife. and • daughter; Po
cock (a soldier), his wife, and a young woman about
fourteen, years of age, their relation; Mrs. White
and three children ; Mrs, Darlington and two chit-
dren ; William Rider, a cooper; Mr. Lacy, his
wife, and two daughters, making in all twenty-seven
persons.
Weatherelt, his wife, and son, fell from the up-
per story, and were found nearly together in the
ruins, where the cries of the two latter had brought
the people to their relief. The husband was taken
Out quite dead, and in a mutilated state, by the side
of his wife; the son and-wife were both, bruised,
but not so as to endanger their lives. Weatherelt
took to his room, the night before, upwards di 25
guineas, which also were, found, and restored to the
wife. The distressing cries of the daughter were
heard for several hours before she could be released
from her miserable situation in one of the lo•.vcr
apartments-) covered with several loads of rubbish
when she was dragged from her prison she was alt
most bent double, and severely bruised, but no bones
were broken, . She paid little attention to her own
injuries, but was inconsolable till she heard her fa-
mily were all out of danger. The death of her- fat
ther the workmen 'kept from her,-, until she was.
sufficiently composed to bear the news. When her
mother was brought to her, a most affecting scene
vas witnessed : the girl flew into her arms in the
greatest extaey, and it was with difficulty they could
be separated. She fainted several times with excess
Of sensibility.
Farrow and his son escaped, at The back of -the
house, before it fell, having been warned by a crack-
ing they heard.

Mrs. White and her children escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Darlington was a widow; leer husband)
an Artilleryman, was killed by accident at Wool-
wich last year; herself and two children fell a cons
siderable height, and were completely involved
in' the ruins; she had strength enough, by calling
out, to attradt the workmen to the spot where they
were immured. When she was taken out she
made shocking lamentations for her children, which.
at this time had not been found. Although naked,
and severely mangled, the poor woman would not
quit the ruins till she had learned the fate of her.
offspring ;---.her infant, about ten months old, was
soon found, without the least signs cif life ; she'
fondly caressed its remains, and bitterly wept its
sad fate. The other was also shortly found, and;
though much bruised; is likely to recover ; the
mother accompanied' .it to St.• Dunstan's Work-
house, where-all those repaired who were hot clan,
gerously wounded, in order to be accommodated
with ap[rrel.

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Lacy, his wife and one &tighter, were much
bruised in their bodies,%.but their. recovery is 'not
doubted ; the other daughter was found quite dead.
Near to the dead body Was duo- our Pocock's rela-
tion j the young girl was pennell up for four hours
in a confined place, under some timber which de-
fended from her body a quantity of brick and rub,
bish, that otherwise would soon have destroyed her.
In ' this situation, she cried out incessantly until
she was. relieved. A Mr. Swin, a bakei in the
neighbouthood, wino. had persevered several hours
to release her, was severely bruised by the falling
of a stack of chimnies, which had been- left stand-
ing, and he had also the Misfortune` to have ,his
thumb broken, , .

The rest of the .people were all found, and taken
.from their miserable abodes by nine o'clock, and are
all likely to recover froth the bruises they received.—
The only deaths are, Weatherelt, Lacy's daughter,
.and ;firs. Darlington's child.
Pocock, it afterwards appeared), bad been On
guard all: night, and escaped-- his share .of the• acci-
dent. . t•.

V7henit tOnstclepa that to the 'dumber of 22
-persons were buried under the ruins,„it seems'al-
•most a miracle that three persons only should have
lost their lives, and no limbs should be biOken.—
There is no doubt, however, that several lives were.
• saved through the uncommon exertions. of the neigh-
bOurs and workmen, who volunteered. their services
to dig out the unfortunate sufferers. Their huma-
nity on the occasion deserves to be recorded. About
a ihrtnight prior to this accident a Surveyor was em-
Wye(' to examine the houses, who gave it as his opi-
nion that they would stand for 14 years at least. • No
signs of falling appeared until Thursday night, when
the yard attached to Weatherelt's house seemed a
good deal shrunk ; but, when it was noticed it did.
not excite alarm, as great reliance was placed oa• the
Surveyor's opinion. As the poor people have lost
every thing they possessed, it is hoped that some of
our charitable institutions will take their unfortunate
cases into consideration, and afford them such assist
ance as 'their necessities require.

Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a tre-
mendous explosion took place in a house in Eagle-
court, Eagle-street, Red Lion-square, owing to a
private still bursting in the kitchen, which da,
maged the premises- very much : the lodgers in the
house-ran into the street. The kitchen was occu-
pied by a person of the name of Williams, who ran
away. The ,Excise Offiers were sent for, who
-seized on the materials, and a quantity of wash.
On Monday week a chimney-s‘ieeper, who has
a plurality of wives (three), sold one of these spare
ribs to a prdener, for 3s. 6d. at the market-cross
in Ponterraa, where, according M the customary
etiquette, she *as delivered in a bake,.