Dreadful news from Limerick being an account of the magazine of powder taking fire the 12th of this instant February, 1694, and the destroying and blowing up of a great part of the city, killing above one hundred J. H. 1694 Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2009-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A45452 Wing H59 ESTC R4324 11887783 ocm 11887783 50397 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Limerick (Limerick, Ireland) -- Explosion, 1694. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. 2007-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion DREADFUL NEWS FROM LIMERICK , Being an Account of the Magazine of Powder Taking Fire the 12th . of this Instant February , 1694. And the Destroying and Blowing up of a great part of the City , Killing above One Hundred Persons , and Mortally Wounding many more . In a Letter from a Gentleman there , to his Brother , a Reverend Divine in DUBLIN . Dear Brother , MY last to you was giving you an Account of the sad unfortunate Miscarriage of poor Brother Paul , ( lost at Sea : ) This is to give you an Account of the most Dismal and Tragical Mischance that ever befel a City in so short a time , by so unhappy an Accident : The Long-Tower at the Key , where lay 250 Barrels of Powder ; the Foundation whereof being most washed away by the continual beating of the Water ; and being suspected for some time past to fall , Orders were given by the Governour to Captain Wayt , who is Store-keeper , to remove the Magazine , and prop the Tower , which sight occasion'd a great Number of People to frequent the Key that Morning , ( which was yesterday between Eleven and Twelve a Clock ) to view it : But before ever they could get the Beams and other Materials ready , the Tower gave way , and by the knocking of the Stones one against another , gave fire to the whole Parcel of Powder , which blew the whole Tower amongst the City , and killed above 100 and odd Persons ; amongst which Abraham Bowman Sheriff , Mr. Rowe Land-Waiter , Madam Butler , with several other Dwellers in the Town ; Counsellor Lacy and Arthur Lillys lost each a Leg , and it s believ'd will not live : The Blast was so great , that there is not one House in the Town , but receiv'd great Damage : The whole Key is blown to admiration ; it has made as great a havock as the War. The thing was so excessive and so unexpected it is impossible for me , or any else , to describe the distraction of the whole City , no man well knowing what it was , but supposing it to be an Earthquake . For my part , I have seen as terrible sights , as I thought cou'd be seen , and have escap'd as many Dangers as any one , but never saw the like ; nor never , the Lord be praised , escap'd narrower ; I then being in Key-Lane , in an House that fell by the prodigious weight of Stones that fell upon it : It blew Stones of 300 weight up to the Gallows , ( which is a Mile ) and the Land against it is all as if it were plowed ; it killed several Persons at work in the Field , as Tom Tingy , and several others thereabouts : The Key was not known this Twelve-months to be so full as it was at that time , for the day being very fair , and every one desirous to see the Tower fall , not suspecting the Powder would take fire , flock'd down , where many were as unfortunately lost . The Governor , the Collector , and some others , were at Dick Sexton's House , but escaped with small Wounds . Captain Wayt was under the Tower , and perceiving it to fall , made haste from it , and Luckily fell , which fall saved his Life ; but he is sadly Wounded . It shook the Country for 12 miles round . Praised be God , all our Friends are escap'd ; and this Deliverance ought never to be forgot , ( nor by me never shall . ) I never yet heard of so unlucky a Mischance . I am sure you will hear of it from other hands . But for fear you should suspect the losing any of your Friends , I thought fit to give you this Account at large . There are as many Wounded ( and most of them mortally ) as the Number killed , God make us all who survive , thankful for the Deliverance ; and always to acknowledge it as the greatest of Blessings . I am Your Loving Brother , J. H. LONDON Printed , And Sold by R. Taylor , near Stationers-Hall , 1694.