Star.
London, England, 1828-03-03 00:00:00

MOST DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

TROIS THE MAIOII4TER GUARDIAN.
We have this week the melancholy task of recording
one of the. most dreadful calamitous occurrences
that ever h.►ppened in this neighbourhood, in the over-
setting of a vessel launched hum the yard of the New
Quay Company, attended with the deaths of at least
thirty-four !Inman beings, all of whom have been de-

prived of existence, in a moment of festivity and re-
joking. Owing to the contusion which has prevailed
la the neighbourhood ever since this dreadful calamity.
it has not been easy to collect authentic information
respecting it; but we believe the following particulars
may be idled on.

It ilopeats that the New Quay Company, having pre-
pared to launch a new vessel, called the Emma, very
great preparations were made by their agents and work-
men to conduct the launch with mote than ordinary
eclat; and a very large assemblage of persons was con-
sequently collected to witness it ; of whom, it is supposed,
about two hundred were crowded together upon the
vets.l itself, being, in fact, as many as could stand upon
it. Exactly at one o'cli ck, the shores were knocked
away from the vessel, and she glided smoothly and ma-
jestically into the water, amidst, the shouts of the people
assembled around, and lively strains of music from a
military band which was in a. tendance. Miss Grimes,
the daughter of the pi incspal agent of the company,
had just pet formed the, usual ceremony of baptism,
when the scene of rejoicing was suddenly and most
lamentably changed. The vessel having rushed
ise'ross the narrow river with great velocity, took
the ground with her prow on the opposite bank; and
resting only on a small part of her keel, she suddenly
heeled on one side, and, being full rigged, and over-
•reighted with the immense number of persons who
crowded her decks, she turned on her side, and precipi-.
tated them in one mass into the water. The cry of
horror from the assembled multitude was absolutely
deafening, and the shrieks and cries from the poor
drowning creatures most appalling. There was an im-
mediate and geaeral rush to the b.,nks, and many
persons were plunged into the river, in the eager en•
deavour to tender assistance to the sufferers. Seve-
ral small boats, which had been used in assisting in
the launch, were put . out, and for twenty minutes or
more there was full employment for them, in rescuing
those who kept on the surface of the water by their awn
exertions, or by clinging to the rigging and the
different pieces of timber which floated about. But,
during this time, many had gone down ; and when the
atteotion of those about had ceased to be occupied with
those who were on the surface, the time had almost
gone by when assistance could be of any avail to them.
No exertions, however, were spared: boat-hooks and
poles were immediately procured, and the bodies of the
unfortunate sufferers were one by one drawn from
the water and conveyed, some into the Company's yard,
and others into the field on the opposite side of the
river; where (though little hope of success could be..
entertained), every exertion was used to resuscitate
them. Numbers of professional Gentlemen were quickly
on the spot,*and all usual meansjesorted to for the pore
pose of restoring suspended life, were put in practice;
but as far as we can learn, they were successful iu four

