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Show THOUSAND VICTIMS OF AN EXPLOSION A MPT K It lA M, June 2:1. More than 1'iOn persons were killed or injure'! or are mission in consequence of an exp'oainn In munitions factories at Hioewetf, according accord-ing lo an announcement mode in the lower low-er house of the Austrian parliament by! t lie minister of defense, as forwarded In j a dispatch from Vienna. The cflsnnltiea were given by the minister min-ister as follows: Dead, 1 .'16 ; missing, 1 70 ; wounded, R35. Of the wounded 5110 received only slight injuries. The minister said the explosion probably proba-bly wan rl tie to lack of caution on the part of men employed in a trench mortar workshop. . |