FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSIONS IN CHINA.
News has corns to hand of the frightful gunpowder explosions in China. The first occurred recently at Pechow, a town in Anhui, on the boarders of Honan, resulting in great loss of life and damage to the town, a large portion of which was laid In ashes. On the following. Sunday morning an explosion of gunpowder far more disastrous in its results occurred in Talplng, a town on the south bank of the Yangtze. At the time of the explosion about 50 persons, under a mandarin, were working in the mills, and they were all absolutely annihilated. An immense portion of the city, including the district magistrate's yamen, was demolished, as was also the mission of the Jesuits, which was between two and three miles distant from the mills. A portion of a cannon, two or three feet long, fell through the roof of the mission, and a large stone fell In the, mission enclosure, burying itself in the ground. The number of persons killed was first estimated at 300, but later Information states that 800 coffins have been taken out of the city, and that still there were not enough to bury the dead in. A Chinaman lighting his pipe while repairing the roof of the powder-mill ia said to have oaused the catastrophe.
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6989, 14 February 1891, Page 2
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