The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-03 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

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The Awful Calamity at Belvedere.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Early o❑ Saturday morning two gunpowder
magazines, situated on the southern bank of the

'Thames between Woolwich and Erith, exploded
with terrific violence, killing eight or nine persons,
if not more, wounding others, and carrying conster-
nation and alarm among the inhabitants of the
whole neighbourhood for miles round. Although
the scene of the catastrophe is distant about 15
miles from Charing-cross, the explosion was heard
and felt more or less throughout the whole me:
tropolis, and even at places 40 and 50 miles from
the spot. There is nothing in modern times to
compare with the calamity in the feeling of wide
spread terror which it produced, or in the in,„
tense interest which it has since excited, unless
it be the memorable explosion at Gateshead.upon-
Tyne, some eight or ten years ago. At first the
prevailing idea was that the inhabitants of the
metropolis and its suburbs had experienced the
shock of an earthquake, but that notion was
speedily dispelled, and by noon on Saturday
the exact nature of the catastrophe and
its locality were pretty generally known through-
out London. Later in the day the evening papers
appeared, containing accounts of the matter, and
were told in incredible numbers ; but thousands of
people, impatient to know the real truth, had
rushed down to the scene itself by railway in the
afternoon, to learn it for themselves on the spot.
By the evening, therefore, it was the theme of every
tongue, and probably for years past no intelligence
of any domestio event has occasioned a more start-
ling sensation.
The explosion occurred in a gunpowder depot be-
longing to Messrs. John Hall and Sons, and almost
simultaneously in a magez;ne of smaller size used
by Messrs. Daye and Barker, both of them located
in the Plumstead-marshes on the margin of the
Thames, two miles west of Etith, and about an
equal distance from the village of Belvedere, on the
North Kent Railway. Here, on about 20 acres of
ground, separated for obvious reasons from the rest
of the neighbouring inhabitants, but in the imme-
diate vicinity of the scene of their daily labour,
lived a few workingmen with their families in three
cottages engaged in. a perilous calling. One
was George Rayner, who acted es store-
keeper in the depot of Messrs. Hall, and
who was a married man with a family, and
another named Walter Silver, also married,
acted in a similar capacity under Messrs. Daye
and Barker. Each of these had a cottage to him.
self about 100 or 200 yards from the magazines, and
the rest, who were men employed in the larger depot,
occupied a cottage in common. The Messrs. Hall
have been engaged in the business of fabricating
gunpowder for more than 50 years, and have exe-
cuted large contracts ft otn time to time, both for our
and many foreign Governments. They have a large
factory in the neighbourhood of Faversham, in
Kent, occupying about 200 acres of ground, part of
the works at which were erected in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth. There the work of manufacturing
and packing gunpowder is conducted by a body of
trained artisans, with all the safeguards and pre-
cautions suggested by experience, and within the
last few years the proprietors have purchased a
large tract of adjacent land in order the more com-
pletely to seclude their operations from the habita-
tions of men. Their magazine at Belvedere was a
substantial building, about 50 feet square, and con-
sisting of two floors. It was erected five or six years
ago, at a cost of about £3,000, and around it were
18 acres of land, with the view to isolate the build-
ing. For miles at that part of the river there is an
embankment, which protects the low lying marshes
from inundation. Both their depot and that
of Messrs. Daye and Barker stood close behind the
embankment, and each had a wooden jetty pro-
jecting into the river, to facilitate the loading
and unloading of gunpowder. The quantity of
gunpowder stored in Messrs. Hall's magazine at the
time of the explosion and in two of their barges
which lay cif the jetty is variously estimated at
between less than 2,000 and 1,000 barrels, each
barrel containing 1001 b. They themselves state
that there were about 750 barrels in the depot and
perhaps 200 more in the barge. The quantity in
the magazines of Messrs. Daye and Baker has not
been ascertained. It should bo understood that
these were places used entirely for the storage of
gunpowder and in no sense for its manufacture,
and that none but experienced men were employed
at them. Rayner had been the storekeeper there
of Messrs. Hall for 12 years, and accustomed to the
manipulation of gunpowder from his boyhood. He
was an intelligent and most efficient man, and
they had complete confidence in him. Between
their mills at Faversham and the magazine at
Belvedere, a distance of about 30 miles, the gun-
powder is conveyed in sailing barges, each of them
navigated usually by a couple of men, and two of
these, as has been stated, were moored alongside
the jetty on Saturday morning discharging cargo.
