TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
SHOCKING RESULTS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received June 9. at 5.5 p.m. Vienna, June 8. Estimates <■■' the deaths vary from ten to thirtv. and at least one hundred people were injured, mostly from cuts by glass or stone, which Ml on two companies drilling near by. The captain of the company was thrown off his horse and killed, and the men were fluiig to the ground and fifteen injured. The officer in charge of the magazine was blown to pieces. Aeroplanes were wreekeed in an adjacent aviation ground. A mounted soldier was hurled a hundred yards away with his horse. Some attribute the disaster to decomposing powder and others to a workman dropping a package of powder.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11655, 10 June 1912, Page 4
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121TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11655, 10 June 1912, Page 4
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