The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-03 00:00:00

Tremendous Conflagration at Lambeth.

Last evening the inhabitants of Lambeth, near the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury's palace and Hodges' distillery, were
thrown into a state of excitement, owing to the outbreak of
a fire of no small magnitude in the extensive range of pre-
mises belonging to Messrs. Ogleby and Co., the well-known
wax bleachers and patent candle manufacturers, situate in
Paradise-street, Lambeth.
The property in question, as most of the public are
aware, covers an immense space of ground, and comprises
sundry erections, some of brick and timber, others of cor-,
rugated iron and glass, whilst the open yard serves the
purposes of a wharf or general depot. Each building con-
tained many tons of fat, oil, spermaceti, and other equally
inflammable articles, such as are calculated to spread dis-
may, which was the case last evening, upon the sudden
outbreak of a tiro in such an extensive range of buildings
as stood upon the ground. To add to the excitement which
prevailed upon the alarm being raisedb,li tziineghnpoerucosepesessratryy:iton
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by poor people, and it was distressing to see how they
hurled their furniture into the street to avoid the ravages
of the flames.

From inquiries made, it appears that Mr. Myers, the
manager of the works, left the premises at 5 o'clock, when
the factory appeared perfectly safe from fire, but in less
than an hour afterwards some one cried out that the pressing
rooms of the factory were in flames, Sueh, unfortunately,
turned out to be correct, and in less than 5 minutes subse-
quently immense bodies of flame rolled from that part of the
factory, and huge sheets of smoke nearly obscured from
the public eye the Archbishop's palace. It then became
apparent that a fire which could not easily be extinguished
had begun.
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the fire-engines, and, in a space of time incredibly such various
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the parish engine attended, closely followed by CaP • _
and Lieut. Becker, with three engines from
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of the district, and Mr Foreman
Hen-
derson, the chief engineer
of the steam engines.
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neighbourhood at the time, upon seeing the
who was in the neighb .
high into the air, hurried to the spot, and
flames rising so
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over and seizing upon the distillery, laboured incessantly,
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further
extension of mischief was over ; but the damage done to
Messrs Ogleby and Cia'e premises is very serious. It is
gratifying to state, however, that instead of the whole of
their hands—as is generally the case when a catastrophe
7"l
occurs in large establishments—being thrown out of em-
ployment, the business of the firm Neill be carried on as
heretofore. The damage done, large as the fire was, may
be described as follows :—The boiling houses and pressing
rooms destroyed, and various other portions of the factory
damaged by fire and water. The arigin of the tire is un-
known. The firm was insured in the Phoenix, the Royal,
the General, the Hand in Hand, the Imperial, and the
West of England Fire-offices. Messrs C. and H. White,
of the County Fire-office, with Mr Superintendent Webb,
and Inspectors Heath, Edmunds, and Byron, rendered es-
sential aid to the firemen by keeping an immense crowd of
spectators out of danger, and with the help of the workmen
in removing sundry casks of fatty matter out of the reach
of the dames.
Several persons in Norfolk-place and Norfolk-row will
also be serious losers,

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