Claim for loss of property #32 – Particulars

	No. of Claim	Name of Claimant	Description of Claimant	Address of Claimant
	32	George Shallcross, Henry J. Shallcross, John Shallcross Trading as George Shallcross & Sons	Millers & Bakers Flour Dealers and Corn Merchants	Russell Mills Russel Street

Nature of Claimant’s Interest		Particulars of Claim		Amount of Damages Claimed
Shop and House in Gibralter Street		Damage to 306 Flour Sacks under water and mud and cleaning	cost 1/11 per Sack within few months 1/. Each	£15	6s
		Damage and cleaning 60 customers Sacks	cost 1/11 per Sack within few months 6d each	£1	10s
		Damage and cleaning 41 Corn Sacks	cost 1/11 per Sack within few months 6d each	£1		6d
		Damage and loss in 77 bags Flour under water mud	[?]	£38	10s
		Damage and loss in 50 bags of Sharps worthless, few bags sold for 6d Bag		£17	10s
		Damage and loss in 16 Bags fine Sharps	damaged 8/. Per bag	£6	8s
		Damage and loss in 10 Sacks whole Beans	6/. Per sack	£3
		The above heated and cooked so fast was carted to Ash pit
		Damage to 14 stone Pea Meal			7s
		Damage to 48 Stone Indian Meal		£1	12s
		Damage to 50 Stone Bean Meal		£1	13s	4d
		Damage to 100 Stone Barley Meal		£2	10s
		Damage to 3 Sacks Spring [?] feed useless		£1	16s
		60 Stone of Sharps heated so fast they could not be used except manure		£2	2s
		Damage to 28 Stone Fine Sharps			9s	4d
		Damage to14 Stone Barley Meal heated			7s
		Damage to Harness etc		£1
		In Shop Kitchen and Cellars
		Damage and loss 340 loaves Bread	£7 1s 8d
		20 Stone to Pigs 9d Stone remainder swept away in the mud	0.15.0	£6	6s	8d
		Damage and loss of 112lb [?] in Sack useless	Cost 5d lb worth 1lb	£1	16s	6d
		Damage and loss of 10 Sacks covering Bread above on shelves and Kitchen			12s	6d
		Swept away & Broken
		Knife Board			2s	6d
		4 Metal Pots			15s
		6 Towels			8s
		2 Wrappers			2s	6d
		6 Aprons			6s
		Knives			7s	6d
		Broken Posts Maiden Pots and baum vessels and crockery		£1	10s
		4 Tumbler glasses			2s
		3 Tables smashed		£2
		Potatoes in Cellar swept away			8s
		Lard in Barrel			7s
		Lard in pots broken & lost			10s
		Oil & broken bottles			10s
		German Baum 24 lbs @ 8d lost in the muddy cellar			16s
		Ale Baum and Liquer Baum lost			15s
		Damage and loss of Pickles Meat Milk Beer Bacon Tongues and other articles		£1	10s
		Damage and loss of Brushes, Shovels, & Rakes, broken and lost			15s
		Joiners work replacing broken doors and other wood work in Kitchen Cellar Mill & Heathcotes, locks & hinges etc Kitchen		£2	10s
		Masons work. Kitchen floor and steps washed up yard Drains etc repaired		£1	10s
		Damage to large broken Stone over Tenants, Heathcotes cracked five places			10s
		Damage to pitching in yard mill - sunk and left full of holes		£1
		Repainting Walls Doors Passages Kitchen & the former paint being pealed off		£4
		Damage to Steam Engine and cleansing having all been under water & mud and		£5
		Cleansing Boiler Tiles, tubes, brickwork all connected with Boiler - been under water & mud		£3
		Loss of loading board for mill door washed away			10s
		Coal heaps washed away and damaged by mud in mill yard and shop cellars		£3	10s
		Cleaning cellars of 6 cottages		£1	1s
		Repairing paint and paper for cottages		£2	10s
		To 1 man & 1 horse with cart	3 days @ 10/.	£1	10s
		To 6 men cleaning mill yard & premises	5 days @ 4/.	£6
		To 5 men cleaning mill yard & premises	1 day @ 4/.	£1
		To 4 men cleaning mill yard & premises	2 days @ 4/.	£1	12s
		To 3 men cleaning mill yard & premises	2 days @4/.	£1	4s
		To 1 man cleaning mill yard & premises	1 day @ 4/.		4s
		To 1 woman cleaning mill yard & premises	12 days @ 2.8	£1	12s
		5 days stoppage of mill grinding	100 lb per day @ 1/. Per lb	£25
		Millers and other wages not charged in the above & they being occupied in mill cleansing shooting sacks cleansing machinery, saving as much property as possible
		Damage to Engine House Floor. Flags sunk etc.			10s
		Total loss 47 Stone Crushed Oats		£2	14s	10d
		Total loss 84 Stone English Split Beans		£5	5s
		Total loss 36 Stone sweepings on floor in mud and swept away		£1	10s
	Total loss 9 Stone crushed oats and other odments on floor			10s	6d
	Total loss of 62 Stone Bran under water soaked through, heated fast and worthless		£1	16s	2d
	Whitewashing mill bottom, Engine house, Gateways into yard etc.		£2
	Valuable Retriever Dog drowned		£1
	To paid 2 men & 2 Horses with carts remove debris	3 days @ 10/.	£3
				£196	10s	10d
Certificate Granted 30 January 1865		Assessed by Agreement at		£160

Note: The word 'baum' is probably a misspelling of 'barm', that is, yeast.

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