Remains at Gateshead - Site of the Explosion, 1854. View of '...the Ruins of the Bonded St. Mary's Church in the background: the white smoke shows the effect of the burning [the] fire broke out in the worsted manufactory of Messrs. Wilson and heat became so intense that it melted the sulphur which had been stored in an It came out in torrents, like streams of lava; and, as it met the external air, began to blaze: its combustion illumining the river and its shipping, the the immediate another bonded ware
Remains at Gateshead - Site of the Explosion, 1854. View of '...the Ruins of the Bonded St. Mary's Church in the background: the white smoke shows the effect of the burning [the] fire broke out in the worsted manufactory of Messrs. Wilson and heat became so intense that it melted the sulphur which had been stored in an It came out in torrents, like streams of lava; and, as it met the external air, began to blaze: its combustion illumining the river and its shipping, the the immediate another bonded warehouse, filled with the most combustible materials - naphtha, nitrate of soda, and potash, as well as immense quantities of tallow and sulphur; and it is also said that a large quantity of gunpowder was contained in [the explosion] made Newcastle and Gateshead shake to their foundations'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.
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