New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-04
ENGLAND.
Miraculous Escape of Four Hundred Latter
Day Saints.

NEWPORT, July l3.-Yesterday even
Ing most remarkable occurrence took place here.
which while appeared involve the lives of three or
four hundred persons, did not inct the slightest injury
on a single individual
The Lstterdsy Saints or Mormones have of late
years greatly increased in the colery districts ia the
neehborhood OF this place that organised body nov
exits here with elders and prophets at their head and
aregulsly constituted government 70 direct their splr
iiual and temporal affairs.
Annually these people held conference At which
the chiefs of the body assemble, and communications
with their brethren 10 other quarters are made
This year some OF the elders who had been In the
camp on the borders of the Great Salt Lake were ex
pected at the Newport conference and preparations
an extensive scale for their reception and for the eens
raj celebration OF the festival were bsing carried out
IL was also expected, amb guIusy hintei IN mira
cles would be performed and the credulOus Welsh,
ever Tesdy 10 follow any new tangled doctrine gave
ear thereto as believers.
Yesterday evening after the concu,ion of one o. the
services the brethren the ssus and the elders assem-
blea together in large building kno the Sander
land ball. where IL intended celebrate the o.ca
sion by tea festival on great scale
About lOur hundred persons (men, women aud chill
dreI were sitting down, after blessing mad LOen in
VoEed by the elders, and pleasant ,tVy was N let
psten suddenly creshDg noise was heard, toiiJvcd
Asouod Ike crash OF tluuder, and immediately the
ioiy ceiling Of exactly One-half the hall divided In the
center OF large oesm, fell almost tat upon the mi
tud- belOw.
terrific shreklrg and screaming and er5aniag en-.
succ. The residents Ia the neghborhood, appreheui-
inR some ishful casus ty rushed of their hluser
ana were almost paralyzec by the continued screams
ana eroans. Presently the Windows were burst our,
and the sfnghted Mormuns appeared terrified aud
screaming for help. while some actually dung them.
selves INTO toe street. and others cinging to tle ss
and ff6mes, made those below shudder a. their antc
pated death or ffightia mutilston.
scene OF Undesirable horror ensued. The Gro vi
perpetrators rushed toward tue doors Of the bali which
tney ouIst In As well they able from thc
u rubbish, &c, that hsd fallen nsde; sni here the
spectacle YVES trishtful 10 the extreme The people
we're huodleo together In wds beneath the tables
,olAs cTo~ding To the wndOws-sOme rushing to-
80 - Ne uooIs-as many struggling - ext cae the IL
$500 HVIn the heaps Of broken rafters, ne &C.
"s "h'eh they were embedded Assistance was
suoe9, and stler much difficulty the unfortunate
GitiOn. -i '-0'' PO'"1NS O"n
ms most remarkable that not a SINGLE Latter day
ISN'T received any injury from this accident altbousn
.he ctnug gas hen'y and quite on ehslf of the all
ing OF TIE whole ball. while attached tbers,o sa-, w.
neaIy Phces OF timber which mad previously snno,rted
u Is also singuer that the port On OF ma calm be
nea,h which the elders or prophets sat was ner
hoily uDiI jured and sound POI
Nothing lees than miracle Is supposed by the nf,r
s.eo lhter0sy Saints 10 have preserved so large num-
" Persons from the iaie Of death which appeared
le'''Aolei sDGs greet reaction IN their favor will be