Star.
London, England, 1817-10-08 00:00:00

EXPLOSION OF 41 POWDER MILL.

Ainut mime minutes before seven in the morning
FlidAy Litt, tie corning house of the gunpowder
nok, , b.longing to JO UN HALL, Esq. at Ore. near
Faversham, containing about 12 barrels of powder,
ilew• up with .a tremendous explosion, levelling in-
gantly every part of the building to its foundation,
Ind spreading the many timbers in every direction.
kt the moment of the explosion there were three men
mployed therein, whose bodies were literally blown
D piccrg, and the scattered fragments of their limbs
Wad at considerable distance. from the spot, in a
late so mutilated as to defy the power of recognition.
rheie names were, Thomas Wanstall, aged eighteen
;ears; J.hn Robinson, forty-five; and James Phil-
ott, twenty-four, the latter has left a wile and child
E-w.ol his late. Had the accident happened ten
lr twelve minutes sooner, its consequences would have
►een more fatal, as Mr. Johnson, the overseer of the
mks, and five other persons, were in attendance at
he hulloing, removing ten b.arrels of powder. The
INA' and mill of Mr. ASUILNDIN, at Ore, received a
ewe shock from the concuasion of the explosion, and

d most art the windows broken ; the windows of
ret.4l other houses at Ore, were also partially frac-
red ; and the effect was also extended to Faversham,
pilthough a suite dist•int, where the windows of sere.
ral houses wete similarly injured. The sound of the
txplosii,n was beard in Use direction of the wind, which ,
stas easterly, for nearly ten miles. The last accident
Df this nature in' the vicinity of Faversham, was on
the 16th January. 1810, when the corning house, Nb.
I, of the Royal Powder Works exploded, killing
wren men and four horses.

Friday, as the Ramsgate coach was entering Dover,'
ar the Three Porters public•honse, in St. James's-
et, the coach being heavily loaded, was unluckily
erturned, whi n a lady, one of the outside passers
rs, unfortunately had her ribs broken.
The son of a labourer, named Ingram, at Carlby
dge, near Stamford, was poisoned on Wednesday
y rating the berries of the nightshade, which the
y mistook for plums; and he lies, in consequence,
ith little hopes of recovery.
A poor. woman of the name of Jennings, residing
%It berhubband and family in one of the small cot
ges off the Edgeware road, opposite sq Cern/te-
rcet. hiving a sick child, went to an. apothecary's
'up in the neighbourhood for advice and medicine,
here she received a bottle of some kind of stuff, two
as full of whiCh she was ,rdered to give the child.
her return she administered the medicine as or-
wed, and likewise gave a spoonful of time same mix-
ture to a child she had to nurse, the consequence was,
at both the children died in less than an hour after-
ds. The bodies have been opened, and the su-
ltan is of opinion they were poisoned.
Sanuday last. Pet.* Lanyon, dim Old Dot, an old
titan, who was in the habit of fishing on the rocks
near Monsehole, was washed off by a heavy sea and

A drenkes woman at Paris, who laid a wager that
oh could swim across the Woe, perished is the at-
tempt on Saturday last near the Pent-Nny.
An Inquisition was taken yesterday before Hulas-
Lewis, Esq. Coroner, at the Bear, in Bear-street,
Leicester-square, on the body of Thomas, son of Mr.
Richards, et Cecil-court, St. Martin's.lane, who was I
burned to death on Monday last. He was about two I
years of age. He and another child were playing
by the five, ao person being with them in the room,
"ken the deceased's clothes caught firer-Verdict—
Accidental Death.

Between three and four n'clock on Saturday morn-
in, an alarming fire broke out in the dwelling-house
t Mr. ROSENT HANFORD, frame-smith; top of the
Battomstreet, Tewkesbury, which raged with such
fury that the whole of the interior, as well as the fur-
niture, was completely destroyed, before the names
'Quid be subdued ; and had it not been fur the timely
and spresuous exertions of the inhabitants, who
Promptly arrived with several fire-engines; the White
Lion and King's Head Inns, with several other boil-
Cgs, must inevitably hive been destroyed. We
lortent to say, that the mother-in-law of Mr. Hen.
Into, in her 115th ye.J, perished in the -flames; audit
its only uy et.capitit.; throtigh the windows that the
aunt females of Ow family were saved. The cause
W the contigration has au; been clearly ascertained;
kat .s supposNl d.nt the 4.lllwty caught fire in the
evet:nog, and did nut inns: Lin tit during so long a pt-
lied afterwards.

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