Villagers throughout the district were frightened within an inch of their lives when the explosion was. heard, and the repercussion caused much the same effect as an earthquake might have done." The deafening noise was heard also through a wide radius. At the Kiangnan Dock & Engineering Works the vibration of the report ]was registered by those who had arrived for work, and a dense cloud of smoke was seen rising in the direction of Lunghua, according to 'a foreigner in the offices of the srmer face. Likewise, a foreigner living near the end of Edinburgh Road hourd the report and saw the black cloud mounting to the sky in. the distance.
'As soon as casualties had been' ascertained on Thursday, poster were hung up outside the entrance of the Arsenal in Lunghua Road, and Jerowds of villagers and passer-bys were gathered reading the informa tion contained thereon. Names the dead men wore given, and a few details about the incident, The Possible Damage No accurate estimate could be riven yesterday as to the amount of powder causing the explosion, nor
was mentioned by the officer al the extent of damage though $10,000 ly referred to as being at least 1 amount of damage caused.
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