MUNITIONS EXPLOSION.

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13655, 24 August 1916, Page 2

MUNITIONS EXPLOSION.

FACTORY DISASTER IN YORKSHIRE. TWENTY BODIES RECOVERED. i Per Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N,Z, Cable Association.) LONDON, August' 23.'; Dr 1 Addison - (Parliamentary . UnderSecretary to the Minister of Munitions) stated .in the : House of'. Commons that twenty bodies had been:recovered from the Yorkshire munitions • factory explosion. . Considerable . destruction had been done, but ; the casualties were lighter than anticipated, ■' '• \?Vj OFFICIAL STATEMENT. MUNITIONS WORKS DEMOLISHED. (Australian and-N.Z. Cable Association). Received August • 23/9.0 ; p.m. _ • , LONDON, August 22. It ;is officially announced that the munitions factory explosion' .originated outside one, of the;, smaller , magazines. The warning -given wa,s sufficient to enable the-majority of the moil and every escape before the small magazine exploded. Others exploded at short intervals, until : the largest, causing the bulk of the damage. . The munition works were ■ practically demolished, 'and other places : were nearly burned. A,quantity of. rolling stock and railway sidiiigs'weie destroyed. The bursting of a fire engine killed a number of firemen. .