Fatal Artillery Accident.
(per press association.)
Melbourne, March 30. A terrible accident occurred at the Easter manoeuvres at Queensclifl. While Corporal Brailey and Gunner Donaldson, of the Geelong battery, were closing the breech lock of a six-inch Armstrong gun, the gun exploded, and both men were mangled beyond recognition, nothing being left on their bodies but their boots. Other men belonging to the detachment were sent reeling about m blinding smoke, streaming with blood, and are badly scorched. Four men who were close to the gun which exploded are severely but not dangerously hurt. Colonels Price and Goldstein, Captain Uphelby, and other officers dashed up to the battery and recovered the wounded. The cause of the explosion is unknown.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume X, Issue 2343, 31 March 1891, Page 2
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119Fatal Artillery Accident. Ashburton Guardian, Volume X, Issue 2343, 31 March 1891, Page 2
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