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VGW(HU.773.002
7 Jan 1773:23 (1119)
Liverpool. November 13. 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, supposed at first
to have been occasioned by the violence of an earthquake, .
. . It was not long, however, before the real cause was
known; . . .The preceding day a quantity of gunpowder,
upwards of eight hundred pound weight, had been deposited in
a warehouse 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 . . .
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; . . . [29 lines]
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