The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-12-03 (London, England)

GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.  -On:Friday evening, afire broke out upon the premises of Messrs. Barry Brothers, wharfi igers and saltpetre merchants, Dockhead, Bermondssy. The fire, it seems, was di,covered in the firit instance in Cie G warehouse_, a brick and timber build ng, s.x storeys h gh, and filled with jute, seeds, and sager. This building stretched in one direction 100 ft. and in tae other 703. It icrined only about one-s xteenth part of what is termed Meriton's Wharf, a ortion of which was destroyed by a similar disaster EOM 3 months back. Adjoining this warehouse stood an ther, 701 t. long and 6 ft. deep, termed the H extension wareoonse. TAB building was filled with several thousand bales of jute, and in less than a quarter of an hoar after the discovery was made tais baildng was also wrapped in flames: The adjoining building to the last-named was tamed the H warehouse; it was 60ft. long, and 72f1. deep, and was filled with jute, wheat, an I saltpetre. Upon the floors of the rooms in which the saltpetre was storAl becoming ignited explosions tookplace in rap.d succession, and blew down heavy brick walls and lif,ed the tiles and roofs of the warehoines. One of the firemen, named Hale, was blown across the road with considerable force. The poor fellow's han is were v.ly severely injured, and he has, also received very serious injuries on the back. Waiist a numba of time firemen and others were standing in Mill-street the wall of the building was suddenly heard to make a cracking noise and seen to bulge. An alarm was given, and all the men succeeded in " making their escape, when some thirty or forty yards of the wall, which was eighteen or twenty feet in height, fell Lito the read. Tae immense warehouse, consisting of six floors, has been entirely burnt out, many tons weight of j to wee destroyed, the costly stock of seeds and an •sz.s was consumed, and the H extensive warelioaw, 100t.long .1 deep, has been destroyed. The C warehouse iv also siderably damaged by water, &e. The tackle Lease an. carpenter's worashops are destroyed, mind th‘ contents consumed. The counting-houses and Ole dwellinghouses are also greatly damaged by fire, water, &e. On Sunday morning the fire was still raging ‘rithin the confines of the building and wharfs, and two powerful float engines and two land steamers were playiugupou the burning jute and seed, and o h r stores which the building contained. But little of the st ,res or he premises was saved, and the loss" is from £150,000 to £200,000.  DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED  SUICIDE NEAR LEICESTER.  Great consternation prevailed in Leicester at an eaey hour on Saturday morning, in cousequ.ence of a report been extensively circulated that a dreadiul tragedy had been perpetrated at hyston, a village about four miles •distant, at a late hour on the previotts night, and ,hit the mur,orer had been taken to Leicester and locket up at the County Police Station. The murderer is a man named Timothy Baum, twenty,ight years of fig., a Wheelwright, Hying at Syston, and his victims, his wif Jane Baum, aged thirty-two, and a daughter .Enamn Baum, eleven monthsold. The particulars of this ureadful occurrence appear to be as follow : About eleven o'clock on Fr,day night., the murderer's mother-in-law, Mrs. Jane Shelton, who Jived with her 'daughter, was asleep in a room adjoining to that in which the prisoner and his wife and child were sleeping, when she was disturbed by the crits of the child. -On getting up and going towards the prisoner's -bed, TOOM, she met the prisoner coming out of his room with .a bloody knife in his hand, and his shirt also bloody. •Ehe asked him the cause of it, but lie made no reply, and at once made an attempt to cut his tiiroat, but he vas frustrated in his design, as the we pou was dashed ,out of his hand by Mrs. Shelton. H. then rushed .down stairs, but returned in a tow minutes with the .knife-box in his hand, and was feeling as if in search for the carving knife, which fortunately dii not happen to be there. With great presence of mind she also dashed the knife box out of his hand, s ized him, and dragged him into a bedroom where she pushed lit:n into a chair, and cried out "Murder." This called to her assistance a youth named Toone, an a- prentice, w.io slept in an adjoining ro-m, and he speedily gave the alarm to the neighbours, and two men, Matthew Toone and Win. .Adcock, were quickly on the spot. Mrs. Shelton then went into his bedroom and found her daughter lying in bed with. 6 stab in her throat, quite dead, an I her child lying at-her side, also wit!' its throat cut from ear to ear. Mr. Robinson, surgeon, cf Syston, was sent for, and on his arrival he pronoueced the infant to be Etill alive, butnotwithstanding his medical skill, the poor thing only lingered4ill about three o'clock, when it expired. As the prisoner had been in a low way for some time past, and tinder Mr. Robinson's .keatment, the latter did not con. eider him in a Condition to be removed that night. He 'was therefore kept under the surveilla ,C 3 of the police and conveyed to Leicester on Satur.lay morning, and lodged at the county police station. We understand th it the murdered woman was near her confinement. We nyky add that the pr &oiler also made an attempt to stab T no and Adcock with a carving fork, when they endeavoured to bind him. Prisoner was .aken before the Magistrates sitting at the County .Pablic-otlice, on Saturday at-noon, and was remanded. 

Article type: Incident