Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1854-08-29

'Ro r, IDfESDA 81 IS l:s Il, AUGUs " y
3tered BY llhe explosion. These last pene-
/ rated in;o many rooms. covcIing The bed
ding, hian,ols. .4ables, &c. ~ g sfi
i pAIltealized aeonce that ibtfe had beenaa
! general and very serious desEIlcliQn Of prop:
ler,yT-bui the great fesKlh0i animated oil
was as 10 the Killed and wounded. AS many
we're hurrying 10 The scene a sba Splbsion,
they met d crowd csxxyine Nom lis resi-
4 denceio the Lea Hoose. II body ola. VIM.
\ r. Conwea. Esq. one ~ ebless and
9bleediue profuse il 6nd II llie do6fusion
lspRposedlo ateatly mangleds 81
4EiiIeiezs Such q scene, d distance II ~
squares from tbs magazine appalled, maAyr'7-
lwho can, even now, thirty bours after the
terrible calamity, scarcely realize thai In the
4 providence 81 God no. d single human be-
4 ing lost his life, and that with this ore ex
cep,ion, no individual was dangerously hurt,
and very few were wounded at all sgasiia
4 !. The damage. 70 properly is immense
4 yariously estimated al from $50 900 10 $780,
900. Every house developes damage Of
one sort or other aot previously discovered
--walls springs roofs giving way, ,crncks in
walls, door frames crqshed, partly in, doors,
!, shutters, sash, and glass demolished, walls
and roofs and partitions and flooring pierced
as if by cannohading, furniture Of all kinds;
. China.wate, &C., broken inlo fragments or
! greatly injured. .--------- /
Those at 1isiancss not acquainted with
!, the localities aboul Maysvile, will pnder-
, stand the reason Wby--allhough The, dam
, age is immense, SO great thai $50, 900 can
] moi replace everything in the same good or
der The explosion found ,bem-ihe destruction
was not much greater, when we tell them
, thai lbe Powder Magazine lha, was blown
, up, together with three other magazines, is
J situated in the narrow holoy or gorge along
1 which the Lexington and Maysvlle Turn
] pike ascends the hill back and south Of The
! Civ, al distance OF less than third Of a
, mile from the Courl house, and the heart pl
! hhe city. More .han 1000 people were qui-
5 lelIy slumbering at the dead hour of
! O'CLOCK, within, one mile Of ibis powerful
/. mine iha, was suddenly sprung upon Them
/, by the yillainy and heartlessness, Of lew
J rmen--Gve, il is beleyed--and but for The
! elevation Of The magazine a hundred fee
, over their heads, al least thousand human
5 beings must have been killed or horribly man
! gIed and crippled Tor lille, Indeed, as il is
, many who were not wont 10 offer thank:
(, have expressed great lhankluness Tor ihe
wonderful and miraculous inlerposition o
f; Providence in saving Them and theirs from
an awful dealh, yis,, ~ sl,a r..,
H. We. learn from the Express Of yesterday
{ thai ,fhe quantity of row der which blew, VI
! vas considerably more Than we stated .ig
4 our exlra above a,noupiipginaalI when ihs
. barrelswere reduced 10 shsgsio an aggregate
kegs, or about 81 S7.ooob6hhds. The
t oreiical gmners Of The navy can calculate
j, approximately the lorce OF The explosion
: when they learn thar the foundation Of the
4 Magazine was Of ,olerable heavy limestone
i and the walls Of three brick, or thirteen inch
!, es in ,hicknes, arched over with brick, ant
d with a solid iron door. "A stone weighing
g, l02 lbs, was found by J. P, Lawwell, wher,
i, was thrown BY the explosion, in Aberdeen
g en,irely across the river and al least a mill
d from lis place Of Surfing Another stop,
Weighing As pounds, struck locust post .
a grape atbor, in James Helms garden, il
! Aberdeen, and completely shiyered lhep
CO. The report OF ihe explosion was hear'
formany miles in every direcIion--at Pop
\ lar Plains, 90 miles distadi, on steumboa
!, AZ miles up the river; &c, ~ .1
i Al Orangeburg. miles off, chino.war
IS was shaken eff The table. At John S. Wells,
d 1 mile'ihis side Of Orangeburg, window
were broken At Geo. L. Formah's, 8
e miles south from this, windows were broker
e and boy thrown out Of bed On the farm
81 Iof Henry Waller, II miles over The hill
y back ofthe Magazine, windows were broker
d and shingles torn from the roof Of his gar
e dener's house A. stone was,hrown from
d the roofof VIM Hedrick's house ahalf !
% mile over the high hill. A stable door wa
% burst in, and the siile s2linered OF Geofg
Cox's ! miles below the Magazine. I'd q
IS Fa There are probably 6lIy houses whic
q have not single pane o,Jglassle(l unbroker
/ as many more with not dozen sound ones
g 1and sometwenty more with every sash bro
Il ken or thrown outoni the .aooriand wrecked
-efoo CoLUhiBUs AND iiookINe VALLEY RAJ
J. RoADf-@Ae meeting of The Board or hi
cl4 tecors iofSE Ehe Columbus and Hocking'Val
q ley Rail sRoad, held in lheitown Of Logar
u onSt The ] 1lh daySol August 1854, the.lollow
* ing resolutions were unanimously adopted
y1s bIesSolrsd,d Thar ilSe' present amount q
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