The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-04 00:00:00

lEADFUL ACCIDENT—LOSS of LIVES.

Yesterday afternoon, between live and six o'clock,
a most dreadful accident occurred at the house No.
106, Pall-mall, lately occupied as a Club-house, by -
the falling in of the third floor of the house, which
unfortunately killed two men employed on the pre-
mises. The house is a few doors westward of the
site of Carlton Palace, and has lately been sold in
lots with others, for building materials, by order of
the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, to make
way for the new improvements in Pall-mall. Three
men were employed on the third floor, in pulling
down the house, and the roof had been got off with
safety. The men wtre then pulling down some
heavy cornices, and part of the back and font
wall, with which they had overloaded the floor on
which they were at work, when on a sudden it gave
way with a most tremendous crash,- which alarmed
the whole neighbourhood, carrying with it the.
second and first' floors, and in an instant the whole
interior of the house was in a mass of ruins, and
the three men at . Work on the third floor were
buried in the rubbish. The alarm was general in
the neighbourhood, and a man who was. fortunately
at work off the flooring, stood on the sill of a win-
dow and was saved ; a lad also escaped, who was
at the time on a parapet, assisting-in 'pulling down
the house. The utmost . exertions were instantly
used to dig the three men out of the ruins who had
fallen with the floor, aml in a few minutes a man
named EdWard Foster was dug out alive, - severely
injured, but_ we understood
,not dangerously : he
was immediately conveyed on a shutter to St.
George's Hospital. The workmen continued their
exertions, and between six and seven o'clock •the
bodies of two other men were dug out, mutilated in
a most dreadful manner, and carried to the Gout
Tavern, in Pall mall, nearly opposite to where the
accident occurred. A surgeon was sent. for imtne-
diately, who pronounced them to be quite dead.
The tunnes:of the unfortunate•sufferers- are, Wtn.
Andrews, aged about 20, and John Griggs, an elderly
man. The escape of the man and boy above men-
tioned was most miraculous, as the shock of the Lill-
, ing floors was sufficient to have precipitated them
I.om their standing place; fortunately, however, they
were soon rescued from their perilous situation with-
out having sustained any injury. The front and
' back Walls of the house are still standing.
• An inquest will be held on the bodies of the suf-
ferers to-morrow (this day).,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

TUESDAY, Jca 2.—High water 32 minutes past
eleven o'clock.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the. Jessie,
from Mobile ; John Viana, Edwards, from Palermo ;
Magdalena, from Smyrna; Maria Adtiana, --,
from Rotterdam.
CI.Y.AnED OUTIVARDS.-ne John, Cairn, for Doug-
las ; Ninny, Fowler, for Rio Janeiro; Wilhelmina Mats-
den, ___—, for El6incur.
Passed Holyhead, inward hound, the James Cropper,
from Virginia.
Passed Holyhead, inward hound, yesterday the Ann,
—_—, from Lisbon.
PICTOU, MARCH B.—There is yet a deal of. drift ice in
the Gulf, and the ships which have arrived represent the
ice on the Banks of Newfoundland and on the coast to be
unusually heavy. Sonic were beset in it as far south as
42. The ship or hark Bolivar, Henze!, bound to Mira-
michi, put into Tatmagush about ten days bask to keep
clear of ice, and remains there to load,

Arrived off the Wight, the Lord Lowther, Stewart
from China, sailed the 19th of January, and Cape 0
Good Hope the 25th of March.