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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Disbandment of an English Indian regiment. (search)
culvert, the exploding of whose noxious exhalements caused so much alarm. The combustible nature of "earth gas" will be seen at a glance, when we assert that the explosion spoken of, as occurring on Sunday night, originated in the saloon of Robert F. Kirby, at the head of the Second Market, and was caused by Kirby's applying a piece of lighted paper to the end of the pipe which conveyed the surplus water and drippings from his "bar" into the culvert spoken of. The flame ignited the "earth gas,alements caused so much alarm. The combustible nature of "earth gas" will be seen at a glance, when we assert that the explosion spoken of, as occurring on Sunday night, originated in the saloon of Robert F. Kirby, at the head of the Second Market, and was caused by Kirby's applying a piece of lighted paper to the end of the pipe which conveyed the surplus water and drippings from his "bar" into the culvert spoken of. The flame ignited the "earth gas," and caused a disruption of the culvert.