The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-08-19 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

The excitement incident to the disastrous expbedon Is
iga"ubshllieag, but the scene of the terrible dissster
11:14 'well visited by large numbers of the entioaw 111311 rn
1:01111Ay the tOWII Was Over-11111 with excursionists, ft.,,,.
winere transport the railway company derived iluite a mall
harveAt.

----SAinit;ed it n Iltt if the dead.—Men —Mr. E. If. Prentice,
Mr. W. R. Prentice. John linger, James Ransom°, Sa 1111 l el
,I irman, James Parish, John Wright, Richard King. J. Howe,
lila Cauhain, ...Thomas.- Boys Read, J. Runnaeles,
J. (Milani, W. Parker, Alf. Williams, Frank Mayliew.—Cdrhe -
Alice Mortimer, Amy Hare, Anna Miller, Susan Wilding. Anne
Maria Markwell, Mary Mount. The list 41 the wounded
comprises two Imp, named Psifliarl, living In Union street
NTH, a Imp living in Bury-street ; E. Barnard, living in
thee tree-plate; colebesu r, churehlaue ; henry Cmld,
Lime-tree-place ; Breen, cloirehyard ;Priscilla Hawkins,
Regent-street paid injury in the eye) ; Charles Keetale,
Regent-street ; Mrs. King ; Peorre Martin, Combs Ford ;
Charles Markwell, Cardinall-strevt ; Robert Pegg, Violet-
hill ; John Rogers, Combs Ford Henry Simpson, Church-
yard ; Sillett, Cardinall.road ; Thing, Bury-street
Wright, Caton street ; SIIIIIIII Wells, Violet hill ; Wil-
liams and -- Parker, Church-latie ; Charles Halls, Combs
Font ; 811/.11 barley, Stowupland-street Thomas East-
angle, Combs Ford , John Pricker, Stowupland-street W.
Wright
;this poor fellow has had his spine ;iffeeted, and at
his own request he was forwarded on a bed to the East Silt.
folk Hospital at Immieh); Emily Cross, Stowupland-street ;
Mrs. Ward, Regent-street ; J. Last, Stowupland.street ; two
young girls named Sergeant, Stownplandoltreet ; Elizabeth
Brett, Bury-street ; Emily Baruard,Cardinabstreet
Brett, Combs, ite. The list is not complete, but It gives a
striking illustration of the dreadful conitequences of the
explosion.
A meeting of the relief committee and some friends
was held on Monday, Mr. Harvey I lakes, if the firm of Oakes,
Bevan, awl Co., bankers, presiding. Mr. Harper, surgeon,
stated that the committee found that the whole number
of dead and missing was 24, aa per list stove given.
The numb, of bodies identified was 17; no other bodies
could be identified, as they were merely charred remains.

Mr. Edward Prentice shaft could not be Identified, Rothe un-
tortunate gentlennu was blown almost to pieces Most of the
persons not Identified were girls who were burnt. The number
if wounded persons was 72, and if these two had liven removed
to hospitals and two to the workhouse. if the wounded
there were dal six jr seven who were not out of danger. : the
others were. upon the whole, progressing favourably. The
most seriously wounded persons were ?lambi Slater, John
Pricker, John lust, Sarah Sergeant, liliver Canliam, and
Henry Codd. The acting committee presented a repori
to the effect that they had visited each sufferer with
the medical gentlemen and had given the relief
scribed by theni to meet the necessities of each indi-
vidual case. The committee felt however, tlust the work ,if
visiting the sounded would be better performed loy
ho were mole suited to administer comfort and relief in the
sick room. The is iiimilttee athled that their warmest thaiths
were due to those who had kindly prepared beef tea, jellies,
Are.
The ini.eting lino:veiled to consider the best meims id
raising a subscription to meet the trying circumstances d
the ease. A donation of 00 was animunetsl Irmo Sir E.
lierrieon, one of etio town Mlls Gimbal, of Gurneys and
cp. ; fruit Messm Oakes, Bevan. anti Cm, with
the 'iii c. 2.1 more if reiplired ; t2e from )11..
Hewitt, with the promise of .i:21) more if required ; one of 1;5
F Mr. Starrii.tt, the • ty smaller aunts
(num other gentlemen. The Medical gentlemen present
stated that they should give their writers gratuitously.
'the snlewription raiie.l will lie applied not only to the suc-
cour of the w.•mided, but alba to the old us the wide vs and
children of the dead.

The victim, of the exploFion have heeu interml at the
stowami kct CemeLit SoniC .1 the colthis contained
a mere heap of chatted remit, 'the list dead comprised
Worlawn, 11.,y it nuke,. 'l. name. tie WM a INd Wit. ilaa
110 parent, and no friends, and no idle knew anything about
1' iwyond the fart that he came from the workhouse, and
that he worked ut the factory. TA, dead were haried in
plain oak 1.1.111113 with inseriptions giving their 111111101 and
ages and the date of their death. f4Ane of the coffins eon
taillet shad woe suliaised to he the remains id two or (lire
peraons. . . . . .

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it spunlol be observed that lon, reason why It has been
deterndoed to appeal to the public at large for ill liii
nexion nith the relief of the sufferers fnoo the explo.ron i
the faet that many o,f the prinripal inhabitantn sf ,tow•
market have thenowlvea sustained rather heavy 11112sa frost the
damage done to their premises. .1 cheek has also been given
to the general progreteilif the town.

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The w.otinled are genmully doitm well, and hove been
freely supplied isith beef tea, Jellies, and other medical
emtifints.
some progress has been made ink repairing the 1111111c1,118
broken a holows whieli have to be made woof: but the damage
done to roofs is. of course, a more serious matter, snot Si ill
not he provided for quite no readily. Happily, the weather
continues dry alai tine, no that the inconvenience ex•
perieneed hy the townspeople has been CI omparidively
The houses inn the neighbourlusni of the works, have, od
course, suffered the most ; but, as hos been already stated,
theNttects of the explosion wt.; cry capricious.