The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-21 00:00:00

THE LATE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT
THE ROYAL SURREY GARDENS

' ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.—Tats DAY.
The excitement in the neighbourhood of the Royal
Surrey Gardens in consequence of the late melancholy
and fatal accident has scarcely abated anything. The
wicident is still the subject of general conversation,
and the hope that a searching investigation will take
place as to its origin, and if possible lead to the punish.
rnent of the offenders, pervades all classes. Anxious
inquiries are also made after the sufferers, and each
day adds to the number of those already known. One
poor woman, whose name is unknown, but is supposed
to reside in Fenchurch-street, and was severely injured
at the time, there is too much reason to fear has since
died from the injuries she received.
The reckless manner in which many escaped from the
windows on to the balcony in front of the ornamental
water is almost incredible, and it is a miracle that more
serious injury and death did not result from it. Amongst
others already published we have heard of that of a re-
spec•able female who, in escaping by what appeared to
her at the time the most ready means, inflicted a fright-
ful wound on her face, completely laying
open the bone
a considerable length. She was found by Mr. Superin•
tendent Lund in an exhausted state, the blood streaming
copiously from her face, and he immediately conveyed
her to the office of Mr. Tyler, the manager of the
grounds, close by, where a surgeon was in attendance,
who sewed up the wound, and the unfortunate female
was shortly after able to make her way home, but in the
consternation that prevailed she left without leaving her

name or address.
It will be recollected that amongst the deaths was
VIA of a little boy, who accompanied his father to the
Gardens. The grief and agony of the parent at the
sudden bereavement of his child was, as was natural
ander the circumstances, the most poignant and heart-
rending, and arrested the attention of numbers whilst
seeking safety in flight, but as yet no intelligence has
been received at the station of his name and address.
The little girl, stated in our morning contemporaries
as highly respectably dressed, and said to have received
severe injuries and was unable to give her name at the
time, or the address of her patents, has, since her recep-
tion in Guy's Hospital, given her name as Margaret
Reston, of Hoxton. She states that ehe went to the
Hall in company with her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Mead,
of 7, Love-lane, Stockwell, who, it will be recollected,
is one of the unfortunate individuals who lost her life.
The poor little child is only suffering, we are happy to
state, from a slight scalp wound and fright.
Several of the articles of dress torn from the
wearers in the general rush to escape, and after-
wards found strewed about on the floor of the hall, have
been identified by the losers and restored to them.
The public need be under no apprehension of a similar
gathering at the gardens on Sunday next. Mr. Spurgeon
will not, it is feared, be in a state to preach there or any
other place on Sunday next ; and, if he be sufficiently.
recovered from the mental excitement which he is at
present labouring under from this untoward circum-
stance, he certainly will not be at the gardens.
THE INQUEST. •
This afternoon an inquest was opened by Mr. Carter,
the coroner of the district, and a respectable jury, taken
from the most respectable inhabitants of the neighbour.
hood, at the Board-room of the Newington Workhouse.
The room was densely crowded during the afternoon,
and the workhouse was surrounded during the whole of
the time by a dense crowd of persons, whom the fright-
ful nature of the accident had drawn to the spot.
After hearing evidence, which went only to the identi-
fication of the bodies, the inquiry was adjourned.