The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1881-01-22 00:00:00

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BOILER EXPLOSIONS.

A fatal boiler explosion also occurred on Sunday
afternoon in a house in Spencer-street, Carlisle, ocat-
pied by Major Gullies, of the 55th Regiment. A
private soldier acting as servant to Major Gillies, went
into the kitchen to do something with the boiler, but
it is not known what. While he was there the boiler
exploded, and the man was killed instantaneously.
Two boiler explosions Occurred on Saturday and
Sunday at Southport. A boy, aged two years, was
killed on Saturday, and a cook, in Albert-road, on
Sunday, received such fearful injuries from a similar
occurrence that it is feared she will not live. '

On Saturday morning a kitchen boiler exploded at
the house of Mr. John Blakely, Warbrick-moor,
Aintree, near Liverpool, throwing the whole of the
range and chimney-piece into the room, breaking
every article of furniture, and setting fire to the place.
The fire was extinguished with snow. The innetes of
the house escaped unhurt.

About eight o'clock on Sunday night there was a
s,imilar explosion, with more serious consequences, at
the house of Mr. Rundell, Beaconsfield-street,
Liverpool. Mrs. Lakey, 64, mother of Mrs. Rundell,
and a visitor, Miss Eccleston, 19 years, were
seated before the 'kitchen fire' when the boiler at
the back of the grate exploded with a loud report.
The whole kitchen range was blown out, and it is
supposed Some portion of it struck Mrs. Lakey,
for, besides being seriously scalded about the
head, she received other • very severe injuries. Miss
,Eccleston, too, was badly scalded about the face and
body, and both were removed to another part of the
house, where they received medical attendance. The
pantry wall was blown out, and the outside wall a the
back of the house was split up, the whole building
being so shaken that it had to be propped up,
A serious boiler explosion took place on Monday in
the house of Mr. Canning. "Cliftonville-avenue, Bel-
fast. During the night a pipe in connection with the
kitchen boiler got frozen, thereby stopping the supply
of water. The boiler, having got thoroughly heated,
burst with a loud crash. Mrs. Canning and the ser-
vant girl were both injured; the wall between Mr.
Canning's house and the adjoining house was blown
down by the explosion, and another wall in Mr.
Canning's residence became damaged in a similar
manner, The furniture in both houses was greatly
injured by the explosion.

SERIOUS RAILWAY COLLISION.
A serious collision took place on Monday morning
near Dundee Joint Railway Station. As a train from
Forfar, containing about 300 passengers, was ap-
proaching the home signal, it came into violent col-
lision with an empty train shunting out of the station.
The shock was so severe that the carriages of the
latter train were smashed. A large number of passen-
gers in the Forfar train were more or less hurt, among
those injured being—Amelia Tappin, nurse, Broughty
Ferry, severely cut about the head; William Craig
Thomson, corn merchant, Dundee, left leg injured;
and William Sowden, clerk, Dundee, both legs seriously
injured. These and others were attended to by the
doctors, and subsequently removed to their homes.

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