The Potteries Examiner : — 1880-04-17 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

MEETING.  THE PRIVILEGES OF BLENDERS OF TERRTHLT! TALE OF THE SEA PARLIAMENT.  „,Ato, ti3h:AidanSirinUo,triChng7himat:LcipffirgePolHlLOSime(joorthOPHErt. .hWaviiiinigisamttennmatednt. i —. An inquiry into the loss of the barque Urger, ..1 ; ~‘ ...men: suicide. Abeet two o'clock in the morning Vice-Chancellor Hall had before him on Thursday St. John's. New Brunswick. has been concluded at I Shortly after the alone of the Conservative meeta motion to commit Mr. Fortescue Harrison, late Liverpool before the Stipeceliary magistrate, assisted ' lag at Bounabreok Hotel. :jelly Oak. on Saturday, M.P. for the Kilmarnock Burghs, to prison for con. by nautical assessors. T': . Lister sailed from St. a disgraceful attack was made onthoee who had been ' l'''''''''°°''`ble met the Priem.”' wendzring iuniontempt ot Court in not obeying an order requiring John's on the 26th Ja.., i' last, with a cargo of attending the meeting by a band of rearm from ..-""inneeee in Dicheth,end asked him where he was him to pay to the official liquidator of the Anglo. timber, for Liverpool, an ' .•; the Bth of February Birmingham, about 100 in number. armed with stout '''"",• Pri-oner ',ldled that be did not knee, h. had French Co-operative Society all moneys received by i had fine weather and fa, ',la, winds. At mid. sticks, and their pockets filled with flints. Them !" """.Y. In his pocket was an emery v.e. he Insulted him as trustee of the debenture holders since the night on th , Bth, bower.: as wind backed. and a was a fierce onslaught; the cliche were freely used, ,;:t...ualanum,'• and the man admitted Ina; ;;e hid commencement of the winding up of that company. heavy gale commenced z; ;Acre. At daybreak the and the stones were flying about m all unk it, as hp wanted a sleep a long 'deep. He Dlr. Young appeared for the official liquidator. Mr, weather continued unal. d, and the heavy seas directions. The men who were attacked '" '"en to ;he hospital, when on his elothea being Graham Hastings, 1,1 C., and Mr. 3laco4winney were shipped from time to tine caused the deck load to naturally defended themselves. and returned 50011'',‘"ele-merched. was found the following sinearae counsel for Mr. For:teem- Harrison They said . break adrift. Captain EVallB, the master of the the missiles that were hurled at them. For fully document. addremed to the coroner, and headed :' :km that he had no money he:oeging to the company, ' vessel, thereupon got his crew to work at throwing half an hour there was a pitched battle, and blood , l'hil."'PhY of Life" bat irrespective of that def. ace the motion could not , the deck load overboard, which was done until der's, , flowed freely on both sides. The one or two p 'Beeman " 0 death, thou plessios end of human wee. be sustained, because the privilege of Me. Harrison, the pumps meantime being kept going at every present were powerlees to quell the disturbance, and Thou cure fir life; tiougrestteit good below.' ass member of the last Parliament, from arrest ex- opportunity. The gale being unabeted, the boat a cabman was sent for assistance to the Helsel] Heath ' "Mr. Coroner. --I have come to the cnnelmion that tended to forty days after the day on which that skids were broken by the Seto, arid two of the boats, Police Station He returned with half a dozen police, life is really not worth having. take Not having kno wan Parliament was dissolved. The Vice-Chancellor the pinnace and the gig, as well as all the loose men, who, however, arrived onlintiy me to see the payee,. 1 mey therefore what theory I tilt f ' refund the motion on the ground urged by Mr. things about the deck, were washed away. On the end of the fray, the assailants having been over- exit tenee --either Darwin's T no,' e• or my leth the weather moderated, but the follovring day powered by numbers and driven over the bridge. . Tom's Cs' in :' and toeing perfe'ersls Z.'s- 71 elesof lieUncent Herrison's counsel. another gale came on, and about 2 p.m. the binnacle On the appetizer's* of the policemen they thought ere at liberty to gins what verdict. yes tube; for. kind --"Y°F:n7re;iet".•0111.•11,111 world. Tye had enough of thee; i and the wheel were carried away IT a tremendous discretion was the better part of valour and dispersed mother earth does not care • fle wbat verdict you give. ; sea. At 4 p.m. during • lull in the storm, the crew in all directions. Whilst it lasted the fight was of • were able to go below to get some dinner, but while most fierce character. There were a hundred men I, a My e:.,...s ::::::sywh„.imteth::ya.::: they were so engaged the ship was struck by a bur. on one side and a hundred and fifty on the other, , . limns from the north-west, which caused the main both sides fignting desperately, and the sharp flints Thy smiles 1 court not. nor thy triton, I feer, yard to break away and threw the vessel inflicted many ugly wounds. The police remained ; . smTiorriemsagto'betrantiescl":omfanlidi remanded friends 1t.3'1 aßwr".dgkatoorteh7ble on her beam ends, the post rail being under on duty durisg the remainder of the evening. water. At 6 p.m. the cabin door was burst in, arid some of the men took to the rigging. At BY A , daylight en the 12th it was discovered the steward was miming, having probably been swept away from the rigging by the waves. Later on the swelling of the timber in the hold caused the hatches to burst open from below, and the vessel became waterlogged. The crew then took refuge in the upper lazarette, where they remained helpless for six days, subsisting on preserved provisions, which they obtained by breaking through a bulkhead into the cabin. All that could be found to drink was a jar of fresh water. On the 18th the crew left the lazaretto and took to the rigging, but the raging sea swept away one man, an A. it. belonging to London. named James Lindsay; and the intense cold and exposure caused suother man. named Anderson, a Norwegian, to die in the rigging. The cook became delirious from the terrible privations to which he and all thepthers were subjected, and jumped into the sea in a fit of frenzy. For three days the men remained clinging to the rigging of the water-logged ship, having neither food nor water to sustain them, and their sufferings being increased by the fact . that two steamers were sighted which, in spite of the signals made by the despairing men, passed on withoilt noticing them. On the 22nd I ebruary they were men by the steamer Hipparchus, which took them off in her lifeboat and brought them to London.— The Board of Trade Court, in giving judgment as Saturday, exonerated the master from all blame, attributing the loss of the ship to the terrific woathiez which pwrvailed in the Atlantic at the time.