*Your correspondent is unable to account for certain results, The force of the explosion came from the north-west. In some cases windows on the east side were driven out, while others were driven in. The force of the wave from the explosion, two miles away, bent heavy bolts in the locks of strong doors, an struck the window so hard in one place that a piece of glass three inches long by half an inch wide was driven almost horizontally and made to stick into the wall nearly twenty-five feet distant.
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