The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-06 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 4.

STOCK ExCHANGIL—Owing to the holidays comparatively
little business has been transacted during the past week.
The share maket has, however, recovered in a considerable
degree from the unexpected shock which it experienced on
Thursday week, and prices of heavy stocks are advancing to
the position from which they then receded. As a proof of
the buoyancy and elasticity of the share market, notwith-
standing the heavy blow and discouragement it recently re-
ceived, it may be mentioned that London and lsiorth-
estern Stock was sold to-day in Birmingham at 125%.
The following were among the closing prices :—Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, buyers 10%, sellers 11—
Coventry and Nuneaton, sellers 2% p.— Midland, buyers
47,,;, sellers 48%—London and North-Western, buyers 125,
sellers, 125%—Ditto, New Quarters, buyers 3s/,sellers 414 p.
—North Staffordshire, buyers 8%, sellers 8 dis.—Shrews-
bury and Birmingham (A), buyers 5%, sellers 5% dis.
Ditto ( B), buyers, 4 sl'4, sellers 4%—Ditto, Preference, buyers
9% —South Staffordshire, buyers 3%, sellers 3% dis.—
shropshire Union, buyers 31. as. 9d., sellers 31. ls. 3d. dis.—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, buyers 1914, sellers 19z3i.

ACCIDENT AT THE GREA[ NORTHERN

RAILWAY.

On Saturday afternoon, shortly after three o'clock,
an accident of an alarming character took place at
the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, by which
one unfortunate man has lost his life, and three other
persons have been seriously injured.
The Great Northern Company, in addition to their
extensive coal depots at their temporary terminus in
Maiden-lane, are having constructed an immense
granary. This building is situate on the southern side
of the station, abutting on a spacious dock, con-
structed on the northern side of the Regent's Canal,
immediately facing the dock and works belonging to
the Imperial Gas Company. From this dock there
exists two cuttings or creeks, running into the
granary, for the purpose of enabling barges to run
into and receive the grain under cover of the building
itself, and to facilitate the loading and unloading of
goods. In this building a large number of workmen
in the employ of Mr. Jay, the contractor, were
at work in various departments, and in the creek on
the eastern side of the granary, into which the water
has already been admitted, were employed a number
of carpenters, sawyers, &c., the latter, it is stated,
working on a kind of floating sawpit.
At the time abovementioned some workmen were
employed in raising an iron girder to one of the
upper floorings by means of "sheers." This girder,
it is stated, is in weight from five to six tons, and the
men had raiEed it to the fourth story, when suddenly
one of the " sheer legs" broke, and the ponderous
mass fell with a frightful crash, crushing everything
in its progress downward to the creek described.
Some idea may be formed of the immense weight
which fell, when it is stated that two large logs of
timber placed across the creek as a protection to the
saw-pit were completely snapped asunder.
The frightful crash which the falling
mass created
attracted the attention of every one within, and many
without the building, and on reaching the creek
several poor fellows were seen floating about . the
muddy water below, clinging to the
into
masses of floating
timber which had been carried it. From the
difficulty to get at them, upwards of a quarter of an
hour elapsed before any one could be rescued, and
when they were got out it was found by Mr. Thomp.
son, surgeon, of York-row, widen-lane, who was at
once sent for, that two of the men, named Green and
i
Rolfe, were so seriously injured that
was necessary.
Theyy weerto Universityho u t delay College
Hospitalconveyed
to the hospital on
shutters, where it was ascertained that Green had
both hi ankles broken, while his companion had sus-
tained very dreadful internal injuries. A third was
conveyed tohis own residence.
of
Some time having elapsed, it was deemed advisable
the works to call a muster of the
mbYent,he foreman
a young man named James Kendal, a car-
p( wet., was found to he missing. Drags were pro-
duced, and after dragging for about an hour the body
of the young man in question was found imbedded in
the mud, and, on being got out, it was discovered he
and a frightful lacerated wound over the left eye and
temple ; and as the poor fellow Kendal was a carpen-
ter, and was known to have been working on one of
the upper floors of the granary, it is believed that he
must either have been standing on some of the planks
which the girder struck at the time it fell, or that the
girder itself' must have struck him at the time of its
descent. The body was at once removed to the City
of York Tavern, where it awaits a coroner's inquest.