The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-08 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS,

NEWCASTLE, Twoo76l:oCi---1.11:1- Already the ma-
jority of the inhabitants of Newcastle and Gateshead
have made themselves acquainted with the general fea-
tures of the terrible disaster which has befallen these two
towns, by personal observations from some point of view
or other. On the memorable Morning of the 6th of Oz-
tober, on the two sides of Tyno Bridge three fires were
simultaneously raging, each of them of a magnitude far
transcending anything of the kind that has ever, per-
haps, occurred in this town before, and at least one of
them involving a destruction of property that probably
exceeds any that has for many years been caused in any
city or town of this country. As detailed above, the
first, and the producer of others, occurred on the
river edge at Gateshead, and extended 200 yards,
destroying in its course large and well-stocked
warehouses. In Newcastle the greater of the two
fires has burned down a mass of closely packed build-
ings of at least a hundred yards square, lying between
the Quay and the Butcher Bank, and between Geinden
Chare and the Custom House. The other ha, rifled
another set of buildings of a similar character, but of less
extent, in a space enclosed by ;e triangle, the sides of
which are represented by Pilgrim-street, Butcher-bank,
and George':--stairs.
Taken together, the fires, falling as they have chiefly
upon the busiest part of the town, have inflicted an
amount of loss that it will -require, at the most mode-.
rate calculation, at least 1,000,0001. to repair. We are
afraid to approach the as yet undecided question of the
extent of the loss of life, but already we fear that the
deaths discovered amount to nearly a score, while the
amount of serious bodily injury that has been caused is
almost incalcula'ile. Unuer the still flaming ruins of
,the Gateshead warehou,es, it is certain that there are
some, it is possible there are very many, poor fellows
lying as blackened corpses. The following is a list, as
full as can be at present obtained, of the bodies which
have been foiled :

•
Mr. Davidson, jun., miller, Gateshead.
Mr, R. Pattinson, jun., Gallowgate, a member of the
Town CouncA of Newcastle.

Asian Paynter, 26th Caineranians.
Corporal Arm,trong, ditto.
Corporal Hamilton, hairdresser, Gateshead.
Corporal Scott, of the Gateshead Police Force.
Four other bodies, names unknown, apparently
,workmen.

A. female has died in the Infirmary, after an amputa-
tion.

A number of others in various paces, of whom we
have as yet received no acc,)unt.

Mr. Harrison, Head of Dean-street, is missing.

Mr. Bertram, of Gateshead, also missing.

In the hospital of the barracks, no fewer than forty
soldiers are at present under surgical treatment fur dif-
ferent and frequently severe injuries.
In the lower part of Gateshead it is almost impossible
to make way through the street, so overpowering is
the vapour of burning sulphur ; and this effectually pre-
vents, for the present, any attempt to ransa4i the rums,
or even to approach them, with the object of preventing
the fire from spreading ; so that the most dreadful sus-
pense, as well as considerable danger, must continue to
exist for some time, unless some plan can be hit upon to
neutralise the effects of the fume with which the air is
impregnated.
No death has, so far as we are aware, resulted di-
rectly from the fire ; the entire of the fearful list of mor-
tality being attributable to the tremendous explosion in
Mr. Bertram's bond warehouse. In this ciuntry the
only parallels to this explosion are to be looked for in
the depths of the most firy of our coal pits ; and even
there we doubt if wo can point to an occurrence so ex-
tremely disastrous as this has been. It now appears
more than probable that future investigation will elicit
the fact that it is to gunpowder rather than to any for-
tuitous generation of gases from sulphur and nitrates
that the great calamity is due ; but in the meantime,
nothing positive is known. Of course, a few days will
bring the truth to light.
(, • At present the fire on the Quayside, where Alone it

may now be considered immediately dangerous, is in a
great measure circumscribed, and will in all probability
be prevented from extending.

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