The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-18 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

THE GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AT THE
REGENT'S-PARS.

LATEST PARTICULARS—This EVENING.
It is our painful duty to have to record a further
addition to the list of fatalities from this terrible ac-
cident. Since the account in our first edition was
written three other bodies have been recovered and
identified, as follows :

S Lame' Holley, 20, wood turner, 98, Balsovcr-
street, Portland-place.
William Robertson, 40, of 31, Stanhope-street,
Hampstead-road.
Harrold Giles, 16, of 76, St. Paul's-road, Canon-
bury.

Making up to six o'cl._?ck this evening no less than
41 bodies recovered.

A poor woman, the wife of Edward Crook, 49,
Caledonian-road, called on Mr. Douglas, at the
Marylebone Workhouse, and told him that the dead
body of her husband was lying at the Middlesex
Hospital. He was taken there alive, but died soon
after the same evening.
To the list of missing published in our afternoon
edition, we have now to add the names of—

John n atts, 21, labourer, 18, Brooke-street,
.ampstead-road.

Henry Bizet, 15, Gilbert-street, Berkeley-square.
A lady named Egerton called at the workhouse
and stated she saw her two brothers go down
when the ice broke, neither of whom have been
recovered.

This morning amidst the falling of the pelting
snow the melancholy work was resumedpn the or-
mental water in the Regent's Park. As time
wears on the operations do not diminish in severity,
but rather, on the contrary, they increase. The
surface of the water was again re-frozen, and all
the work done in the early part of yesterday
had to be re-performed to-day. As soon as
a portion of the water was cleared of ice,
which is still being carted away as rapidly as pos-
sible, the drags were put in operation, and after an
hour's work the body of a lad, apparently between
14 and 15 years of age, was brought to the surface,
landed, and conveyed to Marylebone workhouse.
Another hour's hard work, and the frightful iron
hooks of the drags brought up another body, but in
this instance that of a man apparently in the prime
of life ; and, in a few minutes after another body', was
fished up, but unfortunately, before it could be
lifted from the water into the boat, it slipped
from its holding, and sank again to the bottom
of: the [lake. With the two bodies recovered,
and the one lost, the terrible list of actual deaths now
amounts, up to 1 o'clock to-day, to 39 ; and, from
the numerous inquiries that have been made
within the last few hours at the workhouse; there
seems little hope that the list of dead will fall far
ehort of fifty. A fresh danger had to be
guarded against to-day—the snow, which had
fallen during the early hours of the morning
made to launch another boat a work of great
difficulty and danger —to assist those who had
been working on the water since daybreak.
An amateur preacher this morning made his
appearance in front of the water, and began to hold
completely obliterated the gravel paths of the park,
and it was only by the greatest exertion on the part
of the police that persons whose curiosity had led
them to the park to witness the operations
of those engaged in dragging for the bodies
were prevented from walking into the water, the snow
having fallen on the refrozen ice made it in parts
quite impossible to distinguish the boundary of the
lake from the land. Police-constables were placed
in the most dangerous parts ; yet, notwithstanding
this precaution, the work of preventing further acci-
dents was not easy. The attendance of spectators
in the park was still very great ; the predominant
number, of course, being those who had the ap-
pearance of being connected with building opera-
tions now suspended on account of the frost.
They, for the most part, looked on with quietness
and decorum, and the only misplaced attempt
at joking took place when an effort was being
forth, no doubt with the best intentions, but as his
oratory only collected a not very attentive crowd
where it most required that no obstruction should
exist he was directed to desist, and he then
betook himself to distributing tracts amongst
the mixed congregation his loud talking had
called together. The regulations of the park seem
all to be relaxed, and vendors of hot coffee,
and soup made a display of their peculiar compounds
on the park seats as near as possible to the scene of
the accident, and from the great avidity with which
their smoking liquids were swallowed down they
must have carried on a very brisk trade.
Another kindness has been added to those
already performed by Mr. Douglas, the master of
the Marylebone Workhouse. A number of poor
fellows, Humane Society men, and others who
have lost or had their clothes destroyed
during the excitement caused by the accident,
have received articles of wearing apparel in place of
those they have lost entirely at his expense. A
number of charitable persons have also given in their
names at the workhouse, with directions that where
they can reader assistance in deserving cases they
are quite ready to do so.
The two dead bodies taken in this morning have
been identified ; they are those of
Frank Glonfield, 15, of 18, Francis-street, Tot-
tenham-court-road.
James Jobson, 35, painter, 30, Freeling-street,
Caledonian-road.
The inquiries this morning at the workhouse after
missing relatives and friends have been most dis-
tressing. The following is a list which has been
given in to Mr. Douglas of those persons who have
not been at home since Tuesday morning, and who,
it is too much to be feared, were upon the ice when
it broke.
George Tasker, aged 25, of 15, Clarence-street,
Waterloo-town, Mile-end.
Charles Meakin, 11, of 31, Gloucester-street,
Clerk enwell.
John Ilford, 21, Charringion-street, Euston-
square.
Frederick Hayes, 25, 8, llarland-street, Kings-
land-road.
A gentleman, linen marked Box, 96, Upper
Eburstreet, Pimlico.
Isaac, 22, of 24, Francis-street,
Tottenham-court-road.
William Robertson, 40, 24, Stanhope-street
Hampstead-road.
James Anderson, address, 20,
mercial-road, East. King's-place Com-
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The " Man with the Pipe," in a letter to a eon-
temporary, says As far as lam concerned, of
having offered £5O to any one who would fetch
my
me out, I merely called for help when I felt myself
becoming benumbed after waiting quietly for fully
25 minutes, watching the boats picking up others
who were, if possible, in greater danger than
myself, and also the futile, and, I must
say, blundering efforts of the society's men
to reach me, or even throw me a rope.
I am truly thankful to the two gentlemen who so
courageously threw themselves into the broken ice
to my rescue, but failed to reach me, and I think it
only an act of justice to Geurge Charles Matthews,
of 139, Caledonian-road, who eventually did rescue
me, that his name should be made public, and I
consider that if any one is entitled to a Society's
medal he is, considering the courage ho displayed,
being himself unable to swim.

Tho greatest wonder in the State of lowa is the
Walled Lake," which is three feet higher than the
rth's surface, and occupies 1,900 acres. It has
eaot yet been ascertained where the water comes
Prom or where it goes to, yet it always remains fresh
fand clear,