U.S.A BATTLESHIP DISASTER.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11994, 22 July 1907, Page 3

U.S. A BATTLESHIP DISASTER.

Received July 21, 4.20 p.m. New York, July 20. The Board of which t enquired into the battleship Georgia disaster reports that flareback caused j by the shifting of the air blast too f aoon while a light wind was blowing into the muzzle of the gun, ignited the powder which the loaderheld in their arms, causing the- explosion. Three more of those in--:jured have succumbed, making ten* [* deaths altogether.