Of course all who were in or near the magazine were blown to atoms. It would have been impossible to -find a brick or stone as large as your fist an; where nearer than the house one hundred yards away from the craters, and one piece of wood was said to have been picked up nearly two miles away. However, this may have been thrown out of somebody's kitchen as it was only a charred board. The houses down the valley to the east were in ruins and one was burning. The whole force of the explosion seemed to go south, east, and south-east, judging from the appearance of the trees about the place which accounts for the terrible concussion off here (at the University), two miles from the scene, and for the hardly perceptible effect at Hsiakuan (as reported by the Chinese).
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