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DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT MEUX’s BREWHOUSE. 333
20; but the account was reduced to eight, whose bodies had
been recovered, viz.
1. Eleanor Cooper, 14 years of age, servant to Mr. Ri-
chard Hawes, the Tavistock Arms, Great Russell-street.—■
2. Mary Mulvey, a married woman, aged 30 years.—3. Tho-
mas Murray, aged 3 years, son to Mary Mulvey, by a for-
mer husband.—4. Hannah Banfield, aged 4 years and 4
months. 5. Sarah Batea, aged 3 years and 5 months.—
6. Ann Saville, aged 60 years.—7- Elizabeth Smith, a mar-
ried woman, aged 27 years.—8. Catharine Butler, a widow,
aged 65 years. '
On the Thursday following, a Coroner’s Inquest was held
on the dead bodies, at St. Giles’s work-house.—George Crick
deposed, that he was store-house clerk to Messrs. H. Meux
and Co. of the Horse-Shoe brewhouse, in St. Giles’s, with
whom he had lived 17 years. Monday afternoon, one of
the large iron hoops of the vat which burst, fell off. He
was not alarmed, as it happened frequently, and was not at-
tended by any serious consequence. He wrote to inform a
partner, Mr. Young, also a vat-builder, of the accident: he
had the letter in his hand to send to Mr. Young, about half
past five (half an hour after, the accident happened), and was
standing on a platform, within three yards of the vat, when
he heard it burst. He ran to the storehouse, where the vat
was, and was shocked to see that one side of the brewhouse,
upwards of 25 feet in height, and two bricks and a half thick,
with a considerable part of the roof, lay in ruins.
The next object that took his attention was his brother,
J. Crick, who was a superintendant under him, lying sense-
less, he being pulled from under one of the butts. He
and the labourer were now in the Middlesex Hospital. An
hour after, witness found the body of Ann Saville floating
among the butts, and also part of a private still, both of
which floated from neighbouring houses, The cellar and
20; but the account was reduced to eight, whose bodies had
been recovered, viz.
1. Eleanor Cooper, 14 years of age, servant to Mr. Ri-
chard Hawes, the Tavistock Arms, Great Russell-street.—■
2. Mary Mulvey, a married woman, aged 30 years.—3. Tho-
mas Murray, aged 3 years, son to Mary Mulvey, by a for-
mer husband.—4. Hannah Banfield, aged 4 years and 4
months. 5. Sarah Batea, aged 3 years and 5 months.—
6. Ann Saville, aged 60 years.—7- Elizabeth Smith, a mar-
ried woman, aged 27 years.—8. Catharine Butler, a widow,
aged 65 years. '
On the Thursday following, a Coroner’s Inquest was held
on the dead bodies, at St. Giles’s work-house.—George Crick
deposed, that he was store-house clerk to Messrs. H. Meux
and Co. of the Horse-Shoe brewhouse, in St. Giles’s, with
whom he had lived 17 years. Monday afternoon, one of
the large iron hoops of the vat which burst, fell off. He
was not alarmed, as it happened frequently, and was not at-
tended by any serious consequence. He wrote to inform a
partner, Mr. Young, also a vat-builder, of the accident: he
had the letter in his hand to send to Mr. Young, about half
past five (half an hour after, the accident happened), and was
standing on a platform, within three yards of the vat, when
he heard it burst. He ran to the storehouse, where the vat
was, and was shocked to see that one side of the brewhouse,
upwards of 25 feet in height, and two bricks and a half thick,
with a considerable part of the roof, lay in ruins.
The next object that took his attention was his brother,
J. Crick, who was a superintendant under him, lying sense-
less, he being pulled from under one of the butts. He
and the labourer were now in the Middlesex Hospital. An
hour after, witness found the body of Ann Saville floating
among the butts, and also part of a private still, both of
which floated from neighbouring houses, The cellar and