A Lyddite Explosion.
; ,; FATALITIES AT TtOOL^WJCH; : " Cfnited Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—- Copyright. - London, June 19.7 . By . the bursting of a lyddite . shell, at Woolwich, J 4 people .were aivl 13 w;arfn(ded; ' ; . The explosion is atti-ibiute,d to grit", . dluring, the , process of rexnoving- the -ataejk' forming, the. cavity for the ex"plodcrl , , . ' 1 - The King sent . .a. measlage of sympathy with the relatives of the deceased, and with the injured-- sufferers. , The War -.Office report states that'o'ut of thirty 10-inch lyddite shells, filled over night, /seven are missing. The . force of the explosion threw many of tl?e Shells, to sT^i'staiicS AvitjiO|Ut . exploding them. - ' ;/ The JlydHitcsJ IydHitcs in the melting pot# in .ah adjtwinmg^biuilidi'ng did not explore. Many victims^ slome a.t a distance from the biuilfclingi, receijveicl wounds. Other acco'uiits sstate that the missing shells were recovered, several of them •heuving'' demblishecl walls at 'a' distance, Jqlling and injuring people. None of, thent were filleicl "«ri.th explpjrlert. ' - ■'.'-'
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12287, 20 June 1903, Page 4
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155A Lyddite Explosion. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12287, 20 June 1903, Page 4
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