The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-07 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

ladder communication had been cut off, and had to make
a spring for his life. He had no sooner left the building •
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
than it fell with a tremendous crash.
The Infirmary is rapidly filling with the wounded and Betting here to-day was anything but brisk, although
dying. Every attention is paid to the unfortunate crew- I a goodly muster thronged the room.
tures by Mr. Gibbs, the house surgeon. Broken skulls, The Wrexham Handicap, run to-day, claimed the
legs, and thighs, were among the more serious of the ac- i greatest share of attention.
cidents. As we left others were being brought, and al- 1 The only changes we have to notice are in the Cesare-
ready some of the women's wards have been made use 1 witch, for which Muscovite has receded to 8 to 1, and
of. With pleasure we state our hopes that the progress 'La Belle has advanced from 25 to Itol6to 1, taken.
of the fire on the Quay is in a fair way of being arrested. There was very little done on the Cambridgeshire, and
An order has just been issued for 300 men to pull down nothing at all on the Derby.
several rained buildings, and so if possible to cut off the CESAREWITCH STAKES.
communication. 8 to I agst Muscovite (taken)
The reverberation was felt so strongly in Shields . Bto 1 agst D. 0. (taken)
that many of the inhabitants rushed out of their beds, II to 1 agst Rattle (taken)
under the belief that the shock had arisen from an 16 to 1 agst La Belle (taken)
earthquake. Several bricks were dislodged from Messrs. 20 to 1 agst Indian Warrior (taken)
Swinburne's glass-house chimneys, and the workmen 25 to 1 agst Bracken (taken)
ran out in the greatest fright and excitement. The gas. 25 to 1 agst Koh-i-noor (taken)
lights in the Jarrow Paper Mill were blown out. About 30 to 1 agst Rodomeli (taken)
four o'clock a telegraphic message was sent down for the 40 to 1 aunt Lincoln's-inn (taken)
engines, which were sent off after some delay. By five CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
o'clock the powerful river engine was sent away in tow
14 to 1 agst Early Bird (taken)
of a steamer, and by seven o'clock the alarm having 1
20 to 1 agst Orinoco
spread through the town, crowds of people rushed to 1
the railway station to see after their friends The trains
were crowded. The explosion was also felt at Sunder-
land, and the sulphur and other material cast up by the
explosion were scattered three or four miles down the
Gateshead line.
The workmen in Monkwearmouth Colliery, the
deepest in the kingdom, and at least eleven miles from
Newcastle, heard the explosion, and turned out in
alarm.

RICHMOND RACI
ACCEPTANCES for the RICHM

ES—OcT. 18 AND 19.
OND HANDICAP. Once round
listance.

and a

Age at lib
Grapeshot 4 8 7
The Skinner
Trio
Merry Bird 5 6 8
The Vet 4 6 5
Amalgamation
Tros
Seducer 3 5 13
General Breezo 3 5 10

Age st lb,
Billingham
Maid of the Tees 3 5 9
Gamelad
The Spinner
Bianca
The Yore (h b)
Ellermire
Gimcrack

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
NEWCASTLE, Two o'CLocK. P.M.—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 02-
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 deetruction 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 Tenet a hundred yards square, lying between
the Quay and the Butcher Bank, and between Grindon
Chare and the Custom House. The other has rifled
another set of buildings of a similar character, but of less
extent, in a space enclosed by a triangle, the sides of
which are represented by Pilgrim•street, Butcher-bank,
arid George'e-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 1,000,000/. to repair. We are
afraid to approach the as yet undeciileti question of the
extent of the lees 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 incalculable. Under the still flaming ruins of
the Gateshead warehouses, it is cert do 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 found :--
Mr. Davidson, jun., miller, Gateshead.
Mr. Re Bettinson, jun., Gallo.vgate, a member of the
Town Council of Newcastle.

The highest weight accep
has been raised to that we
tion.

)ling being under Bst 71b, it
light, and the rest in propor-

WREXHAM RACES.-FRIDAY.

GOLD CUP.

Whalebone • 1
Maid of Team Valley 2
The Spinner
The following also ran :—Hazelnut, Lancashire Lass,
Prof e.sor Buck.

Betting-2 to 1 apt The Spinner, sto 2 agtt Lanca-
shire Lass, and 3to 1 asst Haznlnut. Won by half a
length, a length between second and third.

PROGRAMME OF NEWMARKET SECOND
OCTOBER MEETING.
MONDAY, OCT. 9.
FIFTY SOVS ; three year olds 7st 7113 ; four, Bst 71b ;
five, six, and aged, 8.4 121 b ; A.F.
FIFTY Sovs, for two year olds ; coats, Bst 71b ;
Sst 51b ; T.Y.C.
A HANDICAP of 20 sows each, and only 5 ft, if declared
by ten o'clock the evening before running, to go to
the second, for three year olds and upwards ; T.Y.C.
A SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each ; two years olds, 6st
71b ; three, Bst 41b ; four, Bst 1211) ; five and upwards,
Oct 21b ; the winner .to be sold for 200 sovs, if de-
manded, &c ; T.Y.C.
The SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sows each, 30 ft, for three year
old fillies ; Bst 71b each ; those by stallions or out of
mares that never produced a winner allowed 31b; if
both 51b ; D.M. ; 6 subs.
Moresca I Apropos (31b) 1 Delia
Lovebird I Miranda 1 Durindana
PRODUCE MATCH, 200, h ft; T.Y.C.— Duke of Bed-
ford': ch c Sik, by Sobraon out of St. Rosalia, Bst lib,
agst Lord Giasgow's ch f by Pyrrhus the First, dam
by Lanercost or Retriever out of Physalis, Set 31b.
MATCH, 150, h ft ; Bst 7111 each ; T.Y.C.—Lord Glas-
gow's f by Pyrrhus the First out of Miss Whip, agst
Mr. Greville s Twitter, sister to Flutter.
MATCH, 500, h fi ; A.F.—Lord Glasgow's Barbatus,
Set 71b, agst Mr. Grcville's Invasion, Bst 11b.
MATCH, 200, h ft ; Set 41b each ; D.M.—Lord Exeter's
Filbert, 4 yrs, agst Mr. Payne's The Trapper, 3 yrs.
MATCH, 200, h ft ; 7 st each ; last three-quarters of Ab.
M.—Mr. Barber's Domino agst Mr. Penning's Hum-
boldt, both 3 yrs.
MaTcu, 100, h ft ; Bst 71b each, D.M.--Duke of Bed-
ford's Diornedia, 4 yrs, agst Mr. Rogers' Exact, 4 yrs.
MATCH, 100, h ft; Bst 71b each ; T.Y.C.—Duke of
Bedford's Pugnator agst Sir J. Hawley's Parchment.
MATCH, 200, h ft ; A.F.—Lord Ciifden's Alembic, Bst
7st, agst Lord Glasgow's ch c by Pantaloon out of
Physaiis, Bst 21b.

Enivi Poynter, lath Cameronians.
Corporal Armstrong, 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 a.nputa-
tion. _ .

A number of others in various places, of whom we
have as yet received no account.
Mr. Harrison, Head of Dean-street, is missing.

Mr. Bertram, of Gatesbead, also missing.
In the hospital of the barracks, no fewer than forty
soldiers are at present under surgical treatment for dif-
ferent and frequently severe injuries.
In the lover 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 ransack the ruins,
or even to approach theta, with the object of preventing
the fire from spreading ; so that the moot dreadful sus-
pense, as well as considerable danger, must coutioue to
exist for sums 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 country 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 we 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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