Terrible Disaster
BURSTING OF A BIG GUN. TWO MEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED*, | PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | Melboubne, March 30. A terrible accident occurred at the Easter manoeuvres at Queenscliff. WhileCorporal Buaily and Gunner Donaldson, of the Geelong Battery, were closing the breech-lock of the six-inch Armstrong: gnn, the gun exploded, and both men were -mangled beyond recognition, nothing being left on their bodies but their boots. - Other men belonging to the detachment were sent reeling about in blinding smoke, streaming with blood, and are badly scorched. Lieutenant Munro and Gunners Notts, Heighten, and Diggan, who. -were close to the gun which exploded, are severely but not dangerously hurt. Colonels Price and Goldstein, Captain Uphelby, and other officers, dashed up to the battery and recovered the, wounded. The cause of the explosion is at present unknown. r
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 119, 31 March 1891, Page 2
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