The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

FALL OF A WAREHOUSE AND IRON FOUNDRY,

An 'accident of a fearful character took place about 10
minutes after six o'clock on Saturday evening. last. It ap-
pears that at the extreme end of Bankside, in the narrowest
part, is a thoroughfare leading to St. Mary Overy's dock,
and nearly facing Barclay and Perkins's brewery a range of
buildings used as wharfs and warehouses for sundry pur-
poses, among which were the extensive premises known as
the Bank End Wharf, the property of Messrs. Archer and
Sons, millers and wharfingers, and the premises known as
the landing wharf and iron foundry belonging to Mr.
Stephen Carey and Co. The first-named building was
erected as long since as the time of Queen Elizabeth, and
rested against the eastern wall of the foundry of Messrs.
Carey. The first-named contained many hundred quarters
of corn in sacks, the weight of which, no doubt, was the
primary cause of the accident ; for all of a sudden the per-
sons employed in Messrs. Carey's works noticed the wall
that separated the two wharfs bulging, which induced them
to give information to the proper parties. Fortunately, the
workmen, 18 in number, left the wharf two hours sooner
than they did the preceding day. The whole length of the
western wall shot out, causing the roof to part in three
places, carrying with it about one-third of Messrs. Carey's
foundry. As soon as the confusion had somewhat abated,
it was found that the warehouse belonging to Messrs.
Archer and Son had fallen, and the whole of the grain con-
tained therein been buried in the fragments. One-third of
the roof of Messrs. Carey's foundry was also levelled with
the .ground. During this day an attempt will be made to
get out the grain which remains buried in the ruins, and
also to shore up the dangerous walls.
ANOTHER FALL OF BUILDINGS IN KENTISH
TowN.—Yesterday morning, shortly after 10 o'clock,
another portion of the same pile of buildings which fell on
Thursday last suddenly came down. This result will afford
matter for serious investigation by the officials of the
Metropolitan Board of Works, who had already ordered an
investigation into the previous occurrence. The buildings
in question consisted of a clump of three or four houses,
forming the commencement of a new street, to be called
Gaisford_street, and it will be remembered in the account
already given of the previous fall it was stated that the
stacks of chimneys first fell, carrying with them the upper
portions of the party walls of the two adjoining houses.
This fall took place in an easterly direction. On the west-
ern side still existed another party wall, on the summit of
which remained another high and double stack of chimneys,
and still further to the west was the flank wall or gable end
of the newly-erected row of houses, the whole being sur-
rounded by scaffolding. By practical men in this flank
wall a great deal of what is termed " buckling" or "bulg-
ing' has been observed, and at the time mentioned yester-
day the upper part of this flank wall fell outward in the
direction of the Kentish-town-road with a tremendous
crash, carrying with it the scaffold-poles, &c., or breaking
them short off where it came in contact with him. The
buildings present a singular and dangerous appearance, the
double stack of chimneys standing alone in the centre, al-
though evidently, even to the most unpractised eye, some
considerable eittent.out of the perpendicular,