The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-22 00:00:00

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A few minutes before 7 o'clock yesterday morning
• terrific boiler explosion occurred in the well-known iron-
works of Messrs. Rigby and Beardmore, situated at Park-
head. In the portion of the works where it happened,
when in full operation, no fewer than nine ponderous steam
hammers are employed night midday in compelling into shape
glowing masses of red-hot iron. Motive power to these tre-
mendous machines is 'applied by • series of boilers.
The one which burst, for fortunately only one gave way,
was used for working a powerful five-ton hammer, situated
almost directly in front of the Duke-street gateway,
the boiler being located • few yards to the west. From •
slackness experienced lately in the receipt of orders, the
works had not been doing much since the holidays, but
on Monday this boiler was doing duty, and at 6 'p.m.
was placed in charge of a young man named John
Tennant, for the night-shift. So far as is known,
Tennant attended to his work in the usual way, and
all went well until five or ten minutes before 7 in the
morning, when the boiler exploded with frightful
violence, uoending like • rocket straight up in the air
for upwards of three hundred feetdous, and fallinglvt
directly on its bed with a tremen crash.
the confusion caused by such • disastrous and unex-
pected event had • little subsided, and the eked of
steam been dissipated, search was made for the killed
and wounded, of whom, no doubt was entertained, there
must be a Beat number. It was found that three persons
had been killed :—Arch. Russ, ' forgeman ; Wm. Purdie,
• hammermen and James Paterson, • bricklayer's boy.
Ross and Purdm were married men, we are informed, and
leave widows and three or four children each. Six
labourers were discovered to be so seriously injured in
miseellaneous ways, by welding, cuts, and bruises, as to
render their removal to the infirmary advisable, and
thither they were conveyed socordinily.—Olsopow Basing
Citizen.

Some extraordinary weather has been experienced
in Bootiand during the last few days. In add itianto severe
rain, thunder, and lightning, there was • two hours'
storm of hail, that 'tripped the trees, and destroyed tom,
shrubs, and flowers. The hailstones averaged five-eighths
of an inch in len, and thiy lay upon the ground in
planes three feet &.sp. The ,country is said to leek as
desolate as

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