A young man named Pocock, apprentice to Mr. Gundry, grocer, of Devizes, going in the evening into a wareroom above the shop, with a candle in his hand, without the necessary precaution of putting it into a lantern, a spark communicated to two tubs of gunpowder deposited there, weighing about l5lbs.each, and the explosion was tremendous: it carried away the front of the upper part of the house, and nearly the whole of the roof.
The poor youth was precipitated down two pair of stairs into the shop, his face and the upper part of his body scorched to a cinder. He died on the following Thursday.
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