The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-25 00:00:00

THE LATE FATAL STEAM-BOAT
ACCIDEN T.

On Wednesday an inquest was opened, before Mr. Payne, on
the bodies of David Davis, aged 37, Benjamin James, aged 20,
and Thomas Richards, aged 28, the three men belonging to
the Culloden who were drowned by the upsetting of a small
boat, some particulars relative to which appeared in Tile Sun
of yesterday.
Enoch Evans, and not Jones, as stated in our impression of
yesterdaY, the man who was in he boat with the deceased per-
sons when • the accident happened, was test examined, an/
stated that be belonged to the Mary and Margaret, of South
Wales, and that at the time of the accident he was unloosing
the mooring chain from the ring. Whilst so employed a steam-
boat passed, and the boat filled with the swell and capsized. He
jumped out, and was saved by Welling hold of a waterman's
boat. He saw the other men go down with the tide, and saw
the boat, in which they had been, sink. The accident would
not have happened if it bid not been for the swell. The water
came over the stern of the boat and filled it. The Culloden.
was the second vessel in the tier from the Surrey shore.
William Williams, captain of the Milford Packet, lying neat
to the Culloden, in the same tier, said he was looking over
his vessel into the boat. The men in it were close to the
mooring chain, whets the swell from the steamer caused the
stern of the boat to get, under the chain, and pressed hew
down into tie water.. He afterwards saw the men picked
up, and they were then dead. There was more swell that
general.
Ephraim Keeling, of 5, Sarnell's-place, Honleydown, said,
about half-past ten o'clock he saw a small boat off George's.
stairs, when he saw the Isle of Thanet Margate steam-beat
pass at an easy rate, and did not make much swell. He looked
up the .river and saw a great surf coming down,_ and.
the Prince of Wales Margate steamer off Old ROse Pier.
She was going at a great rate, and witness called out to a
man to take care of his boat. He •turned round and saw a
boat with four men in it sink. The Prince of Wales was then
off the tier where the Caloden was lying. The boat with
the four in it was not more, than sixty or seventy feet from
the stern of the Culloden when the accident happened. It was
the surf occasioned by the quick rate the Prince of Wales was
going that caused the boat to sink. It was his opinion she
was going ten or twelve knots an hour, a very improper rate
to go at in the Pool. It was the water that she sent before
her that caused the accident, by the tightening of the chain of
the Culloden., Whilst towing .to 'the assistance of the men in
the water, the Riby, Gravesend boat, came down, and took his
boat completely out of the water, and thus prevented him.
There was more swell than he had ever seen before; be should
say that the surf rolled on the shOre four feet high. The boat
was about sixteen feet long, and was a regular ship's boat.
Inspector Maddox, one of the Thames-police, and two other
witnesses, gave similar testimony.
Mr. Bodily, secretary to the London and Margate Steer.
packet Company, said that he was on board the Prince of
Wales, on Tuesday ,morning, Captain Henry Ford being is
command of her. He .was on the paddle-box and did not
leave it from the vessel leaving London until she arrived
at Blackwall. The time kir her arrival at the latter place is a
sinarter. before eleven, and her time for leaving London-bridge
ten o'clock, but she genirally. gets, to Blackwell 'five Minutes
before tho quarter. -He did not. bear of the accident until that
(Wednesday) morning., , .Neither the captain or any one OD,
board the steamer knew of the accident when it oeetweed. The
vessel is a fast.going one, and war going at
.her initial pace.
The Islenf Titanelleftliicholinieg-wharf the-same time
,
to
the Prince of
Wales, hos,,,Louilon.bridge. • The former vessel
to leave Blaciwall.at
,balf:past ten, and the
arrived at Blackwell Aria, tba part of the. Company he had
quarter eleven. The distance from
to express their deep regret foe the accident. Th. Isle •f
PrinceT of Illietaestteoißtla'ack wall- is six miles end alaalf.
The jnquiry was adjourned until Friday (this day) a, sit
0,10c.k, for further evidence.

TDB FOREIGN MAILS. 4 MEDITERRANEAN AND
Duna MAILS.—The next rttati,for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the
lonian Islands, Eqpt, Ceylon, India and China, via Southampton.
will liir'dispistched"On Ai evening of the 2d of August. The next
mails for the Mediterranean Egypt, Ceylon, India; anctChina, aid
Marseilles, will be dispatched .this-,lPltilillt.c-SYDNDY. AND New
,SouTtt WALES—The Dublin for the mails et the 31st-instant.—
WIST Imati—The Forth isleamer far the mails of the 2d of
August.—AllEßlCA—The Hibernia steamer for tb,malls•of the
4th August. -
ESCAPE OF.A LuNArrlc.—On 'Wednesday morning
the Inhabitants of Westbonrne.street, Pimlico, were alarmed by a
man who wan declaiming in-the most h crrib!e and blasphemous lan.
guage, and otherwise ..exhibiting the strongest symptoms of in.
sanity. After having attacked 'struck Which Stood in his way, he
ran towards a drayntan, who was: in the act of letting a butt down
one-of the cellars of the Pine-apple, and nearly knocked him into
it'; and then catching hold -of a horse, began to-beat It about the
head, until he was 'taken intb sotto:131 by seiskil poliCemen end
others, who providentially came up _before .any serious accident
occurred, It appeared that the 'poor fellow bad only Just broken
out of an asylum • in•th'e neighbourhood. - He-wastonveyed with
the•utmost difficulty to ,the stationAouse, and' afterwards earfied
back ins cab; underlbe+-osiewoflit keeper, to the Salem trhenew
belnkasomped., n 113 .IVA t,.11,1 .I', •

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