The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-08
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ings occupies an Of about forty feet square and thew
are seyersly divided from each other INV nounss ~
earth about forty feet high having base Of about the
these mounds being intended TO prevent The srno,
one building affecting either OF the adjoining srectcs
The buildings very massive tho brickworr ~ ~.
walls being eighteen feet thick They consist NJ ons
floor only and those which devoted TO the
ture Of the cotton are divided into four
the drying room, the packing Department the
labelling department and the cooperage called Ia
serted in the wall of the drying room an immense iron
chamber, cauldron, Of slightly concsl form this
receives the heat from the furnace and communicates
to the drying room where the importa tproc,ss Of dry
ing the cotton is carried No whatever is allowed
to exist within the building and the same precautions
to the admission Of the workmen in shoes, Sc,
generally adopted In powder exist In the build
ings devoted the manufacture The pro-
preparing the cotton be thus briefly describsd
The web Is first stepped into solution OF acids, after
which spriug water; It 10 then drain
ed Of all the moisture contains and taken into the
y packed into cartridge paper tubes in which form the
article sold The sleeping process Is carried on IN
building erected Tor the purpose In the rear OF
the stove No 4 The building contained some massive
cauidrons and other machinery. On Wednesday morn
ing just previous to the explosion the works were in full
operation Between forty and fifty persons were en-
poyed in the two cotton stoves and in the sleeping de-
paztment Nothing seems to have occurred calculated
to occason the slightest apprehension to the moment
OF the accident taking place As be ascer
tanned about quarter past eleven while the work peo
Pile employed in the NO a. stove actively engaged
the explosion occurred The effect, a few moments AZ
ter 1t took place. can scarcely be imagined The No
stove was literally blown atoms OF the massive brick
work forming this structure not brick remained up
on another and marvellous 1t may appear the earth
to the depth Of five six feet beneath the foundation
torn up and into chasms as il by the shock OF
an earthquake The materials raising first into the air
TO an Immense height fell in different directions and
large portion clearing the earth which separa
ted the buildings Nos and came with great violence
on the roof of the latter This but the work OF
moment and the next instant the No 81 the con-
tents of which had beyond doubt ignted from the fallen
materials OF No q, exploded In similar manner. With
the exception OF the chimney, which is still standing
this building is reduced to wreck Nos and (stll
used as powder mls extensively injured and almost
uh fha hnif mi IL, uhtp I'M
ing carried situated before stated in the
rear OF No was blown completely down. and the mas
sve machinery which It contained hurled Into stream
which skirts the northern boundary Of the premises
or the unfortunate beings ut work In the building
No. A, scarcely vestige discovered the
scene of the explosion Arms, legs, and portions
Of shattered trunks thrown in every direction,
and in some cases, to an incredibly long distance
The remains of the unfortunate creatures engaged in
No were less mutilated Some Of the parties In No
were extricated alive, One youth, named P---
q most miraculous escape. He w."
the explosion took pl
tarily lost his senses by tn, a
himself buried up to his mi
having sustained any sero
wretches seriously mutila .tHnl
miserable end, being burne ,tl
be extricated. The extrao
on the buildings in the neip
| fields In the vicinity, canno a3HI
| by an eye witness. The roc
| about quartnr Of mile OF
| stripped Of their tiles, and
| Even in the town OF Fever u. tant
| from the Of disaster, broken, and
| the houses otherwise damaged In instances On
the opposite side Of the which forms the northern
boundary Of the Marsh works field Of wheat OF some
extent The explosion has completely blasted this over
space OF about two and the dropping and
discolored present Of desolaton In perfect char
acer with the adjoining ruins. The willow which
skirt the bank Of the stream referred to- and indeed all
the trees within about fifty yards of the buildings No
aud a. are torn by the roots and scattered about
all directions Those distant less seriously
ured but the foliage of all within very large circle Is
wholly destroyed Another BILE instance Of its
power shown in the forcible election from deep
well of two massive pumps, tho eaden pipes Of which
nearly twenty feet long, drawn up and thrown to
very considerable distance The explosion heard ut
an enormous distance from Feversham. At Deal and
Maidstone and even at places than thirty
miles from the scene Of the accident parties de-
scribed TO have heard 1t distinctly may be interest
Ing to state that the strength of cotton is just six
times that of gunpowder In other words drachms
| Of the cotton are equal to two ounces Of powder
W The New Planet.
Hon SCHOOL OBsERvAToRY, Aug. d, lSl7.--To the
editors of the Philadelphia North
called, by article in the New York Herald to
the recent discovery Of Henckes second asteriod
Driessen the first Of July last On arriving in this
city to-day, learned that MIR. Russell Kinds Elements
and Ephemeris mad been published In the Epenng MAIL
London July 10TH and received in this city and that
the ssterod had been observed the night Of the
18th and 5th ut observatory by Mr. Sears c. Walker
assisted by Messrs Reynolds and Mason 1t is Of the
ninth magnitude, and perfectly resembles fixed star
subjoin MIR. Kinds Elements Of the sixth astcrod OF
our system. Its name has not yet reached US
Epoch July o. iSI.. .2S3d. 6m. 3i0s. Grh
Il.