The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-06-30

FURTHER PARTICULARS or THE
TERRIBLE DIS AsTER AT WILAiIN G.
TON.
Erplosion Of JfVs tons of pond e Qsgful dest
sraetion Of I re and properly.
WInI0To0 Del, May 81.
Our citizens we're thrown into a terrible
commotiOn shorty before ii O'Clock this
morning, accompanied with d sensible Jar 81
every building ia the place, while the CON
cussion ofthe air caused immense destruc-
ton % the glass. Doors and windows were
burst open rs if shaken b an earthquake.
It was soon aseertained to have proceed
ed from al explosion Of poWderat the cor
Ener Of Fourteenth and Orange streets, and
ia the vicinity the destruction beggars dei-
lcription. An earthquake could not have
caused greater devastation.
Three large teams, containing $50 kegs
Of powder, the whole estimated at five tons
were on The way from the mills Of Dupont
q Co., to the wharf for the purpose d
being skipped, II. passing along Four
teenth street the last wagon was opposite
Orange streetand Immediately in front d
Bishop Dee's elegant residence. The other
wagons being in advance about 16 feet
It's not known which Of the wagons first
exploded. EothingAbut frag ments remain
of wagons. horses and drivers.
Bishop Lees house was terribly shatter
ed. The roofw lifted up bodily and bro
ken into fragments, the front wall blown oul
the floor broken up and every window and
door torn away. The beautiful gaIden,
and even the summer house, well known t.
every visitor Of these charming grounds
are ravaged and Destroyed
| The Bishop and bis family were fortu-
uately absent attending the Convention d
the Diocese in st. Andrews Church, few
squares Of. A female servant was in tht
house with acbild. The latter was slightly
hurt the servant was badly cut but is no
dead, as vas enormously reported
Three houses on Orange street, below
Fourteenth, were completely destroyed
: OF one frame housenot a portion remains
standing.
4 A young Irishman, boarding with JohI
Mclaughlin, was fatally injured and die,
shortly after Mclaughlin was very bad
ly cut and his clothes torn Of. His wife i
very seriously injured. and her child abou
Two years Of age. was missing. but 1t wa
! subsequently, taken from the cellar uninjur
ed.
The families Of VIM Mccoy and Rich
ard Reynolds living in the other houses
are all more or less injured, the wife o.
1.-THE latter quite seriously.
i The residence Of James Candy. corner
Of market and Fourteenth streets. was terri.
bly, shattered and win have to come down.
The inmates were badly cut BY the glass
and falling plaster The brick stables and
barn, together with the carriage house and
fine garden were all destroyed.
On the opposite side Of the street. the
elegant. residence Of James r.. Price was
SO mueh injured thalit viii have to be re-
IbuilE
On the South side Of Fourteenth street
the barns and stables Of 10 eph Price
! John 81. Price and James 3. Price, were
all completely destroyed In the latter
Robert Henry. colored man. was killed.
The following were also killed-Johr
Reese, Thomas Tailey and Thos. Hughes
employed as drivers ofthe teams.
The trees along the street. and il III,
gardens bordering were stripped Of theii
Leaves, and some torn upby the roots.
fragments Of the wagons, horses ard drl
vers, were blown il various directions z
human arm was found Il TIE distance 2
800 feet one Of The drivers vas bloEr
over the trees and tie fragment of hii
body lodged On he shore of TIE Brandy
vine, which runs behind Bishop Lee
grounds.
Allthe walls and other objects il th'
houses injured 81 the explosion were dri
60 towards isinstead Of from Is tie ap
pearance Of the houses shows that The grea
vacuum caused BY the explosion had ears
! ed the airin the houses to burst them. 4
Mr.. Pierce's house. the heavy folding door
between the parloFs. which were closed
the time, we're forced violently from thl
hinges, and carried to the end Of the room.