The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-18 00:00:00

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Majority for Humphrey

Fatal Boiler Explosion in Glasgow,

On Friday afternoon a boiler explosion, which
has already occasioned the death of two men, and
which there is only too much reason to fear may
yet give rise to fatal results in one or two other
cases, occurred in the chemical works of Messrs.
Charles Tenneut and Co., St. Rollox, Glasgow.
The portion of the establishment in which the
accident occurred is an extensive shed-like building
where the maganes© recovery process is carried on.
A good deal of machinery seems to be employed in
this portion of the works, and the engine which
affords the necessary power is supplied with steam
from a set of boilers placed, not as is often the case,
in the open air, but within the building. The
boilers, which are five in number, have, we believe,
been in use about three years, and certainly, to
judge by appearances, they seem to be of the most
substantial construction.

At the time when the accident occurred only
three of the boilers were in use. It was about a
quarter to four o'cicck when the men employed
about the works and the people in the imme-
diate neighbourhood were startled by a pretty
loud report, and presently those in the imme-
diate vicinity of the boiler found themselves
enveloped in clouds of steam and exposed
to streams or plashes of scalding water. When
the panic occasioned by the catastrophe had par-
tially subsided, and the steam had begun to clear
away, the nature of the accident became apparent.
It was discovered that the boiler had been lifted
bodily a foot or two from its bed, and bad settled
down again on the ruins of the brickwork which
had enclosed it. The brickwork at both ends was
blown down and lay in two heaps of debris, and a
considerable portion of that which had supported
the west side of the boiler was also displaced. The
boiler itself seemed externally to have sustained no
damage, but on looking inside it was found that
the flue had been torn to pieces. Giving way in this
manner, the boiler had belched forth the boiling
water, with which it was charged, through the flue
apertures at both ends. Fortunately, at the north
end, the scalding steam was arrested in its course
by the opposite wall of the firehole; while at the
opposite extremity the wall of the kiln above re-
ferred to interpoed an equally effective barrier to
its passage, Had it not been for these obstructions,
the water must have been dashed about the pre-
mises to a much greater extent than it was, and in
that case a much larger number of persons than those
who have actually been injured would have suffered
from the calamity. As it is, the results are exceed-
ingly lamantable. When the real magnitude
of the disaster had been ascertained, it ap-
peared that seven of the men employed in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of the boiler had been more
or less seriously injured. The engineman, John
Richmond, who happened at the time of the acci-
dent to be standing in the fire-hole immediately op.
posits the end of the boiler, was exposed to the full
fellow
deal
force of the stream of scalding water, and thrown
down by a mass of falling brickwork. When
ex-
tricatedtobe
fearfully
fromthe
scalded, debi•
thethe
skin all over his body
poor
in-
jured
had suffered chiefly,
peeling off in shreds. He was a go od lure
rubbish
bruisedfound
which had fallen upon him. T
about the upper part of his pershoenby the
o
tlzer persons
if not entirely, from the
scalding effects of the water andihtsftuela:tay
' John
M'Lachlan, a labourer, Was frscalded
all over his body. Andrew Appgar lane, labourer,
was very badly scalded about the
part of his body; and four other arms and upper
labourers, named
Thomas 111.‘Donald, Samuel
Guthrie, Patrick
111‘Donald, and John Cilancer
in-
jured from the same cause. Were more or less
Richmond and ITLachl
the evening. an died in the course of
With regard to the cause of the accident, we have
as yet heard no explanation. The boiler, we under-
stand, is to h
owed to lie in the condition in
which the explo •
sion left it till it shall have been
inspected by a
Herald. properly qualified person.—Glasgow

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BATTLE OF THE STITCHES.—Of the 180
fection to which mechanical science has brought
ud beautiful
many of the conveniences of domestic life, %lliolin,
illustration is furnished in the instance of a sesvtion_hich. for
of Messrs. Wilcox and Gibbs, of Regent-stre w
family use seems quite unrivalled.
ingenious. On©
it is wonderfully simple and yet extremely a alagnce
of its con-
recommendation of this machine is theorel
The m • e 'principle of
room. The
struction, which renders it quite andrawn
drawing
furniture for the parlour or the
thoroughly and beauti-
rtal piece of
machine will stitch a yard of cloth tic,
and
yet it
soon be-
fully fully in 12 seconds. It is like snag
-• of this machine. The
peculiarity
comes as familiar as any ordinary household utensil. Tho
twisted loop stitch is a p
twist strengthens the hold of the thread and produces a
strong and durable seam that will stand any amount of
machine of this sort cannot be
washing or friction.
appears to be what it
done justice
wing. machinepp
to by mereAdescription. When seen at work.
Wilcox and Gibbs' Be
perfection of mechanism realised." We have
frequently "the
hisniachine in use, and can, therefore,
Lreq----"' seen
txperience, and have observed the facility
speak of it from
it is experience,
after a very few words of instruc-
w"h
which
Ci';•cuiar.
tion.—Court
THE BURNING OF KAGOSIMA.--On the first
Tuesday after Parliament meets Mr. Buxton will move the
following resolutions :—"1. That this house views the
burning
of Kagosima by Admiral Kuper with
of the town
deep regret." "2. That the burning of the town was not
justified by the instructions issued to Colonel Neale."
It appears from official returns that the number
of letters transmitted through the French Post 'office in the
year 1861 amounted to 300,000,000, of which 1,820,000 were
money letters, value not declared, and 976,047 letters of
which the declared value was 600,000,000 f. The produce
of the receipts of the Post-otlice during the year 1861 was
66,781,363 f., and the expense 42,748,373 f,, leaving a balance
to the Treasury of 24,032,990 f, The gross receipts of the
French Post-oflice in 1862 rose to 96,906,800 f. The num-
ber of private telegraphic despatches transmitted in 1862
was 1,521,000, and the receipts 5,315,0001.
SHIP DESTROYED BY FIRE.—On the 22d of
October, at 7 p.m., an explosion was seen from St•
Michaels, about nine miles south of Villa Franca, supposed
to be sortie vessel on lite, which had blown up. Part of the
deck, bowsprit, and topmast of a large vessel, also some
o:e
planks of the poop deck, painted whiterti , some of which
burnt, had been washed on shore subsequentlyoll the northw
side of the island, but without any mark to
name of the vessel. id
the
HERR OTTO JAH', already known to the public
by his life of Mozart, is about to undertake a biography 0f
Haydn,