The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-15 00:00:00

CRICKET.

THRLTI V. TSICINTT-HOUR OF Till IHETRoDoLITAN CLUBS,
FOR Till BTNEFIT OP THR HOWLIRN.—This match, played at
Middlesex County °mutt& Caledonian-road, Islington. w►s con-
cluded yesterday in a drawn game. The following is the score :
—The Twelve, first innings, WU. The Twenty-tour, lir:it innings,
: second innings. 122.
UNITED SOUTH ENGLAND V. SOUTHENN. —Flay did not com-
mence till three p.m. in consequence of tho rain. Score up to six
p.m.:—United. first innings. OU ; second innings, two wickets
down, 21,. Southend, first innings, 89.

ALARMING ACCIDENT ON A RACECOURSE. —Y es-
terday afternoon, during the running for the Wolver-
hampton Stakes, a fearful accident happened, by which
several persons have been injured so seriously as to be
taken as patients to the South Staffordshire General Hos-
pital in Wolverhampton. The accident happened at ten
minutes past four o'clock, when some thirty thousand
people were at the highest pitch of excitement consequent
upon the coming in of the horses in the race. Near
the winning-post was a temporary ',tend. upon which about
five hundred spectators had purchased standing places.
The occupants seemed to be intensely interested in the
issue of the race, and like the rest were cheering and
waving their hats. Suddenly, with a terrible crash,
the whole fabric gave way, end its occupants fell to the
ground. The structure was composed of seven tiers of
timber planks fastened to uprights by ropes, and the cen-
tres being supported upon cross timbers. The injuries sus-
tained by some were so shocking that but little hope is ex-
pressed of their recovery. Amongst the spectators in the
adjacent grand stand were the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers,
Sir Robert Peel, Bart., the Earl of Stamford and Warring-
ton, Sir Henry Johnson, and other noblemen.
FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER AT
DUMBARTON.—Ahout 6 o'clock on Sunday evening, an ex-
plosion of gunpowder occurred in a dwelling-house near
Crosslett, involving serious injury to seven or eight of the
inhabitants, and the probable death of one or more. The
house ia in the neighbourhood of a whinstone quarry, and the
foreman and a few of the labourers reside in the house, the
former being married and having a wife and six children.
The quarrying is carried on by bleating, and, unfortunately,
the foreman for some time kept the powder in a barrel in
his dwelling-house, although a place was provided for
storing it outside. On Sunday evening some of the
children in the house had been amusing themselves with
lucifer matches close to where the powder (about 121 b.)
lay, when the dangerous material caught fire and ex-
ploded, blowing a great portion of the roof of the house
into the air, and leaving the whole building, which
consisted of two apartments above and three below,
in a mass of ruins. Four families, two above and
two below, were in the house at the time, and consisted
of thirteen adults and nine children, the greater number
of whom are more or less injured. The foreman's wife
and four of his children have been frightfully burned and
disfigured, and are in a very dangerous state, some of them
being completely blind. A number of the inhabitants of
the upper fiats of the building were precipitated headlong
to the ground floor, and one of the children was blown out
at a window.

FALL OF THE Root AT PRESTON RAILWAY
STATION.—Shortly before three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
a portion of the roof of the Preston Railway station fell in,
with a tremendous crash. The condition of the station
has been complained of for years, and the Preston corpora-
tion Wive time after time sought to induce the owners—
the London and North Western and Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Companies—to improve or remove
it. It was the roof of the eastern sideof the
station that gave way. Glass was hurled in all directions,
iron girders were throws about, pieces of wood were torn in
pieces, booking-office windows were smashed, and a length
of roof measuring about 40 yards' was completely
demolished. At different parts of the day large numbers
of persons occupy the seats upon which the debris fell,
and if the accident had taken place a little later, it is
probable that the loss of human life would have been
great. As it was, a woman was very badly cut in the
head, and a pointsman had a narrow escape.
CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE San.uxa DAY.
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