The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-17 00:00:00

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ADDITIONAL PAIII'IaT/CAKS•

\Ve stated vesteiday, that another
belonging to Mr. Constadt (whom we are now
assure d has MI partner), adjoil,7 tg the concern.
which has been destroyed by exHosiOn, badl:en
stripped of t'‘e partv=wall, and in a falling
condition. Ab.nr 11 ,o'clock last night, how-
rycv, the ruins of the former plac.- being so far
removed as to permit an e:fusion c flame, the fire
vhich had caught the works of the engine and
boiler, machinery, and which till then had been
smothered, burst forth with irresistible fury.
The timbers and other inflamnriblo
F rewed about the, ruins, immediately canght fire,
and communicatinir to the different Rows of the
building, the, whole was shortly enveloped in
flat-nes It would be impossible to describe the
toging fury of the element ; and not withs:A.loling
.tintely—Al-eiral of nearly 20 engines, which
continued to play throughout the night, the
building was totally demolished;—the interior
-
falling into a condensed heap of ashes upon 'the
ruins of the first house, leaving only a few and
tottering fragments of the
In this additional calamity, we are happy to
-state that no lives have been lost, nor any person
iujnred. The adjoining houses and neighbour-
hood have oscaped injury, and the effects of the
explosion of . water, sugar,- &c. from the boiler
and pans, dashed upon the adjacent buildings, and
suffused. thickly upon the trees in Wellelose:-
square, are
,the only additional circumstances
worth observation.
We learn, that six human beings perished in
the dreadful casualty recorded yesterday. It has
tio+,'• been ascertained, that twenty-One persons
were employed in the concern at the time ; nine
of tlieiie tt ere. taken frotn thence ins lacerated
stale, six have been recognized as having escaped,
and'SiX consequently, it is concluded, 'have been
suffocated. The bodies of three, only,NaVe been
discovered ; the two that were tipposed to have
been
,got out of the ruins last niJit were not
reached, in consequence of the immense liap of
rubbish to'be removed, and the 'awful interrup-
tion of the fire.

It appears, also, that bcside3 the extrlordinary
piteap.e of Mr. Constadt and Mr. Hague, the'engi-
neer,. who were itetttailv beneath the machinery
at thy moment of the explolion, Spear, of
Broad-street, and father of the young genikman
who perished; was within a few yards of the en-
gine, on the lower 'floor, and hearing the. explo-
sion, Val) towards *a window, from which he was
shortly di'agged by a gentleman in the neighbour-
hood, -of whOni he instantly inquired 'the fate of

his son.
CORONER'S INQUEST ON TIIE BODIES.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition was taken at I
the Star Tavern, li.efore(T thIAVIS7, E(l,, Coroner,
'Ton the bodies_ot.., Mr. Arthur. G. Spear, aged
15, il:;bert Laing, Bligh, who met
their death by explosion and suffocation, on
Wedne•day morning, in the'ptemises of Mr. Con-
stadt, reet, Wellelose-square..
.
,Peter Leiol.deposed, that he was a Frenchman,
and. was employed. as a labouree in• the sugar bake,
Innises .of Mr. Constadt. He remembers the
luotuing of the accident.; went to work as usual
between three and fair .o'clock, when the files
were first lighted.,Mr. liague the engineer; came
rlsO that tninning some time before the explosion
took place., ThA boiler was determined' to be.
tried,.
.and large fires were ordured. Mr. Con-
stadt vas also there, and he believes objected to
the trial as well as the fires. Knew the de-
ceased Robert Long, who Was the principal
person making the great fire : two men were sup-
plying Mini with fuel, and he was liesiping it on..
I-Ie ryas remonstrated witbabout so, dangerous an
experiment as thatOl'inereasinglhe,lieat of the fire,
and witness himself noticed an-alarming. rise in
the 'thermancter ;' the deceased hoWever perse,
ecr"ed, anti about half-past ten o'clock the explo-
sion took place, and the deceased, Robert Laing,
tS buried in the ruins. Wittn.,s3 was of opinion,
that.the explo,ion -was occasioned by too great'a
body of heat, and tlie.pressure or overloading of,
We'. safety valves.' Witness knew the deceased Mr.
Spear, who was a few minutes previous to the
explosion in the Cld Counting-liaise, and whose
body was found about half-past four in the after-
no6a. . new the deceased Bligh also. He was
at 1;-(bonrer, and had a wife and three children.
J. (tome, a clerk in the house of Mr. H. A.
13r0,n1-strect,, deposed,, that be', knows
IV.. L. 11.'Constadt, whom he believes to he the
proprietor of the concern in Nell-street.
Knew the de eared itlr. Syear.,. Ile was the son
of his employer, and was in the premises of Mr.
Constadt on the day of the accident, merely as an
agent'to his"Tather, who had sent in a great quail-
tityof Sugar to, be manufactured: 'rite deceased
was hut tirteiin vesrs of agtt, in October last. Wit-
mis:hearingAif-the accident, went to the pre-
about etere'n -o'clock, and remained there
all (illy. About four in. the afternoon, saw the
body. of Air. Spears taken out, but no life what-
reni'ained. . His arinS were broken, his,body.
burnesl, and bisface blackened from soffocation..
Alexander, C;ilts,On :-the employtnettt of
BleSsts.llagne and •Topliani,- the engineers. He
ids° had heat d of the- a`ccidentk 'and went.
to the. premises, whine' lie endeavoured,
by-working-with a nnmbee of nth erS, ti). extricate
liis fell OW-workmen, ad:Laeng,efrinn the
reins. In: this •.talc. they were' employed. from
we 1,0,. to , when: he perceived Laing-,,
rand soon i))*!,11, heiileath
Ii TS alit)111-
del'. The fintaner a S 11-15 head
open, and piece of tiinher I,Ntged:itc:the bruin.
hey %vet:. itt cot r;.,e trot-11 dead.,,
David Coman \vas employed 1T bite- Foimern ;
w.is there Prev:ivoils to rite aehident OW:Wednesday
twirti,ing ; reniernb Mr..lrlagnc,.,: the engineer,
being there J.. and also ;Ir.-Codsm(4 having ob.,
jected t0..t10,,, trial of the boiler, tg -sying it
would clo,no good, and earlt the morning de-
sired tile fire not to. be: lighted. A person:punier'
however,' one (it 1-,...1.-Ligue's men, re-
eltargeJ the pans, and the eY.plosion took PlAce
by ball past ten .
This tens all the evidence add4fed
roverbaving briefly :tddrti;ettltir..l-nrif, obierVed;
that in order to detct..nine upon any other VCldiCt