The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-14 00:00:00

BOILER EXPLOSION AT TOTNIS.

PLYMOUTH, TrzeDAT.

There wu an explosion of an engine boiler at
Totnes to-day. The roof of a shed wsa partially blown off,
and am man in the employ of the South Devon Railway was
killed. It was the engine of the down goods train, whkik
left Ruler about saves o'clock this morning.

EXPLOSION NEAR AIRDRIE.-.-011 Friday night
a terrible catastrophe occurred at Dandyven Ironwork;
near Coatbridge, in the neighbourhood ot Airdrie. Abaft
9 o'clock the No. 6 furnace exploded. It appears that up is
the thin of the accident tin furnace was apparently is Sint,
rate working order, and it a conjectured that in some part elf
the forn•ce • quantity of the oontenta had got incrusted to
the side, which,gmting free by the heated air continually blow.
tag In, fell suodenly down, mad thereby forced out a large
quantity of what had collected underneath. Three men end
a lad who were working in front of this were overwhelmed
In an instant by the liquid mars of amnia and ashes. Ths
some which followed wee heartrending is the extreme. Their
clothes were consumed, and nearly every part of their boding
fearfully scorched. Their cries were pitiable, and the melt
ran soon dismace from the place, bat the poor boy could WC
escape. With some diffioalty, however, be was extricated
and taken home, but died within an hour afterwards. Th•
three men lingered in excrudating pain till Saturday, when
they expired.
CLEVER CAPTURE OP A HORSE-STEALER.—III 002
market on Wednesday a men offered fur sale a Mare
worth about 301. at so low • tiore that sospiclon wail
I molted, but eventually sold It to • Colchester dealer.
named Plumb, for 81. Plumb resold it to • Brandon
! dealer, named B,sed for 141. 10e. Stead resold it to •
Gourley dealer award Drake for 181. 10e., and Dram
resold it to • Feedbags dealer named Covell for 181. Rt.
There facts cams to the knowledge of the police, and Con-
►table Vail biaring that the orgies] possessor of the mare
WWI about to start for Thetford, west to the Angel Izr
sad sot seeing him there, got upon the Thetford coach
rods as ter as the Railway Tavern, where a man somewhat
Stager to the one of whom he had received a description got
up. His elliee to the; oftcor's questions being unmade-
factory, Veil &eked him to accompany him to the station-
boos% and on the way, after telling two or three dif-
ferent tales, he said, '• It's no use telling any more
lies about it. I found the man with the linker upon
it, between Lopha:• Whlie Horse sod Carboldisham
dues or four days ago, and brought her awe to sell
tc-day." The prisoner (who then pave the name of
George Bhaldrskr, end stated he belonged to Oakley)
had not been locked up mom than twenty minute",
when the superintendent of police from Market Down/tun
arrived in pursuit of the stolen mare. Icapector Roberts
sccompsnicd him to Fordhsn, wh, re the mireiug property
was recovered, sad the prisoner has since been removed tO
Market Downbeat' to await an examimatioo boi,,re the Nor.
folk imagist, ates. It has 1.10011 been amerisinied that the
man Invested a portion of the N. at shop of W.
Mattbswe, clothier, in a cost, !rowers. &c., by the mesas of
which he doubtless hoped to avoid detection.—Bey totif
Norwich Pest.