The recent Fatal Explosion.
• . LATER PARTICULARS, DEATH-ROLL INCREASING. 100 HOUSES FIRED AND 100 SMALL CRAFT BURNED. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Madrid, November 6. Awful accounts continue to come to hand of the slaughter at Santander. The death-roll is continually being added to, and it is believed the list will reach 1000. A launch belonging to a man named Owar, with 40 officers and seamen, was alongside a vessel trying to extinguish a fire when they wero blown sky high. Fires are still ragiug in town. Fragments of the burning vessel at Santander were blown over the city and about 100 houses took fire simultaneously. The shipping suffered severely from the effect of the explosion, and a hundred small craft were sunk. The vessel had five hundred cases of dyna« mite on board, but the captain declares he had only twenty which were landed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 111, 7 November 1893, Page 2
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