Thursday, September 30, 2010

Explosion

BANGOR, ME., May 3. – A powder mill explosion occurred at Graham yesterday.  Eight buildings exploded successively.  Two hundred barrels of powder were in them.  No one was hurt, the employees all being at supper at the time.  The cause of the explosion is unknown.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 4

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