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Show HORRIBLE DIiASTklt. Oin: of ilitf ni'isl I'rifilill'itl ittia-lru . jh(s tlial we have over ha.l u, reeoni , in tliip eouotv, ot'fiirroJ h-i TuesJay : morniup, at Naintli-v.n. Th? bnilcr of f the steam saw mill ot Ileal, tlnwman ' k Kurnley blew Ui with au expio.ion j which shook the earth, anJ was dis-1 tinctly heard in Lextngloo. a diUnee ' ol'loiirtcn miles. James Real, Rich- J ard I'.iirnley and John Polon were ; killed and Joseph Wilkinson badly j hurl, lieal was blnwn to atom?, .mil his body scattered for three hundred ; yards. Jn his tearful flighl, he slruek a t rce, .-"ine t h it i y feet from t he ground, tenrinc oil one of his lei at ilie knee, and heopai taring hunk and j branches with his blood. His heart was found in one plnce; hi lungs in 1 another; part of tho lep, wilh lh boot still on, at i he fool of he iree airainsl : which he was first blown; his head was 1 picked up further alonp, and the faee i wore a perfectly natural smile; a por- I lion of his chest has nol yot been nv covered. He was about iwenfy-eifiht ; year.- of acre, and was from iceennes, I Imiinna, where bis wile is now living. Rurnleywa1: less mangled, but instantly ! killed. His aged lather, who lives ! in the neighborhood, ia almost crushed j benenih the terrible blow. A'oslon was , an old and worthy citizen of that region, re-gion, highly esteemed by ail who knew him. He was it ruck in the breast by a piece of the boiler; his loll arm was broken, and he was shockingly pealdcd. He died in about two hours. Joseph Wilkinson was struck in the side by a flying stone, his face lacerated, and his whole body scalded. Prs. llcnick and Kelt dressed his wounds; and, although al-though seriously injured, he will recover. re-cover. Thomas Campbell was I brown some distance and stunned, buL not ; much hurt. Mr. Bowman dreamed some time since, that the mill had blown up and killed all but himself. So vivid was llie impression made upon him that he has since kept away ! from tho place as much as possible. At the time of ihc explosion he was a half a mile off, getting a log. At the appalling sound he fell to the grouud, almost overpowered wilh horror. A1 son of Samuel Null, who was employ- j ed in the mill, was down behind i the bank of the river working with n skill', which was probably the means of; saving his life. 'J he force of the . explosion is almost incredible. The ground where I ho engine stood is swept as clean as a floor, stone, brick, timber, everything gone. The family I of Mr. Rcinhart, in this place, heard the roar distinctly, but could not at the time account for it. Fragments of the boiler and building were scattered far and wide for hundreds of yards. 1 Tho main cylinder of I he engine Hew : over an eighth of a mile, cutting oft" a solid oak tree in its flicht. Tho iu(ll is totally deslrnycd. Tlmse n .-uddenly bereaved by tliis awful calamity, the weeping mother, lathers, wives and children, in their deep and crushing atiliclion have Ibe heart (ell sympathy of I he whole county. May the Hod of the distressed and ibe desolate comfort, l hem. - ju'ii ! 0iin(t.iin. |