The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1867-02-13
THE GREAT LONDON DISASTER.
Details Of the Awful Catastrophe on
the Ice Lake In Regents Park.

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Inc most interesting feature Is the 'ol
lowing description OF the dreadful accident
on skating pond a, Regents Park, Lon
don. ,s.Av r-E.,,eJ 10 bsrs,oI,.. hr
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Yesterday one OF the most awful
scalamitiss ever known in the metropolis
took place IN the Regents Park, where,
toy the s'mu.aueo,s' giving way OF the
whole OF the ice on the lake, at least two
hundred people wste thrown into the WA
ter at once, and from twenty to forty per-
sons drowned. The scenes were most
startling and harrowing
Women rushed about on the banks
scream'ng out that their children OF hus
oaods or brothers were drowning, aud
'mploring hep to save them. Boys and
girls stood hysercA''y crying and wiring
ing Their bands, and exclairning, "Oh,
look at father! O.', fsiher.tfather l' and
giving expressions to other heartrsnding
eHc'afhaoons; and strong men conval
s'Ve'y appealed 10 those who had no
means OF he'p, ana pointed out friends
ana re'a'lons struggling IN the asonies OF
death: Only those who, like the writer,
were on The spot, and saw with Their own
eyes ~h"t look place, can form an ade
quate Idea OF the calamity which in an
Instant placed two hundred persons at the
very gates o. death, almost within arms
reacn OF those who were rslatedio them
oy the closest lies, but who were yet, in
most cases oo''ged TO stand Oy and see
tnem nShuny desperately Tor lie, and
gradnaHy succumb'ng or waiting passive
~ e'"g'"g 10 pieces OF Ice TIL they be
came 'nsens'o'e and lost their hold.
By hait.Past three O'Clock the ice
showed unmstakab'e signs ol breaking
up 1t was cracked to such an extent
that there was not sound piece OF more
than foot or SO broad, aud the crac ks
were clearly marked by The water which
rose through them. These alarming
symptoms were nol'ced by everybody,
ahd many VINO h"d sense cnouS', made
'hssDe'' o' the'r way OIL expressing their
oP'h'oh rs they ola SO that the ice would
not last many minutes longer. Even these
many instances go' we''ng IN get.
""g oa' "l d.nSe,' Tor win hHfd', an
exception Tue leo HAD parted from tue
sbore nsh, round the lake' No'with
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