The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-10 00:00:00

THE KILLED AND WOUIVDED

, OFFICERS.

The Earl of Listowel's son, Lord Ennismore, of tile
Fusilier Guards,• is- reported as wounded severely, and
the earl's brother, Capt. the Hon. C. Hare, of the 7th
FusilierP, has met with a similar casualty. Capt. the
Hon. Win. Monck, also of the Fusiliers (brother of
Viscount Monck, M.P. for Portsmouth), who was killed
at the head of his company, was a great favourite in the
7th, and will be deeply regretted. Lieut. the Hon. C.
Crofton, of the same regiment, who was wounded, is
eldest son of Lord Crofton, and grandson to the late
Lord Anglesey. He was pace of honour to her Ma-
jesty before his entrance into the army about a year ago.
In the 231 Fusiliers, Captain Arthur William Wynn,
who lost his life in the conflict, was cousin of Sir Wat-
kyo Williams Wynn, Bart., M.P., and son of the late
Right Hon. C. W. Wynn. Sir William Young, of the
23,1, who was also among the. killed, was the lineal de-
scendant of Sir John Young, who accompanied Mary
Queen. of Scots, as her Chamberlain, on her return froin
France to Scotland, in 1561. He was just 21 years of
age, had been about four years in the service, and was
married only a few weeks before his embarkation for
the seat of war.
Lord Chewton is wounded. He is the eldest son of
the Earl of Waldegrave, and is a captain in the Scots
Fusilier Guards. Lieutenant the Hon. H. Annesley
of the same regiment, is a younger brother of Lord
Annesley. Captain Horace Cust, of the Coldstream
Guards, is the only officer of the Household Brigade
who fell. • He was a cousin of the young Earl Brown-
low. Amongst the wounded is the Earl of Errol, who is,
in virtue of his office of high constable, the first subject
in Scotland after the blood royal. Two members of Par-
liament had narrow escapes—Sir De Lacy Evans having
received a severe contusion- in the right shoulder, and
Col. the Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert one in the back'
of the neck. The former gallant officer, as is well known,
represents Westminster; the latter, Ludlow.

TJ3E GREAT CONFLAGRATION IN
NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD.

NE WCASTLE•ON-TYNE -MONDAY AFTERNOON.

The worst is over now, it is hoped, and the police,,
military, and firemen are seeking a little rest after three
nights' arduous toil and danger. The immense mass of
burning ruins in Gateshead continued to smoulder dur-
ing the whole of Saturday night and yesterday, and
called for the most watchful attention from the authori-
ties, who kept pouring copious volumes of water upon
them from the river engines. Yesterday afternoon, the
wind having changed, blowing the mass of sulphurous
smoke from Gateshdad towards the river, a large gang
of labourers were employed to remove the heap of rub-
bish which choked up the east and west end of Hillgate,
under which •it was thought the bodies of several of the
unfortunate persons_that are missing were covered up.
At the far or east end no bodies had last night been
found, but at the end next the bridge the excavators ex-
perienced a melancholy success. In the course of the
day the bodies of the following were discovered :
Mr. Alexander Dobson, jun., architect, of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, son of Mr. 'John Dobson, architect.
Mr. Thomas
.Sliarp, 13, Suminerhill-terrace, New-
castle, aged 27.

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Mr. Martin Hall, fireman, Gallowgate, Newcastle,
aged 52.
Mr. Moseley, shackle maker, Oakwellgate, aged 27.
Two more bodies had been partially uncovered last
night, when the workmen were driven back by the
sulphurous vapour, and farther operations were deferred
till the morning. The whole of the above bodies were
found within half a dozen yards of each other, Mr.
Mosely being found first, Mr. Dobson,. second, Mr.
Sharp third, and Mr. Hall last, and removed to the
Gateshead Police-station, whence the whole of them,
with the exception of that of Mr. Hall, had been re-
moved last night. Mr. Moseley was the least injured,
and, save a blow received on the right side of the
head, might have been taken to have died from hav-
ing been buribd in the ruins. The other three bodies,
which had been fearfully burnt, were altogether un-
distinguishable by appearance. Mr. Dobson must have
remained unidentified but for a bunch of keys in his
pocket, and from a little portion of his dress having
been preserved between the inner bend of the knee
joint. Mr. Sharp, a gentlemen of independent cir-
cumstances, was identified by his watch dangling
down, which corresponded with the description left
by his friends, and by the clothes upon his bosom
having been thick, so that traces of his red braces
and the bosom of his fancy shirt were recognised
beneath ; in other respects his body could not be
known for the remains of a human being, save by a
skull being attached to it, there being neither futures,
legs, nor arms to be seen, and the trunk being a shape-
less mass. The body of Hall, as had also been that of
Mr. Dobson, was aimost equally undistinguishable. He
was one of the missing filerneu of the North British
Brigade, and was identified by his son, who had pre-
viously been dug out near the same place, shortly after
the explosion, alive, bytho remains of his thick fireman's
clothing. The remaining descriptions of persons missing
left at the Gateshead Police-court are those only of a
young man and a young woman named Wigham ; but it
is not unlikely that a doze❑ or a score of families may
yet be found, unknown, with nobody left to inquire
after them.

The workmen have commenced again this morning,
but up to noon had discovered no more bodies. Yester-
day an immense number of people from the surrounding
countryside flocked into the town, crowding every part
whence a prospect of the scene of the disaster could be
viewed, but fortunately, by the excellent arrangement of
the military—cavalry and infantry—who formed a cordon
round the whole of the district, erecting barricadesi and
placing sentries at every entrance leading to where the
tire occurred, not the slightest accident happened. The
military have turned the Guildhall in Newcastle, the
police station, and other,buildings into temporary guard
houses, and are of the greatest'service to the authorities
of the, town, who are thus enabled to direct their atten-
tion to the total extinction of the fire, and the recovery
of those still missing.