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DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT MEUX’s BREWHOUSE. 335
servant, was in the yard washing pots at the time the acci-
dent happened; she was buried under the ruins, from
whence she was dug out about 20 minutes past eight
o’clock; she was found standing by the water-butt, quite
dead.
John Cummings deposed, that he was a bricklayer, and
lived in Pratt’s-place, Camden-town; being the owner of
some houses in New-street, where the principal part of the
persons who were lost, resided, he attended on the spot all
day on Tuesday, to render assistance to the sufferers; Eli-
zabeth Smith, a bricklayer’s wife, was the first body they
found, about twelve o’clock, jn the ruins of a fir§t-floor ;
Sarah Batea, a child, was discovered in about an hour after-
wards, in the ruins of No. 3, New-street; Catherine Butler,
a widow, Mary Mulvey, and her son, Thomas Murray, .a
boy three years of age, were found about four o’clock on
Tuesday afternoon; Hannah Banfield, a girl about four
years and a half old, with her mother, and another child,
were at tea on the. first-floor, the two former were washed
by the flood into the ruins; the dead body of Hannah Ban-
field was found in the ruins about half past six; the mo-
ther was carried to the Middlesex-hospital, and the last
mentioned child was found nearly suffocated in a bed in the
room.
The evidence being gone through, the jury without hesi-
tation, returned a verdict of—“ Died by casualty, accident-
ally, and by misfortune.”
In addition to the above killed, five persons were carried
to the Middlesex-hospital—some of whom were dreadfully
bruised, but all of them recovered, viz. John Crick, bro-
ther to the store-house clerk ; Patrick Murphy, a labourer
in the brewhouse; Mary Banfield, a coal-heaver’s wife,
who was washed out of the window whilst at tea with her
daughter; and two children who were picked up almost
suffocated and much bruised :—large collections were made
servant, was in the yard washing pots at the time the acci-
dent happened; she was buried under the ruins, from
whence she was dug out about 20 minutes past eight
o’clock; she was found standing by the water-butt, quite
dead.
John Cummings deposed, that he was a bricklayer, and
lived in Pratt’s-place, Camden-town; being the owner of
some houses in New-street, where the principal part of the
persons who were lost, resided, he attended on the spot all
day on Tuesday, to render assistance to the sufferers; Eli-
zabeth Smith, a bricklayer’s wife, was the first body they
found, about twelve o’clock, jn the ruins of a fir§t-floor ;
Sarah Batea, a child, was discovered in about an hour after-
wards, in the ruins of No. 3, New-street; Catherine Butler,
a widow, Mary Mulvey, and her son, Thomas Murray, .a
boy three years of age, were found about four o’clock on
Tuesday afternoon; Hannah Banfield, a girl about four
years and a half old, with her mother, and another child,
were at tea on the. first-floor, the two former were washed
by the flood into the ruins; the dead body of Hannah Ban-
field was found in the ruins about half past six; the mo-
ther was carried to the Middlesex-hospital, and the last
mentioned child was found nearly suffocated in a bed in the
room.
The evidence being gone through, the jury without hesi-
tation, returned a verdict of—“ Died by casualty, accident-
ally, and by misfortune.”
In addition to the above killed, five persons were carried
to the Middlesex-hospital—some of whom were dreadfully
bruised, but all of them recovered, viz. John Crick, bro-
ther to the store-house clerk ; Patrick Murphy, a labourer
in the brewhouse; Mary Banfield, a coal-heaver’s wife,
who was washed out of the window whilst at tea with her
daughter; and two children who were picked up almost
suffocated and much bruised :—large collections were made