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Harry Clamage! more serious than the destruction of probably some 30,000 panes of glass, and the cracking of many ceilings and walls.
The explosion
fortunately not attended ...
2.
was caused
by
the
ignition of a great quantity of powder stored on board of the "Lyphyr", a vessel chartered by private parties for the purpose, and also of some on board the "Themis", Bremen vessel, alongside of the former for the purpose of taking in powder as part
3.
of
a
cargo
been so
intended.
The Maritime Ports.
Both vessels appear to have
instantaneously destroyed with
course there is
fall on board, that of
No
probability of ... as containing the
immediate
CA112.
of the explosion. It
seemed to me
that there were live, though nearly
simultaneous explosions.
amongst the first
were
about five miles distant from the shore of the Kowloon, and close to the Northern boundary of the harbour: The vessels appeared to have been blown literally into fragments,
the
greater portion of which
were
an inch in
length. I
three fragments of spars
long,
and
twisted in
they
were
scarcely
five feet
were riven, split, and
that illustrated
the tremendous force put into operation.
A
few large fragments having been
... at the Kowloon Hills at distances