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LondonInformations of Witnesses taken at
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there lying dead
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David Bowel
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maketh oath that last Friday afternoon
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Dept was at work with
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several other persons upon
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-that about a ¼ before five a sudden crack
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happened and great part of
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escaped, & afterwards on the went mustering together
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the two deced persons and three others who were
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afterwards taken out alive were missingSays they day for the
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deced & found him between 12 & 1 the night of the same
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that on the next day the other deced person Callaghan was
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found, he was buried in the ruins & quite dead. Says he
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does not know the occasion of the buildg falling on:
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Sworn the 22nd
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June 1795 before me
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