Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1888 — A TERRIFIC HXPLOSION. [ARTICLE]

A TERRIFIC HXPLOSION.

Witty Chinese Soldier* and Several Hundred Civilian* Instantly Killed. Chinese ad vices by mail report that 40,000 kilograms of powder in a magazine at Amoy-exploded on Nov; 3L doing terrible damage. A fourth of the buildings of the town were laid in ruins, and other losses were sustained. Fifty soldiers were blown to atoms, and several hundred civilians were killed. {