The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-17 00:00:00

SERIOUS DAMAGE TO THE METROPOLITAN

RAILWAY.

About twelve o'clock on Sunday much alarm
was caused by a sudden sinking of the earth in
Victoria-street, close by the present termination
of the new battering wall now being erected, for
the purposes of the Metropolitan Railway, on the
eastern side of the street This • sinking was im-
mediately followed by a flow of water into the
side of the cutting and the low lying ground and
adjoining alleys and streets, flooding a considerable
portion of the works of the railway on the one
hand, and submerging a large space of ground on
the other. More than 30 feet of the roadway fell
in in the first instance, and the sewer—the re-

n owned "black ditch,"theFleet—being water-logged
at the time from the heavystorm-water of the upland
districts, and the tide not long before having been
exceedingly strong, the brickwork gave way, and
thus caused the catastrophe.
Several of the basements of small tenements were
instantly flooded by the rush of water, and amongst
them those of Mr. Richardson, of the Coach and
Horses publichouse, Mr. Warkley, baker, and other
rowi.no Ray-street : all these small holdings
being situate closely contiguous to the ancient bed
of the Fleet-ditch, and built long before it was
turned into the present channel under Victoria-
street. But it is to the works of the Metropolitan
Railway that most damage has been done, it being
estimated, proximately, after as full an inspection
as could be obtained yesterday, that it will require
a considerable sum to make good the disaster, the
rush of water having retarded the works at one of
the most important parts of the line, and flooded
the whole of that portion lying between the work-
house in Coppice-row and the Sessions-house,
Clerkenwell-grecu.

It being Sunday when the accident happened bnt
few of the navvies were at work, but instant infor-
mation having been sent of the bursting of the
sewer to the foreman and Messrs. Jay, 'the con-
tractors, a large body of men were shortly on the
spot. Their first step was to set going the steam
engine attached to the hydraulic pump, and to
puddle round the whole of the sewer, other men
being employed in raising barricades to prevent the
too eager intrusion of the public. So soon as it was
possible the pump was set to work to raise the
mater from the line and the submerged properties,
though but little progress was made until last even-
ing at a late hour, when no further danger was ap-
prehended.

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