CAUSE ATTRIBUTED TO DECOMPOSING POWDER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 10 June 1912, Page 5

CAUSE ATTRIBUTED TO DECOMPOSING POWDER.

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGH3 . VIENNA, June 8. The estimates of-'v^e deaths causea by the explosion vary from ten to thirty. At least a hundred were injured, mostly by cuts from the glass and stone which fell.

Two compa-niesl were drilling near by. The captain was thrown otr his horse and killed, and men were flung to the ground. Fifteen were injured, t The officer in charge of the magazine!" was blown to pieces. *i Some aeroplanes were wrecked on an adjacent aviation ground. . ' j A mounted soldier was hurled a, hundred yards with his horse.

Some attribute ilu> disaster- to decomposing powder, and others-) to a workman dropping a of powder.