FATAL EXPLOSION.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3930, 28 March 1870, Page 4

FATAL EXPLOSION.

A luxtvl explosion of gunpowder occurred 'at Brynmawr, a, mining town on the southern border of the oountioa of Brecon and Monmouth, on January 14. It a^peu-a that a lad* named Evan Evans, in the employ Messrs. Thomas Wafckins and Co., wooers, was seat to the warehouse at the paok of their shop to. fetch some goapow Jer. The lad then, it is Bapposed, struck a match for the purpose of lighting the oancije, and in doing ao oansed .tad esplosi9n of three or four CMka, «*ch of which contained «bout

1001b. of powder. He was blown to pieces, and some parts of his body were subsequently found on the housetops at a considerable distance from* the scene of the explosion. A little girl, named Catherine Leek, who was about three year 3 of age, and who was playing near the place at the time, was struck by a stone and killed on the spot Five other persons who were near some walking in the street, and some in their houses, were more or less injured by the concussion and falling of stones and pieces of timber ; one had a leg broken, another his head fractured, and a third a shoulder dislocated. Some of the injured are expected to recover. The damage don- to property is estimated at about £3,000. All the windows of shops and dwelling-houses in several adjoining streets were broken, and walls were blown down and roofs carried away in all parts of the town.