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Show Ull I OIL TANK EXPLODES INJURING 20 II PORTSMOUTH, Eng., Dec. 12. Commander Herbert N. Garnett of the naval ordnance department, four engineer en-gineer officers and fifteen of tho crow of tho dreadnaught battleship Orion were injured today as tho result of tho explosion of an oil tank. Tho Orion Is lying on one of tho basins at tho dock yards, where sho is being completed for commission She is fitted for the consumption of both oil fuel and coal. All of the victims were badly burned or scalded on their faces and hands. Sixteen of the victims wero in such a serious condition that they had to be taken to the hospital. |