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Show BLOWN UP BY POWDER FORTY PEOPLE KNOWN TO HAVE EEEN KILLED. I'owder Magazine at I-a Goubran, France, Containing 60,000 BllojrniiuM of lllaek I'owder, Kxplode. With Terrlhle Kraulte. Toulon, March 7. The naval magazine maga-zine of La Goubran, between La Seyne and Toulon, in the department of war, southern France, exploded Sunday morning. All of the soldiers on duty at the magazine were killed and a number of inhabitants of the district, the buildings of which were razed, also fell victims. Forty corpses have already been recovered. The cause of the explosion is not known. Fifty thousand kilogrammes of black powder exploded. It looks as though a volcanic eruption had occurred, the country being swept almost bare within with-in a radius of two miles, houses destroyed, des-troyed, trees overturned and fields devastated and covered with stones and impalpable black dust. Some of the stones are enormous. One weighing weigh-ing fifty kilogrammes fell in thesuburb of Tone de Las. Signs of-the explosion are evident in all the Buburbs of Toulon and in the city itself. Even at St. Jean de Var, five miles distant, windows were shattered shat-tered and doors battered in. Later reports show that of the seven sentries, four were killed outright and the others severely injured. It is now believed that tho explosion originated in chemical decomposition in smokeless powder. There is no suggestion sug-gestion of foul play. |