Wednesday, 8 July 2015

The Fatal Launch of Emma in Manchester (Part Two)


Bodies at the New Quay.

The Manchester Courier published a list of the dead and resuscitated on Saturday 1st March, the day after the accident. It published a more accurate list on Saturday 8th March and it is that later list that is reproduced here. Where the first list contains supplemental information omitted from the second list this is included in [brackets] after the entry.

Bodies at the New Quay.

Males.
John Irlam, a dyer at Messrs Rothwell and Harrisons.
James Manghan, a dyer at do. do
Frederick Brereton 19 Dumville Street, St Johns.
H. Atkinson, clerk at Messrs Bache’s carriers. Has left a widow and 7 children.
William Hough, Tickle Street. (a boy)
James Robinson, 2, Canal Street, Oldfield Road.
Thomas Forbes, one of the choristers at the Collegiate Church, (boy)
George --tto--- Potter Street, Gartside Street, (aged 13)
Joseph Wilkins Brown Square, Bootle Street.
Henry Hargreaves ? Backwater Street.
James Kirkham, son to a blacksmith at the Old Quay.

Females.
Eliza Rothwell, a fustian cutter, Fleet Street (girl)
Dinah Pennington, College Gates.
Eliza Davis, 17 Barrow Street, Salford.
Amelia Vernon, 1, James Street, Hulme.
Mary Ann Worthington, 30, Little Bridgewater Street.

Total at the New Quay- Eleven males and five females.

Bodies at the Britannia


Males,
Joseph Fryer, 18, Liverpool Road (boy)
Joseph Calvert, Parliament Street (eight years old)
Frederick Worrall, son of a smallware weaver, 25 Booth Street, Salford. (boy)
---- Butterworth, son of a joiner, in Quay Street, Manchester. (boy)
Joseph Dutton, 14 Newbery Street, (boy)
James Dearden, Tickle Street, Deansgate.
Richard Walker, a dyer, York Street, Salford. (aged 26) ---This man saved the lives of three individuals, and perished in endeavouring to save a fourth.
James Cosgrove, 15, Christ Church Square, Hulme. (boy)
James Hayhurst, 3, Bradshawgate, Deansgate.
James Kenney, 33 Bootle Street.

Females.
Theresa Healey, 2, Silver Street, , Hulme.
Elizabeth Jones, Cross Street, Salford.
Elizabeth Rawlinson, 6 , Johnson Street, Salford. [Elizabeth Robinson, wife of a soldier at Malta]
Ellen Shore, 8, Union Street, Oldfield Road.
Ann Wharton, The Mount, top of Jacksons Row, Manchester, (girl)
Mary Burns, Lower Irwell Street. (aged 16)

Total at the Britannia-Ten males and six females.

Bodies at The Kings Arms.

Males.
Daniel Sumner, 4, Silver Street, Hulme, (aged 19)
Thomas Donelly, New Mount Street, Angel Meadow, (boy)
Samuel Bradbury, 36, Chester Road, Hulme, (boy)
Jesse Hindley, 6, Green Bank, Broughton Road, (boy)
John Bennett, 47 Silver Street, Hulme, (boy)

Female.
Elizabeth Bradshaw, 17, New Street, Liverpool Road, (aged 20)

Total at the Kings Arms-Five males and one female.

Persons Resuscitated.

James Haslam Dawson Street, Broughton Road, aged about 13- This believed to be the boy forced into the river by the crush on the bank.
John Mounsey, joiner, Duke Street, Salford,--not on vessel but leaped into the water after the accident and after saving a number of lives was dragged under water by persons in the act of drowning.
Henry Bibby, aged 16, lives near the Clock Face in Newton Lane.
Patrick Taylor, works with a person in Choke Street, Salford.

“Medical Gentlemen” involved in rescue,
Doctors, Carbutt, Freckleton, Shaw, Lyon, Kay and Kinder Wood.
Surgeons, Messrs Jordan, Blundstone, Barton, Bennett, Bradley, Radford, Brownhill, Hunt, Crowther, Owens and Powell. Mr. Turner, Mr. Hancock, and other medical students were also indefatigable in their exertions.

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