THE EXPLOSION ON THE H.M.S. TRIUMPH.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1035, 29 March 1882, Page 3

THE EXPLOSION ON THE H.M.S. TRIUMPH.

One of tbo oflhcers of H. 11. S. Triumph who fortunately escaped uninjured, gives a brief but startling account of tho catastrophe' Ho says .—''Two men, near tho place were foiled on the spot, and a ihinl (liedontho afternoon of tho following Saturday, while many were terribly burnt. The material which exploded was stowed Under the paint room—direotly contrary (o the Admiralty instructions. It appears ■ tliatanyirino went tlioro with a light, and hp was litorally blown to pieces. The bads in tho 'sick bay' outsido the paint room were wronehod out of the deck, and tho mon were thrown all over it. As I liavo said, one man was blown all to pieces, and the second who was : killed wns thirty-five yards off, his death I resulting from concussion of the brain. Tlio man who died yesterday (Saturday) afternoon sustained frightful . injuries. His thighs and abdomen were almost blown away, and ho was a terrible sight. Strange to say the painter, in a paint-room, was only badly burnt. Thcro is, at the time I am writing only one dangerous case among the injured-thai • of a stoker, who is suffering from severe ( internal injuries and concussion of the ' spine. At the time of the explosion, I np and down on deok, and wits, playing ' Goa savo tho Pcetf trilic colors. It guvo us nil a [eß'jb|o frijilt, Tho exploded material had got into tho .doublo bottom, and it was only yostonUy that anyone could get near it, owing to tl)s gas which omanated from fc" -J