Mrs. Du Pont is relaying more news of the explosion of 11,000 pounds of finished powder, workers and family were sure that Irenee had been killed, but he was safe
Admiral Du Pont sending via the steamer Massachusetts, two hundred-pounder rifle bolts (shells) and one forty-pounder recovered at Ft. Pulaskis, fired by sailors from the Wabash. He is sending them to Lammot for safe keeping and so not to alarm his...