FORTY KILLED IN EXPLOSION
POWDER MAGAZINE AT MELILLA DESTROYED (United Press Assn.—By Electric T-sU graph.—Copyright.) (Received September 27, 9.6 a.m.) MADRID, September 26. Forty were killed in the explosici i of % a powder magazine at Mellila. —Aus tralian ‘Press Association. BLAST DESTROYS FORT AND MANY HOUSES. CROWDS RUSH PANICSTRICKEN THROUGH THE STREETS (Received! September 27, 11.30 am.) MADRID. September 26. Forty were killed and 200 injured in the explosion of the powder magazine at Old Fort Hills about, ope and a half miles, from Melilla. The dead included 31 Chilians and nine soldiers. The. fort was completely destroyed, together wjth many houses adjoining These, which were of wood, buried theii residents -in the -ruins. The explosion occurred at 1 a.m when people were leaving the theatres The sky was lit up by a red glare and then the explosion followed. People, panic-stricken, ran in all directions shouting with terror. When the rescuers came on the scene of the disaster they found that the fort had entirely disappeared. No wall was left standing. All the hospitals are full of injur ed.—Australian. Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18577, 27 September 1928, Page 1
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