Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

BALTIMORE. September 5.

"And this should teach us
That there's a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how he will."

This morning, between 9 and 10 o'clock, the following melancholy accident took place, which, it is hoped, will operate as a caution hereafter. As some men on board a schooner off Bowly's wharf, were firing a swivel which had been loaded several days, it burst into a number of pieces, one of which (4 inches long and 2 broad), struck a negro man, called Phill, (who has been for many years a measurer on the wharves) took the upper part of his gullet, under-jaw and part of his upper-jaw entirely away, and left him a breathless and ghastly monument of the uncertainty of life. Several pieces flew against the vessels and ware-houses; and it was a singular intervention of Providence, that no other person, not even the one who fired the gun nor those standing round, received the least injury. There were many people walking near the place, and necessarily a number of narrow escapes.