AFTER THE EXPLOSION.
| Horror wide extends |
| Her desolate domain!—Thompson. |
The thunder of the explosion, when the old Haunted Chapel was blown up, was heard for many miles around.
It burst upon the unsheltered wayfarers like the crack of doom!
It stunned the plantation negroes gathered around their cabin fires!
It startled the planters' families at their elegant tea-tables!
Travellers paused panic-stricken on the road!
Home-dwellers, high and low, rushed with one accord to doors and windows to see what the dreadful matter might be!
Was it an earthquake?
Had some unsuspected volcano suddenly burst forth in the mountain? Indeed it seemed so!