MUNITIONS EXPLOSION
GREAT CATASTROPHE AVERTED ALL BUILDINGS FLOODED. Reuter’s Telegram. LONDON, August 14. Budapest confirms the statement that no one was killed in the Osepel Island munitions explosion. The casualizes were two seriously injured ami 60 sightly by fragments of glass or suffering from shock. The explosion was the result of spontaneous combustion in the powder galleries, where powder stood on shelve 4, so that the force of the explosion wa - directed upwards. The guard at the powder works was twice alarmed b> watchmen.
The fire brigade and engineer troopnverted a great catastrophe by flooding the buildings and covering them with earth.
The great concussion broke all the windows in the neighbouring houses, and damaged many buildings.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12527, 17 August 1926, Page 7
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