The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-18 00:00:00

ACCIDENT AT MANCHESTER.

CORONER'S INQUEST...
• Vnlll.lV, OcT.l6.—An Inquest has 'been held before Joirm
,Iltt.h Esq.,'Coroner, and a respectable Jury. stitnrn oned
front the Townships of Salford, Manchester, and Pent:lett*,
held at the house of Mr. Joseph Smith, Angel Inn, Sallbrd.
Theirmaincs"are as follow : —Salford Thomas Hollins, Thos.
Evans, Robert Williamson, and 'P. Grundy--Manchester:
Edward Lynch, Richard Eaton, Nat. Lowe, and W. Woittl—
Pendleton : John Brettargh, Geo. Hartkinson, J. IVhitekead,
and William Barton. •

At ten a. at. the Jury were impanelled and tiwortt ; and im-
mediately ;tiler, accompanied by the Cormier, proceeded to :s,view of the factory and premises, and (through the active'exer-
tions of Mr. Derbyshire, the Deputy Constable of Salford) the
several bodies were so arranged in a abed belonging to the Fre-
mites as to render the view by the Coroner and Jury as Itttli•
appalling; as possible. After an attentive survey, they returned
reo the A ngtl, for the purpes, of hearing the evidence to la ad-
&iced, relatireg to the deaths a the following individuals:—
Elizabeth Smith, Jane and Ell! 'n Ashton, mother it'd ugh-
ter;
Anne Moreton, Francis Smith, Su..
. James and ItiArzal (heaves', brothers,
vannah llarnblcton, Thome, Clarke, Villiant Kinsey, Cathe-
rine Schofield, and other 1,1-tittles, names unknown, not having
yet been owned by any one. -
Nathan Gough deposed, that he believed the beam of No. 6
floor waViiulty, and that that was the cause of the accident.—
dames henry said, he was about going dowti stain', and -had
his hand on the-door handle for that purpose, when he felt
shake, and the floors were down in a moment. Ile being on
the stairs escaped. A grent'dcal of evidence was heard, but no-
thing more was Melted as to she cause of the accident. -
' VslnnteT.--The Jury returned a verdict as follows i•-•-
"' That the s,iid deceased persons were killed on the lath isist.,•
• by the accidentally falling or a cotton mill in Salford aforeltai4,
the property of N. Gonxii, us appears by the evidence to the
said Jurors." •
I understand that the funeral of the whole, or the most part
of them, will not take place till Sunday next, being a day,. of
course, Ivhen all are unemployed in business; and,voniitlertng
the great population of this town and neighbourhood, whose
but when
interest will no doubt be excited, by so melancholy and ap •
dented a spectacle (should they be interred on Sunday) we may
expect no common scene.
That there are others dead, besides those,on whichiminquest
hay been held, there can be little doubt that there 'are murk.
(in. the 'h-auTrlyothers
c ornefruys nu cob( htl':ort,nit4omalrnttrthi:laeux; iety of re-
latites to get to their own homes the injured individuals is eon,.
sidered, it will be some time. I fear before the MI extent o*
the misfbrtune is ascertained.
'Four individtuds are now in the Infirmary, likely to do will
but there is one lying in Salford, whose recovery is despair: d of

STEAM-BOATI4.—A BlNatil flamed the
Etnoress Caroline, runs regularly between Trieste and Venice.
It arrived at Ver►ice with 46 passengers on the 27th orSepteml
ber, and Sailed thence on the 28th w►th 26 passengers.

The house of J. P. MACQUEEN, Fort. M.P. at
Ilurnham-grove, near Salt-hill, was broken into a few nights
ago, and plate stolen therefrom. The thieV64, h 0 we% Ow nib'.
taking a tool-cheat for that which contained the p)sito,d' -
camped with less than their expected booty. It 14 "t twelve-
month
ago that Mr. Macqueetes town house in Bark-lane was
robbed of valuables to a largo amount, on which occasion tht,
depredators were discovered and capitally convicted.