TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
A SENSATIONAL ACCIDENT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 0, 5.5 p.m. Vienna, June 8. The estimates of the reused by the explosion vary from ten to thirty. At least a hundred were injured, mostly by cuts from the glass and stone which fell.
Two companies were drilling near by. The captain was thrown off his horse and killed, and men were flung to the ground. Fifteen were injured. The officer in charge of the magazine "was blown to piece. Some aeroplanes were wrecked on an adjacent aviation ground. * A mounted soldier was hurled a hundred yards with his horse. Some attribute the disaster to decomposing powder, and others to a workman dropping a package of powder.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 295, 10 June 1912, Page 5
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117TERRIFIC EXPLOSION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 295, 10 June 1912, Page 5
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