A very strange and ugly accident happened this day week
at St. George's Hospital, in Grosvenor Place (Hyde-Park Corner). About an hour before noon, a little water was observed to be trickling from a great tank erected at the top of the building, to supply water at high pressure throughout the hospital, and shortly afterwards the tank burst with a loud. report. At the time of the bursting, the tank held about twenty-five tons, or 5,000 gallons of water,—its total capacity being 8,000 gallons. A great hole was broken in the iron plating of the tank on the eastern side,— a hole of about six feet diameter. The water rushed through the roof of one ward known as Wright's Ward, burst through the floor by a larger hole, passed through Holland's Ward, and so to the students' room, a stone-floored apartment, out of which it got by bursting open the door. Two women were carried from the top ward through the middle ward to the lower, and one was carried from the middle ward. One of these women, who had had her breast amputated, and had re- covered, and was just about to be discharged, sustained a fracture of the skull by the accident ; another, who had had a tumour re- moved from her knee, had the wound reopened and the chest severely bruised ; and a third, who was jut cured of a disease of the ear, was severely injured. Four be in all fell through, two of them carrying the patients with them. Several of the students also received more or less serious injmies.
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