Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-11-25

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stones, which desired a great numps. a.
churches, hotels aribrlyatc houses. ~
THIS explosion largdonss were GARRETT
the distance of a ne and a hail. ms
manage o~ecasioned this accident wat
ialued at more thaawo millions OF ou'
ats.
On the 18Th Of Auast. 1883, tne-poT-
DIR magaz,ps at Malala t,ok FIRE. ofea'
prs Of The edifce was thrown down y the
wade city would Isrbsps have been en-
TREY destroyed, hsd not thu inhasltaass,
by spirited resistance, succeeded TWO
yeas before, 10 theSrenoval OF It, TO a
piae a league dissantfsom the .owa. ihis
msazins generally easainsd SIX Thousand
quissls of powder.
O,,he 4,h at May 1885, the magazine
near Tasgiers exploded. The building
wasDlown up wi,h aaresdfal aeiae, and
the rea,er part of the ~neighborias houses
weri thrown down. The shock was SO v'-
oles that the whole dty was shaken: aad
the oors and windows OF the Aouses were
all oxen. Lucky a great part OF the
pow or had been taken eas a few days be.
fore. and there remained only an hundred
and tsenty q,antals. Had DOT this been che
case, he Hno!e city wauld have BEEN re-
ducsdto a hsaP Of rains.
Ak Cravelines,i France, three thou
sand ,cople were kifed by the explosion OF
a mso.s;ae. near the own; AID al Dublin
one a,pdrea men wer. destroyed by the
b!sw % ~ Of '1uo hundred end e;shfeen
basrsb Of pssvdsr.
% The 4.h January, 1649, sixty houses.
including a tavern fall Of people, wee
blown up ic the sity Of Londoa, by the &C
celestial explosion of a szU jarrels Ct pow.
der "a, 2 ship chsnd!cr' /: A child in shs
cradlsvwsas carried en- I'd, leads OF a chn!cs
and fond unhars.
Cnethousard ho,.ses, ana a prod'gious
nunhe Of inhshi.sn.s w.re swept away b,
az exPcsion of the mag lz,ne 8, Iscnsn
aud By he aarne accident, at Ashevll!e, II
France as bundled buildings were ,hrows
dowu, aud 10 less tlao oYs hundred aaa
a:;y Of the Inhabitants ss5;sh:d ia he ra
iGs.
% the island Of Corfu. h!oag;rs 20 r;
Vene'l ens, eighteen hundrFd mea yer
killed by the ex2losiep Of sevensy.,w.
thousand pounds OF po@det aud ao''
shaa three huudred lives were lost at IN
o~lowing Up of a magazine nsar the tow
Of It;uct;nopoli, ia ths Eas. Iod;cs.
TIE powder cnills 10 the plains d. Crane
dis, ia France, were blown 90 With 50 VI
Client an explosion shss windows were bfok
ca at the distance Of three leagues, an
nearly csc thousand people .ess ki!sd o
wounded.
it.would exceed The limits intended 70
this ccminurIcatiGn, and be a treapass o
the resder's pasieace, TO detail the msa
shocking circumstances which aceompanI
ed The fSplos,on Of a powder magaslos a
Ciyi,a Vecchia> in i:aly, by which ii VIZ
SIN, oss totally Destroyed; or to invite
m'ore particular astentlon TO the effects c
the same accident, experienced some year
siace 10 the West India isles, and 10 tn
year 1852, a, the city Of Charleston, in S
Carolipa.
We oaly hint a. those .rasical events
though q minute detail Of then woul
prove nore interesting, apd perhaps b
more in paint 10 the r%elativc situation Q
the TOWN. Of Brooklyn. To recits shem j
by nc meaas a pleasing task. il may how
ever not be usproftablc to hear them. A
ali events the writer of this viii conside
the relation he has now given. as a e%nfRcieu
answer to a query by one Of the proprietor
OF amagszine. Pray sir have you eve
heard Of The explosion of apowder maya
zine ~ / leave the reader to make his ow,
observations.
I cannot conclude this subject Messrs
Editors, without reminding you Of an ever
that took place during the American var
A sloop lying to the scu,h,wess of Mur
rays uhaff, asd almost equi. distaa, freu
the New. York and I.ong Island shore. wa