Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-10-10

Sc was discovered suear the Iththsnse on ThaieSes
Island he was ths beach, making bis way to the
when discovered by two boys ~ho called their father
and they all succeeded iu kng him among the rocks
and sea weed The last time the Adult Serpent
WAS near this cove it's eonecaed. she deposited her
Ia the sand ofs beach that this has been batch
ed aud was seeking the water when discovered and kill
ed.
We learn from Gloucester that the persons who killed
the younger serpent were Mrssrs. coLBEY and Nok-
WOOD.
SALEM, Oct I've have seen the young of
the Sea Serpent. The head was much injur-
| ed, but from the protuberances, which have
| an evident character from the frame of the
serpent, we fix him unequivocally in the famj-
| ~ of the Sea Serpent. Commerson saw some
of the fish which had the general form of Sea
| Serpenis upon the Coast of Labrador. They
were without fms, and he gave them the name
| of Gymnomurenes.-He had not supplied des.
| criptions OF them, when Cepede published his
| larger work, but from the sight of the Sea Ser
| pent,w see they had no resemblance, but
| from the absence of fins. This fish has more
the habits of the Coluber, than of the Murena.
Schneider, in his edition of Arteda, tells us
from Albert, there were many kinds of Sea
Serpents, which were not properly serpents,
but serpentine fishes, which do not live in deep
waters. but near the shores, and that they were
early observed in the ocean near Germany,
and as big as the thigh of man. The Ser
pent, when we saw it,was on its way from Glou-
cester to Boston, and we only took care to OBJ
serve the protuberauces. AtBoston it will un-
dergo an entire examination, and the internal
structure of the fish will be seen. The great
resemblance to the fish which was delineat-
ed by Captain Beach, has given the full con-
viction that this is the real young of the fish
which has been seen in our waters. The Co.
lubers are frequently not more than three feet
in length, but they have been seen above thir-
ty feet in length. This serpent is entitled to
very careful examination. Registcr.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
BALTIMORE, October Con Saturday last
at eight o'clock, A. NJ. four separate shocks
| quakes, we're felt in Baltimore, accompanied
by explosions like those of heavy cannon at
distance. Our streets were soon crowded by
citizens who accosted each other in language
like this " Did YOU feel the shock-it must
have been an earthquake" While this, and
similar conversation was going on, other shocks
were felt. accompanied by rattle of the win
| dows and doors in the adjoining houses, and
attended again by the deep and hollow thun-
| ders aforementioned. While our fellow citi-
zens experienced such conclusions, and were
| anxiously euquiriug into the cause, dark sui
| len cloud of smoke was distinctly seen rising
In the north, that explained AT once this alarm
ing phenomenon. The powder mills belonging
to MIR. lowering, of this city, abont seven miles
| from Baltimore, we're blown up. 1t appears
that the laberers had returned TO the mill from
breakfast for the purpose of changing the pots,
just before this alarming accident happened.
| The overseer declared it as his opinion, that
| the men must have accidentally carried some
| sparks into the mill, which might have alighted
| upon the sleeves Of their coats, or fallen upon
| their pantaloons.-Thus far the declaration of
| the Overseer.
One of the men who suffered severely de-
-clares, that on his return from breakfast, and
while in the act of changing the pots, he disco
vered the mill to be on fire, occasioned by the
| friction of the gudgeon, aud that he forwarned
| his fellow laborers that they were inevitably
| lost. He states that Immediately afterwards,
| the explosion must have ensued; and that as
soon as he recovered his reason he found him
| self immersed in the water. The escape of
| one of the sufferers may indeed be called pro-
vidential. He was blown by the first eXplo-
| sion as he states, from one mill on the roof of
another; another explosion Immediately after
wards ensued, by which this unhappy victim
OF the second explosion was thrown on the wa
ter wheel, and from thence into the stream.
1 A young girl who lived in the vicinity of the
| mill, ran in that direction to call her father
| when the first accident took place, she was in
| dwelling house situated near the mill, after
| which she ran across the adjoining fields when
the second explosion ensued, she discovered
\ dark niassy substance thrown into the air di-
| rectly over her head she hal just time 10 es-
| cape from the spot where she stood TO avoid
| the crash of the falling timber.
| Six men have been, ny this tremendous acct
| dent. launched into eternity-ther names are
| as follow Samuel Diusmore, John Boyd, So
| lomon Wheeler, James WEIGH, Patrick Ten
| ney, John MingO, black man. Mr.. Wheeler
| left wife aud two children to lament his IN
| timely loss. The bodies of the sufferers were
| perfectly black, and maugled in so shocking
| manner, that we will not infict pain in the
heart o. sensibility by dwelling on such affect
| ing recitals. The name of the wounded are,
Duncan Stone, dangerously, and James Shutter,
Sn far xCo ha ftrHr frau nj
| lection, there was about an interval OF ten mi
| the three latter followed in more rapid sue
| cession.-So entire was the destruction that
| the buildings were RACED to the ground, and e.
| ven the foundations blown up. Astonishing as
ii may appear, it is nevertheless true, that the
| roof of the magazine, containing $50 barrels of
| powder, was blown off, and yet, in the shower
| of descending sparks, no further injury was
! done. We are credibly informed that this is
| the fifth time the powder mills in that place
have exploded in sixteen years, and that only
| one person has persisted before the last distress
| sing calamity.
| 1oaccOunt for the difference of time between
the different explosions, il is only necessary to
| stare, that the burning rafters and beams from
| the FIRST building probably set fire TO the sec
| Ond, and the other two being placed so near
to each other, in all probability, took fire more
| rapidly The damage has been estimated 10
| be about $4,000. One OF the men was thrown
| by the explosion among the timbers, from
| whence he was suspended by the middle and
| was distinctly heard calling to his companions
/ for assistance, when the second put period to
| his sutieTings. These are all the particulars of