IN LONDON ROAD.

Special fury seems to have been concentrated on the beginning of the London Road. Here stands the Technical School – a very fine and well-proportioned building – and a bomb dropped exactly opposite its main entrance. Not only is every window blown out, but the handsome metal work in which the panes were set is twisted up like mere ends of tape. One or two of the shrubs on the lawn have been torn up, and the place has altogether suffered badly. Just opposite are some good-class shops, and a bomb which fell at their rear wrought absolute wreckage in the show rooms of Mme. Emelie Main, whose pretty autumn millinery exists no longer. The interior of the house shows everything movable displaced, failings fallen, but happily there was no loss of life here, though her mother and a young baby were in it, and escaped by a miracle through crouching under the stairs. It was near here that the greatest number of deaths occurred, as it is the tramway terminus, and many people were on their way to the stations to return to town. The injuries were of fearful character, and it took all the courage and resolution of brave men to face some of the awful character of the duties to be done. A building in the yard of the Tramway Company is being used as a mortuary, and some very sad scenes have occurred there. A man and his wife came down from London, dreading to find their daughter among those reverently placed here, but they were unable to identify her, and were then going under the guidance of an officer of the constables to the hospital. But though it is believed that thirty-two deaths have occurred, only about half that number are identified. In some cases recognition is well-nigh impossible, and it was only by his uniform that Guard Humphreys, the oldest guard in the employ of the Great Eastern Company, was identified. He was on his way in Milton Street to take up his duties, and was killed instantly. A family from Bermondsey is believed to be among the slain. Many people were thrown to the ground by the violence of the explosions, which did great damage to private houses in Lovelace Gardens and at Westcliff. There was, naturally, a certain amount of panic, but the general tribute is one of high praise for the order and good sense of discipline manifested by the crowds. For the recent heavy rains, too, Southend may take some comfort, as it is stated that several bombs failed to explode on the soft and yielding ground of lawns or gardens.