The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-26 00:00:00

THE EXPLOSION AT MATENCE.

The German journals contain the following addi-
tional details on the late explosion at Mentz :
"Thousands of foreigners have flocked to the city
to witness the ravages caused by the late tremen-
dous explosion. Committees have been formed
to collect subscriptions for the relief of the
families of the killed and wounded. The
number of houses completely destroyed amounts
to 57, and of those more or less damaged,
64. There is, however, scarcely a house in
the city that has not suffered some injury. All the
magnificent coloured glass windows of the cathedral
and of the church of St. Quentin are destroyed.
The number of dead, as yet known, amounts to 17
civilians and 14 Prussian soldiers. The loss among
the Austrian troops is not yet ascertained, and
there is no doubt but that other bodies are still
lying beneath the ruins. The number of Prussian
soldiers wounded is between 80 and 90. The civi-
lians wounded or mutilated are counted by hun-
dreds. A soldier in garrison at Darmstadt, on
being told of the explosion, hastened to Mentz and
found all his family dead. One young man got out
from under the ruins the body of his father and his
two brothers. In addition to the 200 quintals of
powder which were in the magazine, there were
also in the building 700 charged shells and 240 firo
balls. Fortunately, these latter all burnt out on
the spot, for had they been thrown by the explo-
sion on the city, the whole place might have been
set fire to. The corps of Austrian officers, 200 in
number, had announced a carousel which was to
have taken place near the magazine about the very '
time that the explosion took place, but happily the
unfavourable state of the weather had caused the
fete to be postponed."
The Mentz Gazette of the 20th says :—" The Prus-
sian sentinel who was relieved just before the ex-
plosion saw an Austrian military rocket enter the
magazine, and did not see him come out. It is, in
fact, the Austrians who were charged with the care
of the magazine, and kept the keys, the Prussian
soldiers only mounting guard. Yesterday there
were found among the ruins of a house the lock of
the magazine, with the key still remaining in it. It
is, therefore, beyond doubt that some one was in
the magazine at the time of the explosion ; but as
the Austrian colonel of artillery positively declares
that no one had anything to do in the place, the
man must have gone in without anylegitimate mo-
tive. It has been ascertained that a man belonging
to the Austrian rocket brigade, named Wimmer,
has been missing since the event."
A letter from Munich, of the 20th, says that the
King of Bavaria, on hearing of the catastophe at
Mentz, gave
orders that the large stores of gunpow-
der collected at Grunwald should be immediately
divided amongst different places, and in consequence
portions of it were at once despatehed to dl at The quantity collected at
stadt and Mg
Grunwald was estimated at 2,000 quintals.

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