Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1877-02-24 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

BURY.  The village of Tottington, near Bury. was the scene on Sunday evening of a disaster which in voiced the destruction of two houses, the loss of one life, and injury to several persons. About eight o'clock in the evening two of the houses in a row of eight, at a locality known as Kirklees, euildenlv fell. The houses were built of brick, the pi r:o I of their erection dating about 76 years back. One of the houses was occupied by James Grime, block-printer, his wife, and three sous, aud a lodger; the other by Charles Man. tell, his wife, and seven children, and a married daughter with her husband (James Jacklin) and icfaut child. The whole of both families were at home at the time of the disaster with the exception of Mantell and Jackliu front the lastnamed house, mid one of the sons and the lodger from Grime's. The families were sitting by the hearth, when there wan a creak, immediately followed by the collapse of the roof and the falling partly in and partly out of the walls; so sudden that no one had time to stir a foot. The house occupied by Mantell first gave way anti the falling of the beams and other timbers brought down Grime's house. Fourteen or sixteen persons in all were in the houses at the time, and they were precipitated into the respective cellars, which formerly used to be occupied as dwellings. In Mantell's house two of the children were lying on a bed downstairs, and although they were carried with the roof and two floors into the cellars, and almost buried with the falling timbers, furniture, and debris, they escaped with only a few scratches, whilst the bedstead itself was destroyed. Mrs Idantell was injured by a falling beam, which struck her on the shoulder. The rest of the in mates escaped comparatively uninjured, as did two neighbours who were in the house at the time. These escapes were all the more marvellous inasmuch as the house was a much greater wreck than that in which Grime resided Grime and his family fell in a heap together into ,the cellar, along with the kitchen range and a number of heavy flags, and they were all wedged in among the miss, but a beam fell in such a manner as to protect them from a huge pile of broken brickwork. Grime's left arm was broken in two places by the fall, and he was badly cut on the head and bruised about the chest, but he succeeded in dragging himself out of the ruins, and then set up a cry of "Murder ! murder! Is there no one about ?" The head mechanic at Kirklees works, Robert Hayward, was the earliest on the spot to give as sistaace, and by his help Mrs. Grime and her son Henry. aged 11, were got out of this ruins, where they had been pinned down by woodwork and brickwork and a number of iron pane Mrs Grime Lied just lice head above the debris, anti her sou was weked is between her feet. Nothing could ;be seen of the other bey, John, aged 9, for 801110 time, but at last he was found lying dead on the cellar fluor, with two largo flags upon his back. Mrs Grime was injured about the neck and back, autl her right fore arm was severely Mimed by coal from the kitchen fire. With a few trifling exceptions, the whole of the furniture in both houses was demolished. Grime's son Henry was scalded by a pan of water, and he was also bruised on one leg. The whole of the injured persona are progressing favourably.  'l'namtr IitiLITATIODr.—The throat and windpipe are es pecially liable to inflammation, causing soreness and dry, nets, tackling and irritation, inducing cough and affecting the voice. For these symptoms use glycerine in the form of jujubes. Glycerine, in these agreeable confections, being in proximiiy to the glands at the moment they are excited by the not of sucking, becomes actively heaiing. ed. and ls. boxes (by post 11 stamps), labelled "J/eOlB