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Alexandria Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Explosion at Lorman and Donnell's powder mills, four miles from Baltimore, felt in city around 6 PM April 24. Destroyed two mills and a house; one worker dead, one critically burned, one maimed. Cause unknown.
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Our city, in various parts, felt a sensible concussion about 6 o'clock last evening, and a report of some distant explosion was distinctly heard from the north-west quarter by many persons, who were much at a loss to account for it: And shortly after, a cloud of singular appearance advanced from the same point, exciting still greater curiosity. All doubts, however, were soon arrested by the painful tidings that the valuable Powder-Mills, belonging to Mr. Lorman and Mr. Donnell, about four miles from the city, had blown up.
The loss of property is very considerable: three houses, two of which were the mills, being quite demolished and another much injured. One of the workmen received a contusion on the head from a descending fragment of one of the buildings, of which he died this morning; another is so badly burnt as to leave no hopes of recovery; and a third considerably maimed. How the catastrophe originated, cannot be ascertained.
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Primary Location
Baltimore
Event Date
Last Evening, April 25
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one workman died from a contusion on the head; another badly burnt with no hopes of recovery; a third considerably maimed. three houses demolished or injured, including two mills.
Event Details
A sensible concussion felt in Baltimore about 6 o'clock last evening, with a report of distant explosion from north-west and a singular cloud advancing. The powder-mills belonging to Mr. Lorman and Mr. Donnell, four miles from the city, blew up. Loss of property considerable; origin unknown.