A thunderstorm last night cooled the air some, though it is
still extremely hot. There was a boat blown up this morning down at the wharf
and thirty or forty lives were lost, mostly negroes. The boat was being loaded
with ammunition and the explosion was caused by a negro's dropping a box of
loaded shells. A number of persons thrown into the water were rescued from
drowning.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 136
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