DREADFUL EXPLOSION ON RUSSIAN MAN-OF-WAR.
A. terrible accident has occurred on board the Russian warship Popoffka. It had just returned to Sebastopol from a cruise, and there landed all its combustibles, when suddenly the torpedo magazine blb> tip, killing Lieutenant Moozeen, an engineer, and hb<rly 30 of the 60 seamen then on board. It ft supposed a charged torpedo had been inadvertently left in the magazine, and that the men set to clean the latter, wishing to possess themselves of gunpowder, accidentally ignited some of it. Hbrtee the catastrophe. The force of the explosion blew several men on to shore and left no remains of btherih Of Lieutenant Koozeen, one hand only found. It was recognised as his by the ring on the finger. The Popoffka cost nearly 8,000,000 rotiblqs. The after-part is considerably damagea;
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1227, 16 December 1882, Page 2
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135DREADFUL EXPLOSION ON RUSSIAN MAN-OF-WAR. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1227, 16 December 1882, Page 2
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