The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-21 00:00:00

THE LATE EXPLOSION AT KRITH.

TO THE =ITO& OP Tllll =nib&
Sri,—Notwithstanding the recent inquiry by the
coroner and jury at Erith relative to the late fearful explo-
sion of gunpowder, and also the exertioas being made by
the government, it is • notorious fact, and eau be proved
if necessary, that • barge laden with from tea to fifteen
tone of gunpowder is now moored off the village and close
to the training ship Worcester, to the alarm end danger of
the inhabitants.-1 am, Ste., ONE OF THE JURY.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN LIVERPOOL—On Friday
morning an accident occurred at the North Haymarket,
which resulted is the death of two men, two other' being
very seriously injured. Specious sod lofty abeds are now
in courts of erection in the market, being intended for use as
drill sheds by the various volunteer corps of Liverpool, as
well as for market purposes. These erectiooe ere to be open
at the front, and inclosed with substantial brick walla at the
back and sides. The rods, about 60 feet spa°, are to
be separated by and rest upon ponderous girder-like pieces
of workmanship, of iron, supported by massive columns or
pillars of the mom metal. The southernmost of the sheds,
the one abutting upon Juvenal-street, was Dearest oomph).
tion ; the beams and rafters of the roof, the former bound
together with iron ban, due., bad been placed upon
the walla, and it was almost ready for the elates. A
breeze annum up about twelve o'clock on Thureday night,
and in the earlier part of Friday morning it was blowing
stiff from the westward. A number of men in the employ
of Mr. Abraham Thomas, parlor and contractor, Great
Oxford-street, had for some days been engaged in taking up
the old paving inside the sheds, and four of these man,
named John Davies, ganger ; James Kik:anima, sod demise
Hughes, and Michael Maier, all labourers. proceeded to
their work as usual at six o'clock. Tte wind was then
very high, but no danger to the workmen was apprehended.
About half.past six o'clock the entire roof rf the shed
alluded to suddenly tell in with a tremendous crash, burying
beneath the 11.3.ris the whole of the unfortunate men
named. Davies and Kilcannos were lakes ont from amidst
the ruins of the roof, dead. Gavial was fouad with •
beam lying across his chest, which was much crushed, but
be was not otherwise disfigured. Kilcanoon's bead had
beim completely smashed by one of the heaviest beams,
underneath which hie body was lying. Two other men,
named Hughes and Mabee, were also seriously injured.
REItuVaL of THE GREAT EXHILITIoN BCILDING.
--On Saturday the sappers and miners wider General Sir
J. Burgoyne, Colonels Lovell cad Scott and Lienteneut
Knocker, continued their operations in connexion with the
demolition and removal of the remaining portions of the
Great Exhibition building. The time fixed was 11 o'clock,
but it was nearly 12 before the apparatus was ready and
operations commenced. The portion of the budding to be
displaced was the great octagonal tower in the Cromwell.
road, which bad restated previous attempts to overthrow it,
although great breaches bad been made by the explosive
charges is its bass. The chambers were charged on the
occasion with about 50bs, of powder in addition to a con-
siderable quantity of gun cotton, sad at 12 o'clock the
batteries, ona of them in charge of Lieutenant Knocker and
the other of Colour-Sergeant !Mane, were simultaneously
fired by electricity, the effect being the almost iestantaimous
fall of the tower. This makes the sth tower now removed,
making in all several thousand tons of materials displaced
in • few weeks, and which ty manual power would have
occupied maoy months. The next and final operations of
the engineer' will be directed to the removal of the greed
outlaw' in the Cromwdl-ioad, where the mass of material
is of great magnitude.
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