Hello All This may be of use to somebody someday! Heather Carbis >From The News of The World, Sunday 24 January 1886 DURHAM CURIOUS EXPLOSION.- A serious accident has occurred at the works of the South Shields Gas Company at Jarrow. Two men named HEPPEL, father and son, were attempting to open a barrel of gas-tar, and to effect this the elder Heppel used a red hot-poker. An explosion resulted, and both men were knocked down and severely injured. Heppel, sen., was rendered unconscious, and his son was much burnt about the face. Online Parish Clerk for Morvah Cornwall http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~morvah Visit my Family Tree at GOODWIN and GORDON http://heatherac.tribalpages.com