Dublin has been the scene of another terrible accident—a fire.
It broke out in Patrick-street, in the second story of a house occupied by seven families, comprising thirty-two persons. The police saved of these twenty-two, but ten were destroyed by smoke and fire. It seems they have fire-escapes in Dublin, but that they are either badly constructed, or the mode of using them is ineffective. Two were present, but the conductors thereof could do, and did, nothing. It is said that this fearful accident was caused by drink. A man who inhabited the upper story went to bed drunk, and unconsciously set the curtains on fire, when the flames soon spread all over the premises. An inquest was held on Monday on the bodies of the ten persons who lost their lives. The jury expressed an opinion that the fire was caused by the intemperate habits of Michael Barker and his wife, two of the inmates of the house, who escaped from a fate similar to that of the deceased. They were accordingly taken into custody.
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