New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-01
FIFTEEN HORSES KILLED.
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF DWELLINGS.
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NILfk1Tof, Del, Nedne>1cy, May II, l5pi.
About lol o'clock this morning three wagons loaded
with five uns Of gunpowder, belonging to Messrs Dupont
Co., exploded at the Of Fourteenth and Orange
s;s., killing seven persons and fifteen horses.
The following is List Of the killed John Kcese, Thomas
1aley ana Robert Chambers. the wsgon-drivers young
man in the employ of Thomas Hughes eolOred waiter
named Henry, in the employ Of James E. Price; and
coored female servant at Bishop Lees child Of John
McLaugh.ns il also missing.
Let Of wounded: Thomas Hughes. wife AMI child Sc
rously hurt William Mccoy and Mrs. Richard Reynsis,
badly hurt; and numerous Others more or less injured
The residences OF Bishop Lees and james E. Price to-
gsber with five Others and six stables, were destroyed
About seventy-fve o;hor houses were badly damaged.
The total loss is estimated at about 80, co.,
The in the neighborhood OF the explosion this
forenoon exceeds all description and looks though
earthquake had taken place.
There three large teams, oacFconveyng 40 kegs
of powder from Dupon;s mills the whole estimated at
about five tuns. The powder was being conveyed from
the mills the wharf for shipment The pass
Ing along Fourtecnihst the time the explosion took
paoethe last wagon being opposite Orangesi, and i'm
medatey opposite the elegant residence OF Bishop Lee
The other wagons short distance ahead 1t ia not
known which load first exploded. The Bishops house
terribly shattered. The roof was lifted up bodily AMI
broke into fragments The front wall fell into the street
The floors broken up, and every window and door
in the house torn away and broken to pieces Tho
Bishops beautiful garden entirely destroyed. There
was, fortunately only servant and child in the house
the Bishop and his family being absent attending Con-
vontion Of the Docess in St. Andrews Church, few
squares off. The servant very badly Injured
but the child escaped nearly unharmed
Three houses Orange-st, below Fourteenh-st,
completely destroyed. One of the houses wooden
structure and utterly demolished 10 IFS very ounda
ton. young Irishman, boaTder with John AfcLaugh
lin, fatally injured and died shortly after the disaster.
Mclaughlin very badly cut and his clothes were torn
off his wife also very seriously Injured Their child
fell into cellar and taken up uninured The ami
lies of William Mccoy and Richard Reynolds living in
the house all less injurcd-he wife of the
Inter quite badly.
The residence Of James Candy corner of Market and
Feurteenth-sts., terribly shattered and the inmates
were badly with glass &c. His stables and barn. to-
gcther with carriages and fine garden all destroyed
On tho opposite side the elegant residence of james T.
Price, so much injured, will have TO be rebuilt.
On the south side of Fourcenth-st the barns and sta
bles of Joseph Price james L. Price and John H. Price
all completely destroyed.
In the latter the colored man, Henry, killed many
trees torn up by the roots.
The fragments Of the wagons horses and drivers
blown in all directions
human arm was found o, feet from the place of eI
ploson and one Of the drivers lodged the shore of
the Brandywne
The tire of Wagon, weighing one hundred pounds,
was thrown Distance Of 200 feet, and fragment OF
another tire driven nearly through the trunk of large
tree.
Nearly all the houses along Oranee-st, as far south as
TeBth-s have glass broken and plaster shattered from
the walls.
On Marke-st., adjoining the residence of James E.
Price the buildings OF John X. Plates, John H. Price and
Joseph T. Price greatly injured, and furniture glass
ware &c, broken.
Seven dwellings on Thrcenih-st., called Brightsrov,
much damaged
The explosion caused terrible sensation through the
city, people rushing from their houses in grea! terror
One gentleman riding horseback distance ahead
Of the wagons felt the ground trembling, and OF the same
moment was lifted from his horse and seeing the windows
falling into the street thought earthquake had occurred
Thus far only five persons are known to have been
killed and the bodies fragments of four have been
found and inquest held on their remains The follow
ing are their John Reese Robert Chambers, Thos
Taley the drivers Of the teams Prices coored man and
another name net known.
Tie explosion was felt at brick meeting house thirty
five miles south of Wilmington.
The total loss of estimated not less than n-
GLIDING the powder and teams, valued at $1,000
Messrs. Dupont were on the ground actively engaged
in doing ali they could to relieve the sufferers. They do
clare their intention of paying for all the damage done to
property.