AN ENGLISH STEAMER BLOWN UP BY NITRO-GLYCERINE.
New York, 20th April. ( Tttb Arizona, steamer, has arrived from Aspinwall. A feairful explosion occuired on the English steamer European, at Aspinwall, oh the 3rd inst., destroying the ship and 400 ft of the wharf. The supposed cause was nitro-glycerine.' About fifty persons were killed, among them the captain and officers. The damage caused by the explosion is estimated at a million of dollars, of which the officers of the Panama Railroad Co. in this city estimate the loss of that company at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The nitro-glycerine was shipped on board the European by Guin and Co., Liverpool,, as glonoine oil. The niro-glycerine seized by Marshall Baker, as 'stated btlow, arrived about a week' ago from Hamburg At that time the authorities did not know the dangerous nature of the article, and it was placed in a public stove. The whole amount seized has been placed in a safe magazine where there can be no possibility of an explosion destroying life or property in the fu:ure. No nitro glycerine will be hereafter admitted in any of the public stores. As the vessel was destroyed, the Alta presumes that nearly every body on board was lost, and hence infers that the "passengers debarked, and that probably the explosion occurred while tho men were engaged in landing the nitroglycerine. Seventy cases of this glycerine or nitro-glycerine were shipped, per steamer Euro-; pean, from Liverpool; 27th February, by Guion and Co. to Bandmann, Neilson and Co., of this city, and, but for its explosion, would have been oh the steamer, Golden Age, due at this port on Monday. Eire Marshal Baker, under the instructions of Mayor Hoffman, has seized about 3001 b of nitroglycerine, stored up town ; also a large quantity on board a ship in the hhrbor. He fans also arrested Colonel Otto Burstinbinder, for shipping a quantity of the same compound to California that exploded there.. -
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 396, 23 July 1866, Page 3
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326AN ENGLISH STEAMER BLOWN UP BY NITRO-GLYCERINE. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 396, 23 July 1866, Page 3
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