VARYING ESTIMATES OF THE DEATHS.
\ HUNDRED PERSONS INJURED
OFFICER BLOWN TO PIECES
(Received Juno 9, 5.5 p.m.)
Vienna, June 8. The estimates of the deaths caused by the explosion vary from ten to thirty. At least. 100 persons were injured, mostly suffering from outs due to glass -and stono which fell. Two companies were drilling near-by. A captain was thrown off his horse and lulled. The men were flung to the ■ground, 15 being injured. The officer in charge of the magazine was blown to pieces. Aeroplanes were, wrecked on an adjacent aviation ground. A mounted soldier was hurled a hundred yards with bis horse. Some attribute tho disaster to decomposing powder, and others to n workwan dropping a. package oi! powder.
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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13439, 10 June 1912, Page 5
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122VARYING ESTIMATES OF THE DEATHS. Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13439, 10 June 1912, Page 5
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