The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-11-11 00:00:00

TIRRWORIci XPLOSION Al LAMBETH.

The judieial investigation into the oiraimetatima
attendlog the deaths of Ralh Fruwiok, aged 46;
J.saie, his wlfe ; Wood, 72 ; Allred Wood,
3; Annie Wood, 3 ; Dtvisella Lear., 48; All.. Lewis,
9; end Leah Lewis, 3, eight persons who were killed at
• firework esplosloa in Lambeth, on Tuesday morning,
woo opened on Friday morning by Ur. C.rter, coroner.
Alfred Crompton Wood, airier deposing to the
identity of Philha Wood, him mother, and of ringed and
Annie Wood, his children, said be osoupied the house,
used the book pail or, first Car beak, *Ado, and
kitchen, auh-letting the first CO( front to • man named
Lewis. and the trout parlour to Ralph Feu wick. Went
to work on Tueenay, and returning home di.ouvered the
house had been burnt down, end hie mother and two
children burnt to death. After Fsnwiok hod lived with
me soin• months I dboovered he was • firework MIMI.
foot . I told him he would not be able to briog any
combustible material into the house. He :spited "Ton
may rely upon It, I shall DM do that. I bats too muoh
regard for my ow. Ide." I never had the alighted
notion that Feniriek was making fireworks in my boom,
or bad any of the meiosis's for so doing, with the
exception of theee articles required for the manufacture
of the eases.

Charles Lewis, barge smith, identified the bodies of
his wife Dresslla and his two children, saki I was never
seqsaloted with newlek and his wife, nor did I know
their names. I always believed that they were map.
printers. The Ooroner.—l suppose, Lewis. that you
have lose everything? Witness—Fee, Sir i wife,
ehildren, and the home. The Ooronar.—And Wood, I
suppose, hes loin all bat his wife and hie one child?
Wisner& —Every slob, Sir; though that ain't mush, by
the side of my poor old mother and two obildren.
John Fenwick, son of Ralph Fenwlek, said I helped
hint tarry on his business of a firework menufecturer,
and made fireworks there on my own account. The
Cereuer.—Ton surely knew that your father wits doing
wrong in pursulog so dangerous an oesupation in snob
plaew Witness—Yea, I did. The Corooer.—Then
why did you sot warn the landlord of the house?
Wltmese—lt was no business of mine; they knew he
was making firework oases, end might have known that
be male the fireworks also. My father kept no Kea-
powder at to, Broad street, but only rued mixed com-
position., kept in canisters and kegs, but I never saw
any her of gnapowder. We used funnels and rammer,
le the bui&ess, but I never sow • mellet employed for
the purpose of ramming down the oompontion. •
Joryman.—l 'swears your father made squibs? Wit-
nest.— Oh, yea
Thomas Rumbeld said—On Tuesday morning, I was
walking down Broad-greet, when I heard • load ample-
sios, quietly followed by another, sad, upon running
forward, saw that the front parlour window of the house
No. 50 bad been blown out, and that the house was
alight. The front room was full of dames and smoke,
and there was • strati smell of gunpowder. Seeing •
man (Fenwirsk) lying by the doorway, I rushed In sod
brought him out. He was perfectly nude, and had
evklentle been tilled by the forty of the expiation.
Louise Wood, wife of the first relining, said—l was
In the hitchers at the time of the explosion, which
mimed to travel backwards, throwing down the walls
and waineoeting of the book parlour and the outside
kitchen wall, through the opening In which I macusged
to crawl with my daughter.
Dr. Archer Parr deposed that death bad resulted In
sash miss from the buns Some of the bodies had
been literally charred to a cinder.
Willtsm Blamlye, Superintendent of Fire Brigade,
deposed to Owner, the bodies and materials used in
making fireworks. He eontioned.—l believe thet
Fen•lck win in bed when the first exrloslon occurred,
and that he then leaped out of beds He win killed by
the wooed expiation.
John Novick re-coiled arild,—My father manufae-
lured coloured fires principally, in which there could
not be the leaat danger : be alto cos& the coloured
stars for rockets. These stare hod to be dried after
they were made, which was done by placing them to
the sir or by the fire. No hum would ensue unless
th- stara were put too tear the fire. A number of
ebyurioals are used In the wetting of colonred fire.
M•jer 11.kindie : And do you mean tom: that these
dangerous Ears are dried by the fire?
Witness : They are plead al near to the fire as
pordiele, but It is my seldom they are made In a little
room like my father's.
Skijor Majendie : Do you believe that either of the
eompositions, the remains of which were found is the
trays, would ignite spontensously
Witness: No ; I nailer know such a thing to happen,
and I am a firework manufacturer myself.
The jury returned the following err liet :—" That
the several persons met their deaths by horning, by
reason of the taking 6r3 of materials need for the
makirg of fireworks, and that such fire was deo to
aocideutal causes."

rho Hon. 11lot C. Yorke thiolts the ..xtinetion of the
Gams Laws would bring about the uithdrawal of the
rioh frntn country seats to reside In towns.
The foundation stone of mow induatnal buildings at
Exeter, to sooemmodate 200 familia., was laid ca
nand&

