Chapter XIV: Accidents and Fatalities From Lightning (3)

+-------+------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| DATE | BUILDING | DAMAGE |
+-------+------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| 1732. | Gunpowder Magazine at | Exploded. City laid in |
| Oct. | Compost Major, Portugal | ruins; above 1,000 people |
| | | injured |
| | | |
| 1739. | Bremen | 1,000 houses destroyed |
| Sept.| | |
| | | |
| 1763. | Fort Augusta, Jamaica, | Great number killed; much |
| Nov. | powder magazine, containing | damage to property |
| | 2,850 barrels of powder | |
| | | |
| 1769. | Brescia Magazine, containing | Exploded; 3,000 persons |
| Aug. | 207,600 lbs. of powder | killed |
| | | |
| 1769 | Venice | 400 persons killed |
| | | |
| 1772. | Chester | Great damage to property; |
| Nov. | | many lives lost |
| | | |
| 1773 | Cambray | 18 people killed; several |
| | | houses greatly damaged |
| | | |
| 1773 | Abbeville | 150 persons killed; 100 |
| | | houses destroyed |
| | | |
| 1780. | Malaga Gunpowder Magazine | |
| Aug. | | |
| | | |
| 1782. | Sumatra Gunpowder Magazine | |
| Mar. | | |
| | | |
| 1785. | Tangiers Gunpowder Magazine | |
| May | | |
| | | |
| 1807. | Luxembourg Gunpowder Magazine| About 12 tons of powder |
| June | | exploded |
| | | |
| 1808. | Venice Gunpowder Magazine | |
| Sept.| | |
| | | |
| 1829. | Navarino Gunpowder Magazine | 17 killed; 78 wounded |
| Nov. | | |
| | | |
| 1840. | Bombay Gunpowder Works Dum | |
| June | Dum Gunpowder Magazine | |
| | | |
| 1843. | Sicily, Puzzaloni Gunpowder | |
| April| Magazine | |
| | | |
| 1843. | Spain, Gaucin Gunpowder | A number of persons |
| April| Magazine | killed; church and 200 |
| | | houses destroyed |
| | | |
| 1853 | Hounslow Gunpowder Magazine | |
| | | |
| 1855. | Firework manufactory, | Exploded |
| Oct. | Liverpool | |
| | | |
| 1856. | Rhodes Gunpowder Magazine | A considerable number of |
| Nov. | | persons killed, and a |
| | | large portion of the town |
| | | laid in ruins |
| | | |
| 1857. | Bombay, Joudpore | About 1,000 persons |
| Aug. | | killed; 500 houses |
| | | destroyed |
| | | |
| 1878. | Bruntcliffe Colliery, near | Exploded |
| Aug. | Leeds; powder magazine, | |
| | containing about one ton of | |
| | powder | |
| | | |
| 1878. | Pottsville, Pa., U.S.; a | Exploded; 3 persons |
| Aug. | powder magazine containing | killed, several injured; |
| | 25,000 lbs. of powder | many houses wrecked |
+-------+------------------------------+-----------------------------+