New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-07
ARRIVAL OF The BLACK WARRIOR.
LATER FRoM H4VANA.


Mr.. j. Gideon, purser Of the Black Warrior, fur.
nishes the following memoranda and particulars Of
this disaster
The Q. s. mail steamship Black Warrior, s. W.
Smith, commander, from New York on the 2Tth ult,,
and from Havana on the 3D. arrived at the levee last
night at haItpast 10 O'Clock. She had experienced
very pleasant weather the entire passage.
On the 10Th ult, at balEpast 4 o'clock, P. NJ. the
Naval Magazine at Havana situated at tie middle of
the harbor, and containing over one hundred and
fifty thousand pounds Of gunpowder, several hundred
o4ded shells, together with a large quantity Of rock
ets fireworks, ETC., exploded The shock and effect
described by the residents Of the city was truly
awful .
Thus far there has been found in the ruins and
about the grounds g dead bodies, and los wounded
four Of the wounded dying after. They had been re-
moved 10 the Hospital. For some moments the air
was filed with all descriptions Of destructive missiles
and many stones shells, ETC., projected long
distance from the building and into the Bay no
damage was done to the vessels at anchor. The
dead bodies of three coolies were blown through the
air to the slope Of Fort Aares nearly quarter Of
mile off. There were upwards of three hundred per
sons employed the new sugar warehouses in the
immediate vicinity of this disaster, mostly coolies,
and among them the loss Of life and limb appears to
have been the greatest. Ofthe military guard Of the
magazine, consisting of sergeant and sixteen men,
but four remained. Many bodies are no doubt yet IN.
der the ruins and in the waters of the harbor
The destruction of the fine pile of sugar ware
houses, some twenty buildings-several of which
were finished and the Others in course of construc
| tion--is complete, nothing now remaining but a
mass of stones and rubbish. The conclusion was so
great as to destroy the gasometers, rendering the
Gas-Works for the present entirely useless, and will
require at least three months before the city can be
lighted. Every residence is more or less affected by
the shock. Several buildings sustained great dam
age. Among the number was the residence Of Don
Domingo Aldama, fronting the military parade
ground.
b The Diario de Ia Marina of the 3Oth, in noticing
the event, says; The attention and relief afforded
by theauhortieso of city directed by the Captain
General COncha in person, who was, by accident il
the immediate vicinity at the time and first on th
ground after the explosion, where he remained unit
P. NJ, and engaged the whole force Of marines
tThe pencilng of the memoranda is too pale to dec
pher furtherl
Sugars are down fraction stock lis 900 boxes
Exchange on New Orleans, ST to s. New York, 4
to ~ London, 10 to l5l. U S. gold coins in deman
and none for sale.
The Black Warrior has on freight for New Orlean
100000 in gold from New York, and 50 400 fron
Havana, and q large freight of merchandise.
The following is the list of passengers
Ne,e York Hucaia.-G Cav and family A. G. DicFin
son. ]. w. Andrews s. :. t4ehde Captain J. Harding Mis-
u. Downs, Mrs $ W. Smith 9. Beislnot aud wife,
] HepeFs, r. De MesN 7. Hernandez 4. Bey j Cluqay L