The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RACING FIXT'

AP.
Newmarket Craven l7
Durham
Canterbury Spring
Abergavenny 2O

IRES FOR 1865.

Thirsk 2l
Cardiff 25
Epsom Spring

Salisbury lB
Noah Herta Yeomanry 19
Bath 23
Harpenden 26
Epsom 3O
'vane.

Newmarket Ist Spring 1
Chester 9
York Spring
Salisbury lB
St. Columb l6

Redditch
Chelmsford 7
Manchester Summer 7
Ascot l3
Beverley l4
Liverpool
Alexandra Park 2O

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Worcester
Abingdon
Stamford l3
Winchester lB

Hampton 2l
Newton
Newcastle
Odiham
Bidbury
Stockbridge
29

Nottingham lB
Southampton l9
Chesterfield 2O
Goodwood
Down Royal C0rp........,

AUG

ST.
Brighton 1 York
Brighton Club
Lewes 4 Lichfield 2B
Huntingdon
Wolverhampton
Reading
Egham l5 Baden 3l
Royal Windsor l7 Stockton —
• SEPTEMBER.

Leicester 7
Doncaster
Brecon lB
Richmond

Monmouth 2l
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket Ist Oct 26
Walsall

NOTE)
Livorpool Autumn

MR.
Shrewsbury

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Terrible Fire and Explosion in the Borough,
This Day.

NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERSONS INJURED.

Shortly after ten o'clock this forenoon the premises
of Messrs. Tilleatd and Sons, oilmen, Great Suffolk-street'
Borough, took fire, and a series of explosions of gunpowder
and saltpetre ensued, which resulted in the serious injury
of nearly 100 persons, and the destruction of a large amount
of property.
The premises in which the disaster occurred was one of
two warehouses in the tenure of Messrs. Tillcard and Sons,
wholesale oilmen and drysalters, carrying on business in
Suffolk-street, Borough, within one door of the Winchester
Music Hall.

From the information obtained from personal observa-
tion during the raging of the fearful conflagration, it ap-
pears that Mr. Tilleard, jun., was in the cellar pumping up
some Benzone oil. Mr. Tilleard, his wife, the servant. and
three other persons being in different upper rooms. All of
a sudden a cry of "Fire" was raised, when Mr. Tilleard
and his wife made an attempt to descend by the
staircase, but were mot by fumes of burning
sulphur and oils which prevented them from descending,
and as a deride. ressort Mr. Tilleard pulled his wife into
one of the front rooms, and having closed the door, he
opened the window, and a ladder being in readiness, Police-
constable McConnell, No. 35 M, and a young man named
Cotterell, living in the Southwark-bridge-road, were car-
, lying her down, when a fearful explosion, which shook
every house in the vicinity to their foundations, and blew
Mrs. Tilleard, the police-constable, and his assistant off the
ladder—the first named falling violently upon her head.
Such a scene which immediately ensued could scarcely
be described with accuracy, but it may bo stated
that four or five other explosions of greater violence
than the first took place, when the roof of the entire building
was lifted high into the air. Heavy beams of timber were
sent across Suffolk-street, and in their course demolished
the skylights and a portion of the roof of the Winchester
Music Hall, and falling upon one of the great ornamental
lamps in the Southwark-bridge-road, demolished it, and
prostrated Mr. Ressitor, a gentleman connected with the
Southwark Water Company, who was giving instructions
to Favor, one of the turncocks. Both these persons were
thrown upon the ground, and a shower of slates followed,
which forced in some of the windows of the opposite public
house in Suffolk-street, and the embers were driven into
Ann's-court and York-place, which so frightened the in-
mates that they rushed out into the open road in a state
bordering upon frenzy. These persons had barely gained
the street when a fifth explosion took place, which so
frightened the horses in passing vehicles, and those taken
out of the engines which now began to arrive, that they
started off in all directions, plunging in a fearful manner
amongst men, women, and children.

By this time Mr. Superintendent Branford and Inspectors
Manson and Wise had arrived, with a powerful body of
the M division of police, and Acting-Inspector Pearce
came up with a strong detachment of the detective force,
and they at once barricaded the whole of the approaches to
the scene of conflagration, so as to keep a space clear for
the engines to get near. _

In the course of a few minutes the brigade engines with
the land steamers, by Shand, Mason, and Co., the latter
under the command of Mr. Hedgman, one of the members
of the firm ; the land steamers from Hodges's distillery, at
Lambeth, and one belonging to the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company, under the personal direction of
Mr. Saunders, the superintendent of the Blackfriars-road
Station, came up, and plenty of the Lambeth and South-
wark Company's water having been procured, all hands
went to work in their usual intrepid manner, but in spite
of the great streams of water thrown upon the flames, they
continued to spread, and every part of the great warehouse
presented one broad sheet of flame, and another explosion
supervening several persons were struck about various
parts of the body and terribly cut and injured. Mr. Isaac
Brittain, the proprietor of the Ship, Stones-end, Borough,
was knocked down, and was removed to the house of Mr.
Barnes, the Old Justice Tavern, in the Southwark Bridge-
road, where he was attended to by a surgeon.
Dr. Donahoo, of the Westminster-road, and several other
medical gentlemen, were sent for to attend to the various
persons injured ; amongst the numbor was Mr. Gilleard
himself, who was much burnt about the hands. A gentle-
man named Wilson, residing in the London-road, in pro-
ceeding along the street was knocked down by a horse that
was frightened by the explosion, and upon removing him
to the hospital it was found that his leg was broken.
The firemen of the Brigade, under Head-Engineer Med-
calfe, and the Surrey Volunteers, by one o'clock had the
satisfaction of finding that they had succeeded in getting
the fire extinguished, but the warehouse of Mr. Gilleard,
in which the disaster commenced, may be termed totally
destroyed, for the front and back walls are so shaken by
the force of the explosions, that the upper portions are
some feet out of the perpendicular, and consequently must
be pulled down. Respecting the origin of the fire nothing
at present can be learned. In the cellar were two flour
casks filled with saltpetre ; and whether in pumping up
the Benzoine oil it became ignited and fired the saltpetre
it is impossible to tell. The exact number of persons in-
jured must take some time to learn.