EXPLOSION ON A CRUISER.
ONE MAN KILLED.
FOUR MEN INJURED.
United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. - LONDON, June 29. A gun explosion on the cruiser Essex, off the Stilly Isles, during the naval manoeuvres, killed one man and injured four other men.
HOW, THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED.
■„ , i Received 4.15 p.m., July Ist. ';/ . * ' l LONDON, July 50. The Essex had fired a blank charge, and the breech of the gun had been opened in preparation for reloading, when the backfire exploded the blank cartridge-.which]' was being held in readiness:
The Essex is a first class cruiser, built in 1901,' is of 9800 tone, has. 14' guns, and a speed of 23-knots. She is in comm&nd' of Captain 5 Richard B. Parquhar. '
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13016, 2 July 1906, Page 5
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119EXPLOSION ON A CRUISER. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 13016, 2 July 1906, Page 5
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