THE TORPEDO EXPLOSION.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7805, 7 March 1891, Page 5

THE TORPEDO EXPLOSION.

'.■-.,< — ~ -. DEATH OF TWO MEN. , [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEaRASCI WELLINGTON, March 9. An abdominal operation was performea on Ross this morning and hopes are entertained of hia recovery. The others are progressing favorably; It is now believed that the accident is due to the men smoking. Latxb. First-class Torpedoman Boss, who was injured by the gun cotton explosion yesterday morning, began sinking rapidly this afternoon, and died at 5.40 this evening. Deceased was thirty-five years of age, married, and had been a member of the Torpedo Corps for about five years. He had charge of the smithy connected with the station.

Densem, another of those injured by the explosion, died at nine o'clock this evening. In the explosion Densem's hair waa completely burned from his face, whioh was covered with a charred mass of blood and cuticle. There were lacerated contused wounds on his left cheek aad eyebrow, extending on to the temple. The outer skin came off his hands like a glove* while his legs were much scorched, especially about the knees and ankles; on the back of the left arm there were eight lacerated and contused wounds, two of them being particularly large, expoaiag the lacerated and charred muscles.

Cornwall, the third man, is report*-* this evening as doing well.