| Show WE dile wd WORK wore F k a I 1 J C tim THE prince of the he power of the air had a pir pit thine thino on beanes neso day oay 11 tee se ma f a I 1 es t ad himself in iun pt plenitude of power faw people see onee once iw in their lifetime and fewer still more than once in mortal mortality itys allotted t threescore rb e seam years anddew auddel and aud ten jowas I 1 im I 1 acx per peri perl lenco ienco edca enca which co compressed W pressed into a few mg moments rnest the e force of ry ears of ordin ordinary iry mental imp impressions ess lons ions and br gugat thousands s ands ofie ofle of people 0 le fa face ce with the pres presence edee cf of I 1 imminent h I 1 individual danger and apparent sudden death it was wad wa an lin elemental convulsion nearest akin to tho the wreck of matter ani aul I 1 i the crash of worlds that most mortals will ever wit nes and that those who have witnessed once will ger ever wish to witness again of our citizens p previously rev bously had any realizing idea of the immense reserve foce force stored tip up in a few grains of charcoal and ditre nitre and sulphur the knowledge thus tous practically and painfully obtained should stand them in good stead and und they should learn from froni it extreme prudence in dealing a uan dau powerful and uncertain element of destruction and abd death the explosion has been the main topic of conversation conver satin in lu the he city ever since and will be 1 ftp grm more 0 or r I 1 less ess tor days to coma come como years in the future the timeo it will be referred to as an era whence and w with fth ith which the of other to vents will be calculated ai and compared the cause of the convulsion in all human probability will never be detluf noy tOy ascertained if it indeed it will wiil willbe be approximately known 1 ube general supposition ahat that a gun or rifle was fired through the doors af of one of the and thus ignited the thip powder within is still stilt but a supposal sup supposition lion the young men hilf and end richardson we wc are ean jn for formed medi had a shot gun bet between w ben them bumb seems very improbable thata that a shot fro from m their gun had any thing todo toppo with v ith the explosion rhey must unfortunately have be envery near the magaz magazines ines ints at av ehe iho critical moment of theca the fas probably on their return home from the hill hills the idea of is lr ly supposable the principal objection being the lack of buff apparent inducement insanity Y might lead to such andio and so might unmitigated villainy insanity eeds needs 11 no motive but villainy usually has motive motives gain or of rev revenge enge eDge or of sheer shee r dia ta the motive of gain is not evident the motive of revenge does not appear motive ON WJ if existed 0 one would think would have led to the consummation of the devi devilish ilsk lisk deed in the darkness for if irit it had happened in the night time the devilish nes of the action would have been superlative perla peria tive the alarm would b bave have ave been most extreme the of the occasion bod hod od the attending sen dad have been magnihld mag nihed and multiplied beyond computation by an overruling providence that acme of consternation that supreme intensity of horror waa wag was happily saved to the inhabitants inhabitants of this the consequences would havo have abden far more serio serious dis fis illan twan than ilian they were and are it is a hard to think that the explosion was caused I 1 immediate carelessness does doea not eem to have been the cause for the reason that so fo far ag as we can learn jearil na noon kiib ewas ewaa engaged in a any of thib the that day it Is barely possible that iome gome some animal of the rodent pr order V er alvais y a foraging around jn in one ono or the mali maii magazines a iines lines and caused something to fall or jar andtius and thus ignite the powder it may be possible that a slight leakage of powder ponder outside had caused a train of gre greater ater or less length and substance tance beadi leading lik lib into the building and und that the disaster occurred through the accidental ignition in some non evident nia via way y of such loose spilt spill powder the most probable cause of the explosion however was spontaneous combustion fitsam boilers ordinary gunpowder and mills and magazines it s well eil ell known will sometimes explode in an unaccountable manner from no immediate cause within tho the therance range i of human knowledge and some tiie lime causes remotely ascertained bained or imperfectly understood thome of jhb the more readily inflame ble bie powders and arid other explosive s of thac that ulass ls approach BO iso nearly hearly to rui yui initiates in ih wino wine ume of their more kue kus sus BUS eh charal ai ties that a con cushion cus dion sometimes a very blight alight one is to ex explore luem them and aud evin even certain of ordinary binary tempe ratu e p may way do it nho rhe phe rho I 1 fikely likely kely cluse caubo of or the ther disaster then witti present mation matlon appeals to be tiou liou the next some bome kind of accidental concu concussion 4 the tiie nature pf af which is nov not appa apparent refit aud and best asta a rt iatter latter of vague ue c conjecture oda 0 nuu nut only should maga aines be ideate din ja places laces at a sate safe distance from ca cities ft e towns and settlements but each magazine should be located at a safe durance from 0 every very other magaz magazine ifie so 96 tiiu that th the e blowing dp op of one would not occasion ihl ibl bib wing up of another and aud il abuhl be elfia weir if themore pow powerful and readily exploded powders 1 ers were sto stored red by instead df iff evl with eh thu the cu common cummon gunpowder there is ung ong thing be looked after anibe in ibe the streets there th ule ele 14 aurga a larde large amount ot brolien broken glass kinns in h the city and und nd bome people unrow it out luio the streets V inthout ay any care NOW jow low it is 18 well weli known that many of the children go barelo utin otin jho euln surn bummer summer mer bilue tily will doit whether they have ahmea ur or not nut and they wiil will wil run cf cutting cuttings dangerously mem men little fuet feet with this glassy besides meir weir litile hands bids wili get into mia chief and the thy broken glass alsa is ifie to 10 them to hahula it is a heed heedless less Jess aning to w 1 the h e slie scie ets it be bo giul jiul put it in S some l im e place secure from thum them ov or from ans arof hurting them p s ehg thu the mot ready iundy and ud safe hafe muana means of g or it would be to bury it two or thi three 60 feet deep in ibe the lols lots th the children vii aldren duld auld would not act get at it nor voun douall youn d theM with it tuen then |