The gunpowder, carefully packed in barrels, is
borne on trucks with copper wheels along wooden
rails, in order to preclude the possibility cf a spark
from friction, and the operation is conducted with
other precautions, such as the wearing of list slippers
by the men engaged in it. By common consent, the
explosion occurred at between 18 and 20 minutes
before 7 o'clock in the morning, and it is presumed
that Messrs. Hall's men were then unloading one
a
of the barges. A clock in the house of Mr. Henry
Hall, at South Dacenth, bout three miles from
Dartford and seven from the powder magazines, was
stopped by the explosion itself at precisely 18
minutes to 7. There were three distinct explosions
immediately following each other, and the belief of
persons oenversant with the trade is that the first
took place on board one of the barges; that the
terrific concussion produced by it tore asunder the
larger magazine, and some of the burning fragments
alighting in it caused an explosion infinitely more
appalling, and which was instantaneously followed
by the explosion of the smaller depot. At Erith
and Belvedere, where the shock was most felt, the
feeling produced by it is described as awful beyond
description. At Woolwich, about four miles off, the
first impression was that the powder works in the
Arsenal had exploded, and the wives and families
of the artisans at work there rushed to the spot in
a state of consternation. They were not allowed to
enter the place, and they stood terrorstricken in the
square in front. Shortly afterthe explosion showers
of letters, invoices, and other papers, which had been
borne on the wind a distance of four miles, fell within
the precincts of the Arsenal, and clearly indicated
the scene of the catastrophe, but it was long before
the people outside could be persuaded that their re-
latives were safe. Immediately after the calamity an
immense pillar of smoke rose from the spot high into
the air, thick, black, and palpable, with a huge
and about a quarter of an hour
spreading top, i
elapsed before it died away. So soon as t was sup-
posed to be safe to do so people from Erith and Bel-
vedere proceeded to the spot and ventured to explore
the ruins in search of any one that might be living,
Of the magazines themselves not a single stone re.
mained upon another, the very foundations being
torn up, and the site of that of Messrs Hall was
marked by huge fieeures and chaomo in tho earth,

immense lumps of which had been scooped out and
hurled about the adjacent field. The barges, with
the jetty, had been split into fragments and blown
into the air, and an enormous rent had been made
in the embankment itself, exposing miles of country
to the perils of inundation. Of the cottage of the
foreman Rayner nothing was left standing but a bit
of brick wall and a doorway. The lifeless bodies
of the unfortunate man himself and of his son, a
boy, were found close by, and his wife and a
child were dug out of the ruins alive, but hurt
in various ways. A child, niece of Silver, the
foreman at the other depot, was:killed, while he
himself escaped with some slight injuries. His
wife, fortunately had gone on a visit to some friends
at Maidstone a few days ago, and had not se-
turned. The cottage in which they lived is simply
a ruin, and the whole immediate neighbourhood is
covered with the debris of the fallen buildings.
Those of the sufferers, nine in number, who were
still living were conveyed with as much care and
speed as possible to Guy's Hospital. Oae of them
died shortly after admission, the lives of two others
were despaired of, and it is apprehended that the
men in charge of the barges have perished, for
they were missing up to yesterday.
The yawning gap in the embankment, about 100 yards
in width, next demanded attention, and most fortunately
Mr. Lewis G. Moore, an engineer connected with the Thames
Embankment, and who resides at Erith, at once perceived
and appreciated the emergency. Luckily, it was dead low
water at the time of the explosion, but still only about
four hours were available for the rough repair of the
damage against the approaching tido. A message was sent
by Sir Moore to Mr Houghton, one of the contractors under
the Metropolitan Bard of Works, at Crossness Point,
about a couple of miles off, and within 20 minutes after-
wards he had arrived upon the scene with 400 navvies, with
all their to.ds and barrows. A communication was also
forwarded to the garrison at Woolwich, and by half-past
9 o'clock detachments of Sappers and Miners and Artillery,
to the number of about 1,500, under the command of G,n.
