Nov. 26.
There were 400 persons in the building time of the explosion and everyone was hurled to the ground, The floor seemed to split in two, flames shot up through the roof, which was blown off. Showers of stones, bricks and debris mixed with human remains descended in the neighbourhood. The walls then collapsed. There were the most gallant resenes. The bodies are being removed from the buildings, and up to the present time thirty-three are found to have been killed and seventy-five injured.
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