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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: April 28, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) or search for Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) in all documents.
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Awful catastrophe in Mexico.
--We find in an extract from the Ece de Europe, of the 15th of March, (a newspaper which follows the army, and is now published in Orizeba,) the following details of the awful catastrophe which took place in San Andres Chalchicomula:
On the 7th inst. the village of San Andres Chalchicomula was the scene of one of those terrible accidents which cannot be witnessed without a feeling of pity, mingled with terror.
Some 2,000 men, with about 300 women and children, belonging to or following the Mexican army, and most of whom a attached to regiments raised in the State of Oxaca, had taken up their quarters in the commissariat building, in which were stored great quantities of gunpowder and ammunition.
But these, instead of being kept in a room for that purpose, were left scattered in the yards, exposed to the heat of the sun and the fire of smokers.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, a spark fell in one of the boxes, set its contents on fire, and the fire
Later Northern, European, and Mexican news. Norfolk, April 27.
--Northern papers to the 25th instant have been received here.
The following is a summary of the news:
From Mexico.
The latest advices from Vera Cruz state that the French had resolved their division into expeditionary forces, and would alone advance against the capital without delay, assuming all the consequences.
The Spanish and English Plenipotentiaries therefore resolved to withdraw their forces and march back to Vera Cruz.
The French division had commenced the march upon the city of Mexico.
From the West. Cairo, April 24
--The country between here and Mound City is inundated A large portion of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad was washed away.
Pittsburg April 24.--Gen. Granger, with 500 cavalry, has had a fight with the rebels, lasting an hour.
Both sides retired — loss small.
The general aspect of affairs is unchanged.
Chicago, April 24.--A special dispatch to the Times says,