Warde and Colonel Hawkins, reached the spot with all the
necessary implements, and set about the repair of the
breach with great good will, and after the true method of
military engineering. They were followed speedily by the
sth Fusileers, who kept the ground from intrusion, and
later in the day by the Marines, both from the garrison at
Woolwich. Before the troops arrived, the navvies, acting
under Mr Houghton and Mr Moore, wheeled large masses
of clay in front of the breach, while others puddled it into
a solid bottom, by which means the subsequent military
operations were facilitated. On their arrival the Sappers
and Miners made horizontal arches at the back of the breach
with bags of clay one upon another, and layers of earth in •
tervening, these arches presenting a formidable front to the
advancing tide, while the rest of the gap was being filled up
and puddled by the navvies. Time was precious and there
was a scarcity of barrows ; but the troops, adapting them-
selves to the emergency, formed themselves into lines from
places where clay was available, and passed it along in
lumps, from hand to hand, to the point of operations with
great ease and rapidity. About half-past 1 o'clock, when
near high water, the work became extremely exciting. The
whole force contended with the advancing tide inch by inch,
knowing that, if it once made a breach, the repair of the
mischief would be vastly more difficult than the work in
which they were then engaged, By 3 o'clock the embank-
ment was restored in this rough and ready, but most effi-
cient, manner, and the crisis had passe'. - It withstood the
succeeding tide, and was exposed to a severer trial in that
of yesterday, which, with a stiff north-easterly breeze, beat
heavily against it for a couple of hours. At one time,
apprehensions as to its safety existed, and a party of Sappers
and Miners, who had been telegraphed for, arrived from
Woolwich to assist in the emergency. In ease of failure, Mr
Moore had taken the precaution to send for about a dozen
barges, with a view to have them loaded with clay and then
scuttled in front of the breach as a kind of breakwater ; but
fortunately occasion did not arise for the expedient being
carried into effect. Ho speaks in enthusiastic terms of the
hearty co-operation of General Vi arde and Colonel Haw-
kins on the occasion, and of the practical energy shown by
the troops. In the course of the afternoon of Saturday
Captain Harris, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, went
down to the spot with a detachment of the A Division of
police, and yesterday again a still stronger force were on
duty there aiding the local constabularly.
The damage done at Erith in particular in the way of
broken glass and the injury to property in other respects is
lamentably great, and a public meeting of the inhabitants
has been convened for this afternoon to decide upcn some
course of action in the emergency. There is scarcely a
house in the place the windows of which have not been
shattered less or more, and the inhabitants are experi-
encing much inconvenience. The windows of the old
parish church have been blown in among the rest, as have
also those in particular of a whole row of houses, 20 or 30 in
number, situated on the brow of a hill leading to Bexley
and belonging to Mr. Everett. The explosion was heard
and felt at Uxbridge, about 30 miles off, and at Windsor,
Te,ddington, and many other distant places. Mr. William
Hall, the principal partner. of the firm whose property has
been destroyed, felt the concussion at the residence of Sir
Norton Knatchbull, at which he was staying, in the neigh-
bourhood of Ashford, and about 50 miles distant from the
spot. For some minutes after the explosion the earth heaved
and trembled with the effects of it in and about Erith and
Belvedere, and the people were appalled and terror. stricken
At Woolwich the usual drills and barrack duties were on
Saturday dispensed with as far as practicable, for the pur-
pose of rendering all possible aid to the sufferers from the ex-
plosion. The effects in the garrison and town were destructive.
The windows in the official departments, at private resi-
dences, and shops were shattered ; frames and sashes were
dashed in, and several persons were severely injured, In
many houses ceilings and portions of the walla were:shaken
down, and people rushed from their houses in dismay.
