The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-21
DISASTER.
Fall Of n Building in Wilmington Narrow
Escnne of tho lnmntes.

Escape of the Inmates.
From the Wilmington Commercial Of Saturday.
At about 10 o'clock this morning the rear pOr-
ton of the four story brick store and dwelling at
No 2l2 Market street fell to the ground. The
building was recently purchased by Capellc "
Brother, No. PA (next door, and they had
stored considerable amount of stock in the
store and cellar. They were building an exten-
sive addition to the rear of 1t, intending to run
the store through to King street. The walls were
being undermined and underpinned TO allow of
the building of more substantial foundations,
and this was the cause of the accident.
A colored porter named Perry Trusty, en-
ployed by Capelle & Bro, with his family, con-
sisting of his wife and three children, one an
infant, were living in part of the house. Perry
was in the hardware store at work when he
heard the adjoining building begin to crack.
With an exclamation of terror he rushed to the
front of the store, and then back along the long
hall of the falling building, and up stairs to his
family. He caught up the baby from the bed,
called to his wife to run with the children,
and rapidly followed her down stairs His foot
had scarcely left the stairway when it fell with
a crash to the ground, and as the family ran
through the entry to the street, the part of the
building which they had just left fell into q
shapeless wreck and ruin behind them. One of
the Cnpelle brothers also just escaped from the
building in time, and no one was hurt We have
seldom been called to chronicle u more narrow
escape than that of the heroic Perry and his
family.
The fall has, of course, rendered much more
extensive building operations necessary, and the
loss by the accident will be over $500.
Terrible Explosion mt BingIey, England.
The London Times of the 10th inst. contains
the following heart-rending account of a boiler
explosion, which was attended with consider
able loss of lfe;-
\ very disastrous boiler explosion, supposed
to have resulted in the death of not fewer than
twenty adults and children, occurred yesterday
morning at the works of Messrs. Town IL Son,
bobbin turner's, at Bingley, between Bradford
and Keighley. The workshop of Messrs. Town
was situate on the north bank of the Leeds
and Liverpool Canal and in the rear of the
National School, Park road, the two buildings
being separated by the playground of the school.
The premises of Messrs. Town consisted of q large
workshop about fifteen yards long by fifteen in
width, and two stories in height, boiler and en-
gine-house and offices. The boiler-houses stood
between the workshop and offices, and over the
latter were two rooms occupied as a dwelling by
Mr. j. Town, Jr. The explosion occurred about
ten o'clock yesterday morning. The boiler was
lifted from its base into the air and fell q
shapeless mass about forty yards off.
The works and cottages were levelled
with the ground, large. stones being hurled
long distances. Workmen who were on the
building, persons in the cottages and scholars in
the playground of the National School were in
stantly overwhelmed and buried beneath the
ruins. A great number of willing hands imme-
diately engaged in the task of dsinterring those
who had been so summarly buried in the ruins,
and yesterday afternoon the result was reported
as folows:-
DEAD.-Mr. Town, Jr., two children of Mr..
Joseph Midgley, Park road, manufacturer; a
child of Mr.. Timothy Lister, Park road; two
children of Mr.. Naylor, grocer Ferrand lane;
William Thompson and William Tindall, work
men of Messrs. Town, and child of Mr.. Thomas
Wright saddler.
INJURED.-Mr. Town, Sr., and also Mrs.
Town, Jr., and Henry Town, son of the latter,
both of whom are not likely to recover Also
three wOrkmen viz, Joseph Murgatroyd Hope
street, Keighley; Thomas Smith, Keighley; and
Sharp Butterfied Framclitfe, Bingley.