A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.
ON A JAPANESE WARSHIP. TWENTY-SEVEN MEN KILLED. THIRTY-SIX INJUKED. Received September 18, 8.44 a.m. TOKIO, September 17. A disastrous explosion is reported, involving loss of life and the injury of several persons. The men of the Japanese warship Kushima were being put through target practice when a shell exploded. Twenty-seven men were killed and thirty-six iniured, several fatally. The accident occurred when the vessel was off Kure, an important station of the Japanese navy, twelve miles south-south-east of Hiroshima, on the north shore of the Inland Sea. Reuter's agent states that the sad catastrophe was due to an attempt being made to remove an unexploded twelve-inch shell from a gun. The majority of the bystanders were fearfully mutilated. The explosion badly damaged the Kashima. A lieutenant, two cadets, and a staff officer were killed. Received September 18, ll*p.m. TOKIO, September 18. Five officers and 22 men were killed on the Kashima. Two officers and six men were severely injured. The hull of the vesr>el is undamaged.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8538, 19 September 1907, Page 5
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169A DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8538, 19 September 1907, Page 5
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