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DREADFUL EXPLOSION IN THE CITY, AND PRO-
BABLE Lose or Ltrz—Lest evening, between the hours of
b and f o'clock, the greatest excitement was caused in the
immediate vicinity of Upper Thames-street, City, in cons.-
queues of a terrible explosion occurring, by which two men
were dreadfully burnt, and the front of the basement of
an antiquated building blown into the street, at a time
when the carriage-road was crowded with pining vehicles.
I The premises in which the misfortune took place formed
the angle of Broken-wharf and No. 44. Upper Thames-
street. They were in the occupation of Masers. J. Aitchison
and Co., the brewers of Scotch and pale ales, Mann. Des-
mond and Co., Morn. Job and Co., merchants, and Mr.
Mains, glass and lead merchant. A strong smeU of one
was detected is the basement of Messrs. Aitchison.' portion
of the premise, when Mr. Broad, the gas engineer, living
immediately opposite the house, was sent fur, to see
whether or not the gam was escaping from the burners or
pipes. Mr. Broad at ones sent one of his men, named
Thomas, across the road to look to the fittings. He was in
the act of demanding in the dark, when he noticed a man
following him with a naked lighted candle. He told him
to take the candle back again, fur if be came any further in
all probability he would blow the house up. The man,
however, followed him to the door of the basement, and the
moment it was opened by Thomas, the gam came in contort
with the flame of the candle, and an explosion ensued,
blowing the front of the basement into the street. Thomas,
the gasman, was blown down on his hack, his boots were
forced off his feet, and it is stated that some of his toes are
injured. The whole of his clothes were set in a blue, and
another man, named Arthur, who jots about the neigh •
bourhood, was also knocked down, and was very badly
burned. The two unfortunate men were taken to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, and there appears no chance of
Thomas's recovery.
SINOULAR AND FATAL Pm ACCIDENT NE. ,R
HANLZT.—A singular and unhappily fatal accident oocnrrnt
at the Deep Pit, near Hanley, on the night of the 9th init.
The engine was drawing water, and was under the charge
of a steady and reliable man, named Peter Holdcroft. James
Bailey at this time was acting as banksman, and at nine
o'clock he heard a crash, which he at first thought was orxi-
sioned by the cage slipping out of the rods. The immediate
cause of the accident., -however, was the breaking of apiece of
iron which discharged an important office in the mechanism
of the drum, and the result was that the great mass of
wood and iron of which it was composed, weighing between
four and five tons, together with the ponderous wire rope
which was wound round it, fell, and in its fall crushed
through the flooring of the room and the elusive hams
which supported it, descended upon the flooring of
the second room, burst through a portion of that
also, and then fell upon Holderok. who, it ap-
peered, had upon hearing the first crash left the handle
of the engine and ran for safety into one oorner of the
room. Unfortunately this was under that part of the ceiling of ,
the enene room through which alone the falling substance
from above forced its way, and he was buried mammoth.
Bailey and two other men at once commenced clearing away
the debris, bet twenty minutes elapsed before they reached
the body of Holdcroft, who was then quite dead. At an
inqueet held before Mr. Harding, coroner, the jury returned
a verdict of accidental death. Through this unfortunate
occurrence three hundred men and boys will be throws oat
of work for a fortnight—Wolverhampton Chronicle.