The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-04-28 00:00:00

TURKS PICASONO BUILVID TO Lan.

On Friday morning a loud expleakin occurred in
Uniteestniet, Borough, London, followed by a
disastrous fire, which remitted in the death of flow
'townie and injury to a young woontin and three
children. It appear,. that at the time in question Mr.
Henry Chandler, carrying on beanie.. an an oil and
colour merekent, wen with his family sleeping on the
premisen. 1111 l tediately on hearing the reliort the
police forwarded a meesage to Captain Shaw, at the
chief fire etation, Southwark Bridge.neid, and ill A
few l j 111 l IeAA skim seven eternu•re an.l several
manuals wen- at the moue of the outbreak. Ow iug to
the inflammable nature of the stock the tire raged
furiously, and evtigaled to the adj.' fff house,
tenanted by Mr. Ceerge Parish. Mr. Charles Fenton
and his beiithn trachomen in the district were the
Bret to arrive, and ii.. doubt they and ether. were the
means id ^eying eeveral liven. the flames increased,
• young wimein named .klier byres, a sister of Mrs.
Chandler, wan seen standing AA our of the wiudowe
on the 'second ntorey with a child in her anus. The
onigs,kerit, thinking that she was about to leap from
the second their window, divested themselves of their
costs and held them out in order to save the unfor-
tunate iccupant• whose- egress was cut id by the
burning i 4 the ntaireane. Suddenly the young YAKIMA
disappeared from sight, and it was thought that she
had been auffimeated. In a few APCMAIII, however, she
reappeared at the aintlow with two other children
and threw out a bed. Seeing it spread out on the
pavement, Eyres with groat ',returnee of mind
dropped Edith Harriet Chandler, aged five yearn,
who was caught by tile crowd, as well as Ellen
Athol Chandler, aged four yr.4lA. Unfortunately, the
third child, Elizabeth Chandler, aged three years,
struck the signboard in her descent, and was
seriously injured AA to 'mei...jute her removal with
her Sisters to St. TI as Hospital, where she now
lies in a critical condition, sad to relate, the
courageous w,,nuan threw herself out of the window
Just as the tire-escape was coining up the street and
fractured her spinal columu. There was no blame
attached to the fire brigade, as they wen. at the scene
of disaster within a few minutes of the cmitiegration.
The Unice togc te. fugue that the tenants had
scarcely any chance gif saving their liven. About
heliport three o'clock Captain Shaw sucooded M
saving the adjoining premise., but not before serious
damage had beim dime to the opposite homen, and
especially to the Hand and Flower tavern. On the
firemen effectim; an entrance the charred remains of
Mr. Henry Chandler, NH 31, yearn, the proprietor of
the establishment, were found on the bruit Hour stair.
came. He had evidently got out of bed angl ran
dowiettaire to obtain hi!, eaiullbox as tl.t k. ir was
tightly grasped in his right bawl. His wife and son
wtn• found burnt to death lying on the floor mar the
window whence the other children had been thrown.
The n•mains of the husband and wife, Mary Chandler,
aged 314 yaws, and her sum, Henry Chandler, aged
an yearn, were removed to the Ewer-street mortuary.
1t,,. believed that thi. 'tantrum a leakage of pig
in the basement had igiuttgl at a it if gas left
alight, and thus ...meson the clulesion and consequent
gat Tie. mainises are entitoly 'burets' 'MI, awl the
Wintki Illy'opixioit4. iif the nod 'Mattered.
The ehild, Elizabeth Chandler, alio win removed to
(My's lifeepitel ign Fraley, eufforing from bunis and
dietron Saturday mi,rning. The young ionsuin
Ayres, who was inetruniental iii saving the three
elidiinm (rem the thine., and whio was aeven•ly injured
by leaping from the Miming ',minims% died 4418.11111 day
inorumg, making the fifth victim the mourrence.