Show SHIP BLEW UP had on board five hundred of powder tunis june 6 A turkish sailing saling vessel laden with contraband ammunition and bound for tripoli has been blown up in ill the tile vicinity of port zar ziss her iler entire crew as well as eighty fishermen who were alongside at the time were drowned I 1 tho the vessel had on board a number of rifles and barrels of powder the local authorities learned that sho was about to take ad advantage a of the absence of the guard ships to try to ilis disembark embark her cargo on tho the beach they thereupon or deredi a number of armed boats belonging to sponge fish ers to prevent the landing twenty four of these boats went ou out t and surrounded the vessel and the men from them were just about to 0 swarm aboard when a terrific explosion occurred it Is believed the captain fired his ills vessel to avoid capture A majority of the sponge boats went down with the vessel the explosion was heard for a distance of sixty miles zar ziss is in tunis near tile frontier of tripoli |