instances only. In addition to the common means used,
we believe, two dogs were bled to death, and the warm
blood injected into the veins of the throats of some of the
unfortunate sufferers, but without effect. An electrical
machine was also procured ; but unfortunately, from
some cause or Other, probably the dampness of the at.
mosphere..it would not work, and therefore no advan-
tage could be derived from it.
In the mean time, rumours of the dreadful calamity
had spread on every side; and brought crowds'of anxious
inquirers to the spot: parents came in search of their
missing children, wives for their husbands, and friends
inquiring for friends, who were known or supposed to
have been on the vessel ; and as they found their worst
fears verified, it was truly appalling to witness the ago-
nies of grief which many of them exhibited. Even those
who did not find their connections among the dead,were
in almost as painful a state as those who had nothing
left to hope ; for it was supposed that many more were
still in the water, and the suspense in which they were
thus left was. little short of being as agonizing as the
worst certainty.
By about three o'clock no more bodies appeared likely
to be found, but the endeavours were still unremitting,
end shortly after that time endeavours were made to
.raise upright the vessel, which continued lying upon
her side in the water; in t.,e attempt to do which the
'cable broke twice: she was, however, raised, and the
body of a girl made its appearance flora one of the
hatches. From that time until a late hour the search
for more bodies was unavailing. Independently of the
great number of persons taken out of the river who were
not materially injured, four teen we, e taken into the dock
yard on whom the exertions of the surgpons were re-
quired. Only two of these. we regret to say, were
recovered..' one of them a young lad whose name we
bare not learned. He, it seems, was not on the
vessel, but was near the bank of the river, and was
thrown in by the pressure of the crowd. The other,
a fine young man, named William Mouncey, a dyer,
had nearly lost his life through his intrepidity and
eager desire to save those of leis fellow.creatures.-1
He was a spectator of the launch, and rushed
into the water to save as many as he could ; he did
draw several out; being overcome by fatigue he fell into
a fit, from which the utmost exertions were scarcely able
to rescue him. The other twelve on that side were
past all recovery. Of those who were taken out on the
opposite side of the river, two were conveyed to the
Lying in Hospital, and were recovered. One of them,
an old man, named P.t,ick Taylor. was able to go
home, with assistance, in the course of the afternoon;
the other, %lad named Henry Bibby, living in New•
tonalane, was fetched home last night by his friends.—
Twenty-too other individuals, who were taken out ye
the same side of the river, atter every possible exertion,
was used for their recovery in the field, were taken, six.;
teen to the house of Mr. Kayo., the Britannia Tavern,
in Ordsall-lane, and six to the Boathouse, in Oldfield•
lane. Here, also, unremitting exertions were used for
their recovery, but we- are sorry to say, without the
slightest success.
A very respectable lo.iking Gentleman, dressed in a
blue coat with velvet collar, and drab trowers, was at
the bow, and was seen to fall head first into the water,
but we can hear of no one who has since seen him, and
from the numerous inquiries, after all the bodies
found were claimed, it is feared that some mere are
still in the water.
The following is a list of the persons who have lost
their lives, so tar as we have been ableto make out
their names

At UM IIITAVNIA ?MISR%
lames Dearden, Tickle-street. Deanspte, (man.)
James Dutton, 14, Newberry-street, (boy.)
John Butterworth, Quay.stfeet,(boy.)
Frederick Worrell, 457, Booth-street, SaIIIIrd, (boy.)
Rickard Walker, York-street, Belford, (man.).-.This elan saved the
lives of three individnals, and.perlabed in indeavourbig to WO
a .fourth.

Joseph Fryer,l6, Liverpool Road, (boy-)
holes Cosgrove, Christchurch-street, Dubow, (boy.)
Elizabeth Jones, Cross-street, Salford, (girl.)
Teresa Healey, Silver-street, lielnae, (woman.)
Joseph Calvert, Parliament-street, (boy.)
Elizabeth Rawlinson, Johnson-street, Salford, (married women.)
Ellen Shore, Union-street, Salford, (ditto.)
Ann Wharton, Mount Top, Jackson's-row, (girl). .
Mary Burnblsger Irwell-street, (woman.) •
John Hiiiiurst, 3, Deansgate, (man.)
James Henry, 33, Gould-street, (man.)
JIT !HE soAr•nousit.
Druid Sumner, 4, Silver-street, Hulme, (man).
Thomas Donnelly, Ness Mount-street, (boy).
Eliza Bradshaw, 17. New-street, Liverpool-road, (woman).
Samuel Bradbury, 36, Chester.roadi (boy).
Jesse Ilindley, 6, Green Bank, (boy).
John Bennet, 47, Silver-street, Huh', (boy). •

AT THZ tarn (WAY.
▪ Irlam, dyer, (man.)
Alangban, dyer, (man.)
Elizabeth Bothwell, (girl.)
Diana Pennington, (*.man.)
Fordyce, (boy.)
Frederick Brenton, (man.) •
▪ Atkinson, a shipping clerk, for some years in the service off
Messrs. Thomas Bache, and Co.—left a wife and seven children -
Five others are claisked, but we have not been able to ascertain
their names.