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SCGCJ.773.009
19 Jan 1773:22 (373)
London, November 10. Extract of a letter from Chester,
November 6. Yesterday being the anniversary commemoration
of the Gun-Powder plot, a great number of people of both
sexes, men, women, and children, went in the evening to see
George William's puppet-show, exhibited at a place called
Eaton's Dancing-Room, in Watergate-Street: It unfortunately
happened that a neighnouring grocer had within a few days
before lodged a quantity of gunpowder in a cellar under the
show-room, which proved the cause of the most dreadful
catastrophe ever known in these parts: For, between eight
and nine o'clock the powder took fire (how or by what
accident, is not yet ascertained) and blew up the floor, a
room over it, and the roof;
. . . [Results of the explosion described]
The number of the dead (among whom are Williams the show-
man, his wife, and child of about three or four years old, .
. . ) are computed at forty, . . .
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