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NYM(G.773.022
25 Jan 1773:23 (1109)
Liverpool, Nov.15. Extract of a letter from Chester,
November 10. On Thursday night last, the 5th instant, the
inhabitants of this city were thrown into the utmost
consternation by an instantaneous shock. . . The preceding
day a quantity of gunpowder, upwards of eight hundred pounds
weight, had been deposited in a ware-house in Watergate-
street, under a building, known by the name of Eaton's Room,
in which one 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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