At the end of the London work day in one of the massive warehouses along the Thames in Southwark employees discovered a fire in a stack of jute.  Within hours this had become a blaze that burned dozens of buildings, killed the head of the London Fire Brigade, and burned for days.  James Braidwood, the popular and efficient head of the insurance company run London Fire Engine Establishment, was killed in an explosion while fighting the fire.  Losses to goods and structures were in the millions of pounds sterling.  The burned-out warehouses smouldered for months. (By John Osborne) 

For some weeks the Times of London had been falling behind in the publication of its contracted advertisements.  With the situation approaching a scandal, the owners decided to publish a one-time issue triple its usual size of thirty-two pages.  That day's Times measured thirty-eight square feet and contained more than 4000 advertisements with more than a million and a half individual type settings. (By John Osborne) 

In Britain, at the Clay Cross Colliery near Chesterfield in Derbyshire, miners broke through into a disused and water-filled old tunnel and immediately their diggings were flooded.  Many were able to make it to the surface but twenty-one men and boys and sixty-four pit ponies were trapped and drowned.  (By John Osborne) 

The Liverpool and Montreal Steam Navigation Company mail steamer Canadian had left Quebec three days before it struck an ice field in the Straights of Belleisle between Newfoundland and Labrador.  The iron ship sank in half an hour and the 97 crew and 112 passengers took to lifeboats.  Ships in the vicinity were able to rescue survivors and transport them to St. Johns but thirty-five people were lost. (By John Osborne)