Further investigation of the explosion of last Tuesday has not. brought out anything new, except that the number of killed or not accounted for has been increased to sixty or seventy. The force of the explosion travelled chiefly in a south and southeasterly direction. The trees on the south side only were levelled to the ground, and these were fifty or sixty feet higher than the level of the magazine. At a distance, in some places, chiefly doors were blown open, in others the windows suffered the most. In a single dwelling house ninety window panes were broken, and in the University buildings six hundred and furry panes of glass, and in many cases window sashes and all, were driven into the rooms,
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