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BPB.773.008
8 Feb 1773:23 (807)
Liverpool, Nov. 15. Extract of a letter from Chester,
November 10. The preceding day a quantity of gun powder,
upwards of eight hundred pounds weight, had been deposited
in a ware-house in [ ], under a building known by the name
of Eaton's Room, in which [ ] Williams, the master of a
puppet show, had for some time past exhibited his
performances. The company which these idle amusements had
drawn together on the fatal evening was very great (may such
another evening never be known any where) and in the midst
of their merriment, the powder, by what accident is not
known, took fire, and in a moment most of the unhappy people
were buried under a prodigious heap of ruins. . .
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