FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.
FIVE AMERICAN SAILORS KILLED, United Press A&iociatdon — By Electao ' Telegrap&^Copyris-lit. (Received Jan. 19, 8.54 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 18. The explosion of an eight-inch gufMn thf turret of the American battleship Mass* chusetts killed five and injured four peiv sons. The priming accidentally caught^ causing a discharge while the breech war open.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7878, 19 January 1903, Page 2
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