The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-04 00:00:00

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.
SIX PERSONS KILLED-UPWARDS OZ• THIRTEEN'
SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.

(From the Second Edition of Tuesday's Standard.)

This- morning about half-:past six O'clock a Most dreadful ac-
cident oecurred in Thomas-street, Pool-lane, it) this town, which
has occasioned the loss of the liveS of no less than seven per-
sons, and the serious injury of thirteen others, several of whom
are not expected to recover. The house situated at the corner
of Thomas-street, which was tenanted by a person of the name
of James Carlo, who sold groceries, bread, &c. in the shop to
the front of it, and let the upper and adjoining rooms to lodgers,
chiefly poor Irishinen and their families, was the scene of this
tnelancholyaccident. Inforthation was given at the Police-oflice
at thetime above stated by one of the duck police that the
ing had fallen down, and buried upwards 430 pelSonsin the ruins.
Upon- going to the spot, the boiling presented a laces of ruins.
Several of the unfortunate inmates were cr)ing in the Most
piteous manner for assistance, while the cries of the relatives
of those of them whom it was too certain wete lying (lead upon
the spot buried in the ruins, we:e heart-reuciieg beyond de-
scription. Several of the persons who had lodged in the house
last night, had only arrived from Ireland yesterday, and were
on their way to America and New SOuth Ntiales. Flow many
of them have been killed we have not been able to learn, but
from what we can. gather from one or two of the men who es*
caped without injury, four out of the six killed were about
to emigrate; and had recently cane to Liverpool for that pur-
pose. Ant.tony Carlin, a boy about 13 years of age, son of
the landlord, lies dead in a house opposite to the rains; he slept
iu the garret of the house. His father escaped without injury;
bat his mother has been conveyed to the lofirmary. A poor
woman, wire of one of the lodgers, fortunately, as it has
happened, quarrelled with her husband last night, when she left
the house with one of her chi,dren, to which she, no Mark, owes
the preservation of her own life and that of her child. James
Healey, a tailor, who had lived some time in the house, lies
dead in the same room as the boy Carlin. James Stockman,
a labouring man, about 3'5 years of age, lies in the Northern
Hospital. labouring
has received a severe wound on the back part of
his head, and is otherwise serioesly injured in his bark and
limbs. A %r.houring roan, named -tiommerlield, and his wife,
lie in the sane house dead, together wbb another Mal) of the
name of Owen Conlin, who was employed in the ducks as a
ship scraper. Michael M'Noughioa, who ot copied the cellar
underneath the building, together writ), his wife and four
children,' have all Leen providentially saved.
The escape of 111`Naughton aud• his family has been most
miraculous. Thee, it appea:s, bad all slept lit tire upper part
of the cellar, and on the house falling, the floor of the kitchen
fell entire in a standing position, one side of the floor being
supported by the rafters against the wall at its original eleva-
tion, the oilier end of the rai.!ers on the side of die house which
fell out red!iu ng on_the ground. On re.ov ;rig the robbish from
.
one end of ;he whole of the siri, along with two pigs, walked
out no injii,•ed. One of the inmates of the opposite house was
looking out of his window at the time the accident occur red, and
saw the outer wall crack outwards towards Sough John-street,
Immediately a'te.-wards a sailor in the failing building, the one
who had quarrelled tviih hiS w;fe, inshed to the window, burst
open the sash, and threw himself out, clinging only byliis hands
previously to jouipieg- (hiw it, when at the same moment the
corner of the hou.:, h-itn, and buried him enderneath_
an instant longer and be would have been saver]. ruler one
of the bedstocks, which supports a quantity of rubbjsb, are two
pigs, which appear unhurt. The seclie of the ruin itself baffles
description. Beds. old tables, old elm hing, lea trays, and halt
all tithed up with rubbish. Quite: in the corner, at, the upper
side of the ruin, is a part which has nut Wien in, and the pots,
tea-cups, and candlesticks arranged in a closet in this corner
present a sitanav appearance to the confusion and inivaround.
The sight in tire house
,opposite,' where the birdies have been
conveyed to, is most shraling. Pour lie dead on the floor, and
on a chair is IN? boy Catlin, covered only by a few scanty
rags, besmeared will .blOod and rubbish; and in, a house next
door lies the body of the sailor.

Nine of the sufre,ers we, e conveyed to the Infirmary and one
to the Northern Hospital, and three others to priva:e houses
At the Infirmary there are five men, four women, and two
children The names of the sufferers are, Marcella Joyce, hav-
ing a severe con ilsion on the back ; Maly at.; o. having
severe contusion on the left hip, and gent, ailv much
• bruised; Bridget. Carlin, the landlady of the house;severely
bruised on the hip and general contusion ; Bridget O'Hara,
the upper part of the left atm and generally mach contused,
particularly about the body. She is not expected to recover.
lrwo children of Joyce's were not much bruised. The men's
names are John Searstield, James Martin, Wm. Gill, Thomas
Bone, and Patrick I•Ardle, all of whom are generally cruised
about the limbs and bc,dy, but not seriously so. From the state-
ment of one of the sufferers, it appeals that the house fell at once
without the slightest warning as the majority of them were get-
up.
, The came of the falling of the building has not yet been
ascertained. It is, however, supposed that the foundation of
time house had been somewhat 'undermined by an excavation
which was going forriard immediately adjacent to the ruins.