THI AhHeeTIII Wet. —The Daily Noes special 00M111-
poo dont at Cap. Coast Cud* sends highly Important
DIMS about the Alhentee war. decotdirg to informa-
tion 'blob has been rectelved there, the King of
Ashanti" has morn that be will Joke the place or
perbh with Ids whole army In the attempt. Two
eeparate bodies of Lis forum, one of 20,000 and
soother of 12,000 men' had crossed the Posh. All the
stoesituypreparationahad been made to receive them.
The bosh had been cleared, a scheme of defer°.
drawn op, arrensemeatt made for landme the mark..
at a moment's notice, and for the 00-operation of the
flack
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Tan Miturt.UX—Astions were brought lath. I...lntiralty
Court, OD Tuesday, a.ainst the Murillo for £21.000, by
owners of the Northilort for It. leas by the oollieloa.
A decree we. asked to all the vessel, as the owners
di not appear. Sir B. Phllllmore, granting it, said
"I find It diflionll to express in adrquat• terms the
indignities whiob the brutality and munnees of eon•
duos of those who had the *barge of the Murillo rout
exalt* in the bosom of evety man not void of tie
ordinary feelings of humulty. This ease, Indeed,
repesesala all the cruelty without any of the courage of
the pirate."
RAILWAY AOCIDINTS —There were several railway
aosideate on Thursday. The most various took plus at
the Daytime rotation of the North-Reston Railway,
betweea • train teehnically known ea the East Cast
unties aid • goofs (rile :-11 appears that the latter
train I,l4leauged in shouting about 100 yards south of
lie station, when the express dashed Into It. Owe lady
was killed, and several other preempts received melons
Injuries. A baby below's to the deceased was got out
11111•11, An ovular having to be sawn through (ho
earrings. The driver states that the distant rAgoal
showed the line to be slur—On the Oaledoniu Rail-
way at Middle static", near Perth, • guard was killed,
and several other mea injured, by • pilot seen* running
Into a aside train, laugh bed Jut bun situated to
allow lime mail to pans Bessuly had tie liquid men
bees taken off lie pilot engine •hsti another geode
lisle name up and nu into it, throwing the am good.
*kin some distance teak. No one wee imbued by the
second willies, those In chirp leaping off. The
driver and guards of the serrond goods train state that
they did not see the Menus* danger signal ; they eisw
the bogie ding., signal, but then it was too late to
prevent the s.UW.o. Abut eighty selves were
and a number were severely Injured—The third
aeoldent, another collintoe, occurred en the min line of
(ho Leseselint sad Yorkehlre Railway at • plass known
se Inghani's Juno**, situated between Devrebery and
Wakefield. The pearrengor train leaving Manebeater at
five &aloe& ran into • goods train, and snaked through
the guard's van and some trusts laden with wool.
The engine and three carriages left the rails, and us of
the carriages was much splintered. Fortunately, there
were not many passengers, but about twenty persons
were more or lea hill, by the solllidon.—On Friday at
Preston atation, on the North Union Railway, • coal
train, of about 36 full waggon., ran into • goods train
that wits being shunted. Great damage was does.
Both mail lines were blocked for h hours, and the
sesuroulation of trains on each doe was something
extraordinary; they eztendLd, with short intervals,
for mias. . -

TTruus Aim &mum Fiviu.—Th• late Dr. Turley
of Worcester, stolid hi a Leger that be found
Lame:Amnia PYRITIC BALIIIII • specific, no other
remedy besog given. Take and use it a'oo Ito the lo•at
prevenUee.-11o1d by all chemists end the maker, 119,
Holborn-hUI. .

MAD *5 Bacrusa's MUSICAL 0 T MSASI Ulf FOS
LADISS, No, 35, Bruton•street, Berkeley Square, W.—
Round &caldera and stoopiLg habits cured in three
month& The art of skating taught at 10s. GI. pr
lemon. Madame Brenner's new work on Calisthenies
for the use of robools forwarded on the receipt of 104-
6J. Governesses thoroaghly initiated in au, art of
toaohlog to three lessons.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—. Aladacit and Depression
of Bpizi4s. —Whenever there Is any rums of bits, or
when that eieretion does not naturslly peas front the
Liver, it enters the eirenistioo, vitiates the blood, and
gives rise to headache, Oatmeal, wearinees, and depres-
sion of kptrits. This aril Is readily sorreeted by a few
doses of them pills, which work a speedy cure without
cresting nausea, or wesktining the
gusto. too too frequently entailed by the adminstration of
purgatives. Holloway's Pills simultaneous purify and
strengthen. They Improve tLe appetite, cleanse the
palate, and invigorate the stomach. These pills act se
Lb. most suers esful alterativre, and eff, et a Went and
oertain shaoge for the bettor in every organ whim!' km
broom) di•ordered, either through luxurious living or
otha awe& _

ltoilt INN I—Fog THU TIM AND BuAvii.—l, few
drops of the liquid "Flotilla.' sprinkled on • wet
tooth brush produce • pleasant lather, which
thoroughly cleanses the teeth host all parasites or
imputittee, hardeos the gums, prtventa tartar, stops
decay, gives to the T‘rith • peoullar poorly whitsatem,
gad • delightful fragrance to the breath. It removes
all unpleasant odour ariaing from decayed teeth or
tobeeco smoke. "The Tragrrnt Pledgee' being com-
posed in part et honey and sweet berbsi, it sometimes
turns oloudy ; but It is &llama to gm taste, and is the
greatest toilet dissever; of the age. Price 2r. fid. for the
liquid , aad Is. per jar for the Pinellas "powder." of all
Chemist' and Perfumes. Prepared by H. O. Gamer.
493, Ozterd-alrent, Looks.