To-day a great calamity occurred in this city. In a large
room of one of the government laboratories an explosion took place, killing
instantly five or six persons, and wounding, it is feared fatally, some thirty
others. Most of them were little indigent girls!
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 273
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