The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-08-14 00:00:00

FATAL ACCIDENT TO ARTILLERY

VOLUNTEERS.

novas, Thursday Evening.
The town of Dover was thrown into consternation by
an appalling accident which has occurred this evening.
While the Artillery Volunteer Corps were engaged in
gun practice at Archeliff Fort one of the guns burst,
scattering iu fragments in all directions. Mr. G. Thomp-
son (solicitor), one of the Lieutenants, and Mr. J. Monger
(tobacconist), a sergeant, were killed upon the spot, and
several other members of the corps are seriously injured.
Mr. Harris, a nephew of Captain Wollittson, who is in
command of the corps, is lying in • dangerous condition
from concussion of the brain, and among the other
persons hurt are Mr. Gilfillen (tailor). Mr. Hadlow
(painter), and a young man named Doubling.
Lieutenant Thompson was the coroner for the borough
and was •lield in the highest esteem by all classes of his
fellow.townmien. It is believed that the accident arose
from a defect in the gun and not from its being ins.
perfectly loaded, an the ball discharged from it reached
within a few yards of its proper range, which would not
have been the CAM) had there been any defect in the
ramming of the charge.
No event has oceured in Dover for many years which
has out each profound sadness over the town.

BANKRUPTS.
(From the London. Ga:ette of Tuesday.)

Frederick Crockford, St. James-street, eating-boas.

keeper.
Edmund John Burn. the younger. Brighton. stationer.
Edward Gandell and Henry John Todd, Greenwich,
street., Upper Thames-street, and Simt-lane, mer-
chants.
Henry Beeson, Bushey-heath, Hertfordshire, builder.
James Vincent Howes, Chiswell-street, leather seller.
John Hart, Crown-street, Finsbury, boot manufacturer.
John Lee Stevens, Fish -street-bill, dealer in iron.
Josiah Adams, Hanley, Staffordshire, grocer.
John Ebenezer Neal, Leicester, glove manufacturer.
John Price, Aberystruth, klotonouthshire, draper.
George Beale, Porlock, tionuersetshire, tanner.
Leonard Joseph Philp, Plymouth, builder.

(From the London Gawk. of Friday.)

Nathan Benjamin and Edwin Dipple, Now-cut, Lam
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Lett', gas fitters.
Robert. Durrant and George Brock, Norwich, tallow

chandlers-
Robert Oliver, Wilmington-street, Wilmington-square,
rkenwell. manufacturing jeweller.
John Bayless Widnell, Regent-street, mantle manufs*.

turer.
James Denny Chapman, Aldermanbury and High-street,
Whitechepel, warehouseman and lineudraper.
Frank Holloway, Paul-street, Finsbury, enmneer.
James Pitcher, Hammitt-lid-road, lesthemeller.
Gustave Winter, Milk-street, warehouseman.
Albert Lee Ward, Fenchurch-street. shipbroker.
Lasarous Lewis, New-street and Hutchisou-street, Gravel-
lane, Houndsditch, trimming seller.
William Richards, Upper North place. Gray'aimi-road,

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builder.
Henry Foot, Fort-street, Spitalfields, and Sudbury,
Suffolk, silk manufacturer.
Samuel Solomon Maurice, Great St. Helen's, Bishops.
gate-street, nierchant.
Josiah Adams, Hanley, Staffordshire, grocer.
William Jeffries, Dudley, iromnaster.
Albine Williamson, Nottingham, blacksmith.
John Price, Aberystruth, Monmouthshire, draper.
George Vieary W aketield and Robert Burt, Swansea,
hotel keepers.
George Reeves, jun., Cheltenham, ridingmaater.
Robert Miller, Winterborne Kingston, Dorsetshire.
John Wesley Swann, Manchester, indiarubber, mina.
facturer.