The following dreadful accident happened at Inverary:- A shopkeeper, after selling a girl some gunpowder, had just put it into a flask, while he most imprudently smoked a pipe of tobacco, when a spark from it communicated with the powder, which instantly exploded, carrying up two of the joists from the floor above, where a barrel of powder was placed, which also blew up, carrying off the roof of the house.
The poor man and the girl are both so much injured, that they are not expected to recover.
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