Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-10-02

| SHOCK were ulSluCtiJ icdtu anu ic1t tltU =
OUT the city, although The distance is about
| SIX miles.
Since the above paragraph was in type,
| we learn that the amount OF damage is a
| bout 5000 doliars-and that II is believed
to be the work OF an jncendiary.
Baltimore .ameYtcGn.
| From the Piuyfeld (yNass } Sun, Sept. 70.
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE.
On the 9th inst about the middle OF the
! day, there was tremendous explosion at
the Powder Factory Of Mes.rs. Latin and
! Loomis, in Lee. In some uncomfortable
manner, spark Of FIRE was produced in
J the glazing house, which instantly explo-
ded; and IN about half minute there was
an explosion of the holhouse. which was
situated some rods from the other. In the
glazing house there was about $500 lbs of
powder, and in the hot house about 5000
lbs. The effects of the explosion would
have beer still more dreadful had it not
been for the removal OF tons OF powder
from tn bot-house few days since. Both
buildings were blown 10 atoms. and the
fragments fell in all directions, some being
carried to the distance OF from quarter 10
bait mile. Most Of the timbers were
sh,vered to pieces, but one stick, OF the
" light of three or four huadred, was car
rled near fifty rode. About thirty build.
ings 10 the vicinity were more or less in-
lured; greal portion OF the windows bro
ken, boards torn off, and in some ins,an-
that in same cases. windows and boards
we're broke in 10y the pressure on the out
side; and 30 other cases they were broken
out ny the superior pressure OF the air on
the inside, alter the force on the outside
was exhausted.
But the fragments, scattered over this
scene OF desolatiun, might be viewed with
comparative nsrnsibiIity, were they not
ming lied with the blood and broken bodies
OF our fellow creatures. Four men, Targee,
Sparks, Beach and HinckIey, were in or
near the glazing house at the time of the
explosion. Targeb was found dead on the
margin OF the river, bis body much bruis-
ed and burnt, and partly covered with
The fragments of the buildings. Sparks
was blown some distance up the bill, his
body dreadlully maDgled, and his bowels
torn out. Beach was thrown about forty
rods into The mill pond, and was not found
for some hours alter the catastrophe -
Hinckley was blown some distance into
The river, and is since dead.
We are requested to insert the fol.
lowing paragraph received from the
best authority: ". Y Gaz.
Several publications have lately ap.
Peared in bo'h hemispheres, under she
title of Memoirs Of General La Fay
ette--one from the pen Of NJ. Renaud
Warm, was published in Paris imme-
diate'y previous to the departure of
the General for this country, under cir
cumstances which seemed to call for
public declaration, that the work had
been composed without his particips.
ton. In making ,his declaration it was
equally Just to observe, that notwith.
stand some inaccuracies: more particu
lai ly 10 the observations hazsrded on |
that period of recent French history
known by the name Of The hundred !
days the work is in general hisIori.
cally faith lul and exact, and friendly to
the individual who is made the subject
of the memoirs. In this country eeve.
raj publications have appeared bearing
similar title all are likely to contain
much that i, accurate or wholly So and
to merit bytheir intention the grateful
acknowledgements of General La Fay.
cite. 1t appears however, proper TO
state that he has not himself published,
Or caused to be published, any memoirs
of his life, although he cannot but be o.
bliged to those who have taken the