[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 13 May 1815 - Local News

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 13 May 1815   (p. 3, col. 2+4)

 

The inhabitants of Carlisle and its neighbourhood will shortly have an opportunity of attending the Philosophical Lectures of Mr.
NICHOL, whose late Lectures at Durham, Newcastle, and Hexham, have been most favourably received.-See Adv. 

 

This week three men were committed to our goal [sic], charged with stealing a 9 gallons' cask of ale from the brewery of Joseph
COWPER, and Co. of Penrith. It supposed they had carried on this species of depredation to a considerable extent. 

 

The fine showers and genial weather of the few last days have given an extraordinary impulse to vegetation. The earth is clothed in
the richest livery of green. 

 

This week, in the night time, the stable of Mr. Wm. HEWIT, of Rockliff, near this city, was broken open, and a valuable horse, which
he had that day purchased, was barbarously hamstrung. We regret to add, that the cruel and cowardly miscreant is yet undiscovered. 

 

Yesterday week, at one of the Bolton-wood-lane coal-pits, one of the baskets having fallen from the top, and broken down the
scaffold of the crowband; Joseph STOBBART, a young man, not being aware of the circumstance, on coming out of the crowband was
precipitated to the bottom of the pit a depth of seven or eight fathoms. He was much bruised, but is in a fair way of recovery. 

 

A quantity whiskey was seized yesterday week at Morresby, near Whitehaven, together with an illegal still of considerable capacity. 

 

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-On Wednesday the 3d inst. a most shocking catastrophe occurred at Heaton colliery, near Newcastle, by the
breaking in of a quantity of water from one of the old workings, to which the pitmen had unhappily approximated too closely. Aware
of the possibility of such a circumstance, from their situation amidst a variety of subterraneous excavations, they had been
accustomed to bore, in various directions, for nine or ten yards directly upon the lines they intended working, in order to
penetrate any body of water that might be concealed in the adjacent cavities: this precaution was about to be put in practice at
nine o'clock of the morning, but, before that time arrived (between three and four o'clock), a dreadful rush of water came through
the roof, and continued to flow with such rapidity, that only 20 men and boys escaped, and that night the water rose 24 fathoms.
>From a faint gleam of hope an attempt was made at an old pit, a little south west from the other, with a view, if possible, to open
a communication with the workings, but the sides of the pit fell in, and other difficulties presented themselves, precluding any
hope of any of the sufferers being rescued alive, though no exertions were spared by the proprietors and their agents.-Mr. MILLER
(the underviewer, who has left a wife and 8 children), 32 workmen, 42 boys, and 37 horses, have perished; and 25 widows, with about
80 children, are left to bemoan the sudden deaths of their husbands and fathers. 

 

The Carricks, BUSHBY, from Liverpool for Quebec, was spoken on the 23d ult. in lat. 51. long. 22, all well. 

 

On Monday, a fine new vessel, with her masts and rigging up, was launched from the building-yard of Mr. SCOTT, Whitehaven, called
the BROWN, built for Capt. J. WOOD, and intended for the Jamaica trade. 

 

 

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