The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-07 00:00:00

NOTTINGHAM.-MONDAY.

Tho following horses have arrived :—Gladiolus, The
Greek, Ochiltree, Miss Deans, Princess Royal, Ancient
Briton, Starbeck, The Speaker, Rhisus, Mushroom, Wea-
therwise, Jealousy, Tease, Lifeboat, Artevelde, The Don,
and Lady Well.

MALTON.—Queen Charlotte and Naughty Boy's dam
colt have left here for Nottingham.

ANOTHER FATAL FIRE IN MARYLE-

BONB.

Another calamitous fire, unfortunately attended
with the loss of three human lives, and serious, if
not fatal consequences to several persons, broke out
between the hours of three and four o'clock yester-
day (Sunday) morning, in the Great Portland Wino
and Spirit Stores, or Horse and Groom Tavern, No.
SO, Great Portland-street, Marylebone, the pro-
perty of Mr. John Price.
The building, including the basement cellar, was
five floors in height, and may be described as being
a double house, as the frontage was nearly twice
.the width of those adjoining on either side.
The discovery appears to have been made almost
simultaneously by the police-constable on the beat
and Mrs. Price, the landlady, who was in bed at
the time. The latter suddenly awoke, experiencing
a suffocating sensation. Before she had time to
arouse her husband she heard the police knocking
at the door and ringing the bells leading to differ-
ent parts of the establishment. Mr. and Mrs. Price
immediately jumped out of bed, and, opening the
door of their sleeping room, they found flames in
such huge bodies ascending the staircase, that it
was found utterly impracticable for any one to de-
scend by the stairs. Mr. Price and his wife cried
out " Fire ! fire!" and they appear to have suc-
ceeded in making all persons in the house sensible
of their impending danger, as there is no doubt
they all made an attempt to escape, but were, owing
to the violence of the flames, unablet odo so. At
that time there were in the building the landlord
and his wife, their two children ; Robert Moon, the
potinan ; Sarah Jones, the servant girl ; a lodger
named Jasper Partis, aged 60, a journeyman
painter ; with Thomas Cooper and Samuel Binns,
one a lodger and the other a nephew of the former
proprietor of the house (Mr. Price).
About 150 yards from the building stood one of
the Royal Society's escapes, and Mitcheleno, the
conductor, reached the place in less than two
minutes after being called. Notwithstanding that
so short a space of time had elapsed, the fire, when
the escape arrived, appeared to have taken com-
plete possession of every room at the back, as well
as several rooms in the front of the house. Mitche-
leno at once affixed his escape against the premises,
and, amid the applause of all present, succeeded in
bringing down in his machine in safety Mr. and
Mrs. Price and their two children. He had hardly
succeeded in doing so when a tremendous crash and
breaking of glass at the back of the premises were
heard, which at first was thought to have been
caused by the roof falling in, but which subse-
quently turned out to have been occasioned by a
lodger having jumped out of one of the upper win-
dows and fallen through a skylight over the skittle-
alley. This poor fellow was so terribly cut and
otherwise injured by the glass that he was sent to
the Middlesex Hospital, where he at present re-
mains in a very precarious state.
The conductor, the moment after saving the four
persons before mentioned, made a vigorous attempt
to get out the other three or four persons known to
be in one of the upper rooms. Having ascended
the top of his escape he was in the act of entering
the third floor when the flames shot through the
windows of the second floor, and fired the machine.
To save his own life, Mitcheleno was compelled to
make a precipitate retreat the best way he could.
Fortunately he reached the ground not much in-
jured, but nearly suffocated with the heated smoke.
At that moment the Well-street brigade engine
came up, and the conductor, addressing Mr. Giraud,
the engineer, said he had done all he could, but
could do nothing more ; he was, however, quite
certain that there were several other persons in the
house, but to reach them was now impossible,
owing to the flames coming out so fiercely from the
windows.

A few minutes before the arrival of the first engine
loud and frantic screams for help could be heard
proceeding not only from the top but also from the
bottom of the premises; but the only additional-aid
in saving life that then could be rendered was to
pull through the ground floor window the man be-
fore alluded to and and another one, who was like-
wise so fearfully injured as to be obliged to be re-
moved to the hospital.
The various barrels of spirits having become
ignited, the liquid.proved such a powerful auxiliary
to.the conflagration that the flames shot out of the
upper windows both back and front, as well as
through the roof, and threw such a glare over the
whole of London as to communicate the intelli-
gence to every engine•house belonging to the bri-
gade at the same moment, and Mr. Braidwood, Mr.
Staples, the foreman of the district, and various
engineers started for the scene of danger with six
powerful engines of the London establishment, the
firemen being guided on their way only by the
intense light in the atmosphere.
Fortunately an immediate and abuidant supply
of water was procured from the fire plugs in the
district, and the brigade, under the direction of
their superior officers, taking advantage of it, had
their engines soon in operation ; but, in spite of the
torrents of water thrown upon and into the blazing
pile, the flames continued to spread. The firemen,
however, kept to their work, but some hours elapsed
before they could get the mastery over the fire, and
not until the whole of the back part of the house
was consumed, and the front part partially de-
stroyed. The total loss is very considerable.
As soon as the ruins were partially cooled,
Giraud and some of the firemen went in search of
the persons known to be missing, and they found
them in the middle of the ruinsburnt almost to a
cinder. The remains were removed to the dead-
house to await the coroner's inquest.
The following is a list of the dead and injured :
Burnt to death—Robert Moon, the potman, aged
28 ; Sarah Jones, the servant girl, aged 25 ; Jasper
Partis, aged 60, a journeyman painter, who was a
lodger.
Injured "(in the hospital)—Thomas Cooper and
Samuel Binns.

The brigade authorities during the morning made
a very searching inquiry for the purpose, if pos-
sible, of finding the cause of the fire, but have as
yet been unable to do so. They have, however, no
doubt, from the inspection they have since made of
the ruins, that it began at the back of the bar, and
that the flames then rushed up the staircase: firing
in rapid succession the different rooms.
The house of Mr. Williams, al and eolourmany
and the Et stern District Schools have both sus-
tained some damage, but not to a serious extent. '