Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-09-11 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FIRE AT ST. PETERSBURG. The Noroesti, just received, thus describes the destruction of a five-story cigar manufactory at St. Petereburg: 'The horrors of the Legovka lire have been repeated again within a short distance of the locality of that outbreak. Shapshal's cigar manu• tactory caught lire on the 23rd ult. There is only one staircase and one exit to the place, and, incredible as it may seem, when the workpeople came streaming down the stairs to escape, the officials closed the door and refused to allow any to pass out without being scorched to see whether they had tobacco secreted on their persons. Scenes of the wildest excitement ensued. Many of the werlspeople threw themselves, out of the windows to toe ground. One girl descended from the fifth storey by means of a water-pipe, and although struck on the head by a tile in her dement. managed to preserve her eonsciousnesse, and rea-hed the ground in cutely. When the door was at last opened one girl wee found to have been trodden to death, nine persons killed. and many other. more or leas eeriously injured." Other papers nay that the mob was to enraged with the officials for cloei g the door that but for the police they would have lynched them. ! A later report in the Noooe Vremyn says that nine people were killed, fifteenseriously injured, and twenty! six more or less bruised and burned. Two women and one girl were found at the bottom of tie staircase . trodden out of shape. The manufactory was insured for half a million roubles. The Nouse Vremys p.b. lichee a powerful leader on the conflagration, declaring . that "Shapshal and hie aseietants are morally guilty of ' the murder of the victims, and demands that steps ! should be taken to punish them." Of th 700 persons employed in the manufaetory 600 were girls under the age of 20.  REWARDS FOR BRAVERY; The following is a Beta the recipients of the bronze and silver medals conferred by the Chanter of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, as rewards for raving life on land: Elijah Hallam and Frederick Vickero, for gallantry in a coal pit accident at Chesterfield; Deputy Commissary John Smith Young, for saving a wounded German at the Bridge of Boson.; George Gates, for saving two men from gam poison in a sewer at Battevsea; Thomas E. Wales (Inspector of Mines for South Wales), John W. Howell, leaae Pride, Wiliam Beith, and Daniel Thomas, for rescuing imprisoned miners in the Tsnewydd C•lliery ; George Pannore, for seizing and eecurnig a mad dog which had bitten several persons at Hertford; Stephen Little, a police constable of the E Division, for rescuing a lunatic woman from a fire in Gray's-inn-lane: Arthur H. Stokee,Charles Maltby, John Hancock, Thomas Davis, and John Davis, for rescuing a buried miner at Evan, Derbyshire; Henry Sparta. for rescuing a fellow-workman from poimnoue gas in a isswer at Silvertown; and Captain George F. Hants, of the 3rd Buffs, for saving the lives of five Demons from a fire in Charlemonteetreet, Dublin. Them medals have been conferred by Sir Edmund Lechmere, the Duke of Manonester, Prince Edward of &mg-Weimar, Sir Edward Perrott, or the Princess of Wales, in the presence of the Prince of Wales arid the Duke of Cambridge. A silver and a bronze medal have been also awarded by the Order to two foreign sailors for praiseworthy conduct during a mutiny on board the ship L 011.14