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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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A gun-cotton mill in Faversham, England, exploded, killing 20 workers and injuring 14 others, with total casualties estimated at 34. The blast was heard 17 miles away, and the cause remains unknown. Many workers were spared due to haymaking.
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A gun-cotton mill, at Faversham, had exploded, and caused great consternation. So loud was it that it was heard at the distance of seventeen miles. The number of persons who had suffered was supposed to be thirty-four: of these, twenty had already died. Their funeral, or rather the interment of the fragments of the bodies that remained, had taken place. Of the 20 dead, the remains of 10 only had been identified, owing to the dreadfully mangled state of their bodies. Of the 14 still living, several were not expected to recover. Awfully destructive of human life as this accident has been, it might, and but for a providential circumstance would, have proved more so. It fortunately happened that a considerable number of those usually employed in the works were at the time the catastrophe occurred engaged in haymaking. The immediate cause of the accident still remained, and most probably ever will remain, a mystery.
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Faversham, England
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20 dead (remains of 10 identified), 14 injured (several not expected to recover), total 34 suffered
Event Details
A gun-cotton mill at Faversham exploded, causing great consternation. The explosion was heard 17 miles away. The remains of the dead were interred, with bodies dreadfully mangled. Many workers were spared as they were haymaking. The cause remains a mystery.