The whole of the medical staff of the garrison and town
hastened to the scene to render their assistance. Dr Dora-
ville, of the flagship Fisgard, who was:the first to reach
the place, was pulled down the river to the immediate
locality in the ship's cutter. In the shock many persons
were thrown violently from their beds to the floor and
their beds shook like ships at sea. In the Arsenal and
dockyard serious fears were entertained that the large
workshops wuld fall in, so great and violent was the
:
concussion felt by the two shocks immediately fol-
lowing each other. In connection with the showers of
paper a remarkable circumstance occurred. A lad
named Eaves was standing near the Royal gun facto-
ries, in which he is employed, and picked up one of
the torn pieces of paper which fell around him, Ho found
it to be part of the page of a ledger, in which his uncle, a
foreman in the employment of Mr Hall, had that morning
entered a memorandum, He had attached his signature at
the foot, together with the date of the entry—namely,
October 1, 1864. The shock of the explosion was distinctly
felt in every part of Chatham and Rochester, which are dis-
tant about 25 miles from the scene of the disaster. In
Chatham dockyard the windows of nearly every part of the
building were shaken and doors were forced open. The
cloud of smoke which followed the explosion was distinctly
visible from Fort Pitt and the Chatham Lines, and until
tiio telegrams conveying intelligence of the occurence arrived
a gene al opinion was entertained that the Government
powder magazines at Purfleet bad exploded. The shock of
the
s felt most severely in the more elevated
portions
ghLourhood.
tit the workshops of Mr. Stone, a large
navy contractor, which are
A explosionsof
Deptford,
the
Ut
er the arches of the railway
there, the gaslights, to the lattter of about 160, were
blown out simultaneously by the explos:on.
Sergeant Cox, of the police division sta;ioned at Erith,
gives the following narrative of the circumstiences :—He
was getting up when he heard the explosion. He yan out
and found all the back windows were broken, the sashes as
well as the glasses. He looked in the direction whence the
sound proceeded, and imagining from the smoke that one
of the magazines had exploded, he went back, and, having
quieted the fears of his wife, proceeded to the scene et the
disaster, procuring assistance by the way. Mr Churton
and Mr Tipple, two medical gentlemen of the vicinity,
were on the spot almost as soon as the police, and, with
Mr Matthewson and other surgeons, did all that was
possible for the sufferers. On arriving at the spot,
having literally picked his way through the heaps of rubbish
and masses of stones and brick ti at had boon strewn about
by the explosion, Sergeant Cox foun~ the body of Mr Geo.
Rayner in his own garden. Ho was mach cut about the
face, as it by splinters, and the back part of ale head over
the left ear was cut open, the brain protruding. He was
quite dead. Sergeant Cox next saw Rebecca Wright, who
was removed as soon as possible, under the care of the medi-
cal men. A son of Rayner, named Oliver, was next dis-
covered. His head was smashed in a fearful manner, and
death must have been quite instantaneous. Elizabeth
Wright, aged
.13 years, a daughter of the poor woman
previously mentioned, was next found, and she was
carefully removed to Guy's Hospital, but died a few
minutes after her admission. She had sustained a
compound fracture of the skull, a fracture of the left thigh,
and was severely burnt on the chest and upper extremity of
the body, The bodies of Rayner and his son were removed
to the Belvedere Hotel, and placed in a shed to await the
coroner's inquest, and shortly after the bcdy of a man, ap-
parently ab ut 60 years of age, was found in the mud of the
river, and conveyed to the same place.
Yesterday thousands upon thousands of people of visited
the scene of the catastrophe, travelling mostly by
the North
Kent Reilway, and it required the aid of a strong body
of police at the Erith and Belvedere Stations to maintain
order and prevent acciient. •
of the Belve-
grounds
dere and Erith Station were crowded with thousands of
Long after dark the platform and
people waiting to be conveyed homeward:a
rapidly to Lon-
At 11 o'clock the trains were coming
that a large
don-bridge, the passengers by which
reportedthe line.
number of persons were still waiting down

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guns arrived at Malta on the 2 Sptember
the Piraeus. The usual salutes were exchanged
between her, the forte, and the English flagship.

;on.

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