The inquest upon•the men killed by the explosion of the
Nine Elms gasometers was concluded yesterday. It was proved that the meter-house contained two governors or cylinders, regulating the pressure of the gas passed from the gasometer into the mains, and that, just before the explosion, gas was escaping from one of them, and it was suggested that some plasterers employed in the house had accidentally tilted one of them, and the gas escaping in volumes caught the fire in the meter-house, and exploding, blew away part of the gasometers. The great body of gas then took fire. All the experts were of opinion that there was no atmo- spheric air in the gasometers, and that ans.cannot explode without .contact with the atmosphere. Cousequently -the men killed were killed by the explosion of gas which .had. escaped, and not of gas which had not escaped, a difference -which most be highly satis- factory to them. The jury returned a verdict of death by acci- dent, and the company will of course make its gas a little worse than before to compensate for its losses.
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