FATAL EXPLOSION.
FLYING DEBRIS STRIKES SHIPS. By ■ Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrielit Madrid, February 2G. 1 The charge used at Gijon weighed 3} tons. The. explosive was. intended to level a' hill to make a seawall.' biases permeated a fault j& the clay. Several ships were struck by flying' debris.' • [While .tho blowing up of rocks with dy'na,mite was in progress on. the harbour front at Gijon, Spain, a'quantity of debris fell; on. some of the spectators,', sixty, of .whota were killed.] ■ .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1686, 28 February 1913, Page 5
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79FATAL EXPLOSION. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1686, 28 February 1913, Page 5
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