TERRIBLE GAS EXPLOSION.

Evening Star, Issue 5610, 2 March 1881, Page 4

TERRIBLE GAS EXPLOSION.

A terrible explosion occurred :'n Glasgow while a number of families were celebrating the New Year. A large quantity of gas, which is supposed to have come from a broken main pipe, having accumulated underneath the flooring of the ground flat of a house in Henderson street, a comparatively new district in the north-west quarter, William M'Culloch, an occupant of one of the houses, obtained the assistance of two police constables and a neighbor named Hugh Reid, a gasfitter, to boo where the escape was. While they were thus employed the gas ignited, and there was a tremendous ex-

plosion, followed by two Blighter ones. The bodies of William M'Culloch and Hugh Reid was soon found amongst the ruins, but life was extinct. The mother of Hugh Reid, who had come frem Kilmarnock to visit her son, Was afterwards found and removed to a neighbor's house ; but she afterwards died. Reid's little girl, Jennie, aged four years, was carried out and taken to the Western Infirmary, and she died in the afternoon; while his wife, who was only found after she had been embedded in the ruins for nearly eight hours, died the same evening, making in all five deaths. The houses are so shaken and torn that they hare had to be propped up, and upwards of twenty families have been made houseless, no fewer than eight having lost nearly all their furniture besides. { Overland Mail,' January 14.