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Show BLEW UP THE SHIP FRENCH BATTLESHIP DESTROYED DESTROY-ED BV EXPLOSION OF MAGAZINES MAGA-ZINES IN TOULON HARBOR. Thre Other Warships Are Badly Damaged, Over 310 Men Meeting Death as Result of Accident Almost Al-most Without Precedent. Toulon Franre More Hum a".1 of fliers nml men of the I n n -li luillle nhlp Liberie butt ih. tr bu n M .inlay when the nhlp wns tniu apart mid to Hilly distroted In Iho harlior hero, by an explosion of In r maxaln's The bnlllenhlp Itepiihlluun wan badly dninaited. and tho liiiilbnhlpa liemo-rratle liemo-rratle and Vorlie auffor.-d heavily Irom tho masses of twisted Iron nn.l armor plate hurled up .n Iholr dr. kn, 1 l.lw la tho rrentrst ill.ai.trr Hint has ever befallen tho Frenrh navy, and In miiKiiltiulo Is nlmnnt wlthmit lirc-rilent In tho anu.ila of Ihe wnr. ls flxhlltix ships The rxilnhn oriiirml nt r.:.".J o'. lo. k In tho mornltiK. It wns Hi" result of nn outbreak of tiro. The flatties spread rapidly In spite of all eflnrfn to tevtiuxuinh them, ' and l. ai-he.l the miiKalii. s lu foro thorn was time to flood them. I'ho tuiiKa-xinea tuiiKa-xinea i-xpln.led with t re no'iiiloun vltt-Irli.e. vltt-Irli.e. sowIiik death mid dent run Ion In every dlrertlun. While the naval nuthorltloa entl-mnte entl-mnte the killed at :tou. It la feared thin Urine will bo ex. red. .1 II will ho nerrnnary to ten through the ship's tinist.r rolls, a tank of days, before a full list of the vltt lilts rim bo pie-pnred. pie-pnred. Fxa.'tly from what inline or when the fire broke out has nut I n nicer- tallied, but II la believed It had been miouhlorfuK for hums (If the ves-sola ves-sola full . .implement of 712 men, t'upliilll Juarrn. brother of the Sorlal Int leader, and the m rnml offl. or In lommaud. wore laith urh ire on Imvo. an also wire Hn of the otTurrn i.u-l men. The n.liiinat.d of tho ship devolved de-volved on the senior llrulenant, who perltthed. |