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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1862., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], The explosion at Jackson, Miss.--further particulars. (search)
he back by a flying brick, and but slightly injured. Jas. Carnes, a carpenter, was also slightly hurt in the side. These three were the only ones outside the building who were hurt. The officers in charge of the Arsenal are, we learn, Col. P. Stockton, Capt. W. Tams, Lieut. R. S. Kinney, and Capt. M. Fisher. Col. Stockton had fortunately just been called away. Capt. Tams and Capt. Fisher were not in the immediate vicinity of the explosion luckily, and Lieut. Kinney was providentially absCol. Stockton had fortunately just been called away. Capt. Tams and Capt. Fisher were not in the immediate vicinity of the explosion luckily, and Lieut. Kinney was providentially absent, sick in his room. At the time of the explosion, the laboratory held only a few hundred rounds of fixed ammunition, and about two hundred pounds of powder, so that the pecuniary loss is quite inconsiderable. The cause that led to this tragical occurrence must, like others of a similar nature, remain a mystery. It is most positively known that there was no fire within several hundred feet of the laboratory, and no satisfactory account can ever be given of the cause of this calamity.