Posted with permission of the transcriber, Barb. Baker. Geo. THE TIMES, Friday, January 14, 1853 BURIED ALIVE. A fatal catastrophe has just occurred in the town of Brampton (Cumberland). Two men were buried alive - one named GEORGE PRINGLE, from Carlisle, and the other GEORGE TAYLOR, a Brampton man. They were engaged on Monday afternoon in re-sinking an old well at Brampton workhouse, and when at the depth of about 25 feet below the surface, the whole of the earth rushed in from the sides and top upon the two poor fellows who were working at the bottom. This was about a quarter to 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. The alarm was immediately given, crowds rushed to the spot, and, hopeless as the case looked, preparations were immediately commenced to dig the men out. This was necessarily very slow work, as the shaft required to be framed by joiner-work, as they proceeded downwards throwing out the earth. Such a scene has never before been witnessed in this neighbourhood. All night long, relays of men worked by torchlight and the blaze of tar barrels, and the workhouse standing on a hill-top, visible far and wide, the light attracted people from the country around, numbers of whom flocked to the scene, fancying that there was a fire. About midnight, and long after all hope had been given up of getting either of the men out alive, the most intense excitement was produced by the workmen, who were digging their way laboriously through what appeared a bank of solid earth, declaring that they could hear a voice some depth below. The men, many of whom were TAYLOR's fellow workmen and companions, gave a loud cheer, which was caught up and repeated by the crowd outside. By almost super-human exertions they reached a depth of about 20 feet by 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning, and came upon PRINGLE, who walked out almost without assistance, and came up the ladder to the top, looking very pale and frightened, but declaring that he was unhurt. He could give no account of TAYLOR, except that when the rush of earth came, he (TAYLOR) was higher up the shaft and nearer the top than PRINGLE, who heard nothing afterwards except a kind of groaning for about five minutes. PRINGLE was consigned to the medical men and put to bed, having been upwards of 13 hours imbedded in the damp earth. Cold was the only thing he complained of. He had experienced no difficulty, he said, in "getting breathed", which was most strange, and he had heard all the proceedings from the first of the men employed in extricating him. Not to speak irreverently, nothing could be conceived so like resurrection of the dead. The workmen again set to, and laboured away with the most resolute will in the hope of rescuing TAYLOR, who, as compared with PRINGLE, was a very strong man. It was not till 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon that they came upon his body, stark and stiff and head downwards, almost at the bottom of the well, and imbedded in wet sand. He had long been dead. An inquest was held on Tuesday evening before MR. CARRICK, coroner, and a verdict of "Accidental death" returned. There has been nothing to cause so painful a sensation in this neighbourhood since the "WALTON tragedy" - the event which terminated the life of a Cumberland yeoman at the hand of a clergyman, which will be still in the memory of our readers. ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````