At twelve o’clock last night one of the state powder mills, that at the old United States Marine Hospital at Gretna, blew up with a report that shook the whole city to its foundation stones. A pillar of flame shot up to the sky, for an instant illuminating the whole heavens, and then came the noise and shock—too great, too sudden, too overpowering to be mistaken for anything than what it really was.
At first it was difficult to know in what direction the explosion had been, so diffusive was its effects, but as the building became wrapped in flames its location showed itself, and assured our people that it was not the arsenal which many had feared.
The explosion, at that hour of the night, could not have been the result of accident. It must have been the diabolical work of some incarnate fiend. It behooves the men of New Orleans to look about them for traitors in our midst. Let them be hunted and placed out of the reach of doing mischief.
(Delta..)
The Avoyelles Pelican, Marksville, LA
Good catch. It kinda reminds me of the disaster going on in Los Angeles right now.