THE GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.
ATTRIBUTED TO DECOMPOSING POWDER.
Vienna, June 8,
The estimates of the deaths vary from 10 to 30. At least 100 were injured, mostly with cuts from the glass and stone which fell. Two companies were drilling near by. The captain was thrown off his horse and killed, and the men flung to the. ground, fifteen being injured. An officer in charge of the magazine was blown to pieces. The aeroplanes were wrecked in an adjacent aviation ground.
A mounted soldier was hurled 100 yards with his horse.
Some attribute the disaster to decomposing powder; others to a workman dropping a package of powder.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 149, 10 June 1912, Page 5
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106THE GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 149, 10 June 1912, Page 5
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