p. 9 | Casualties

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 26.

Casualties

Casualties.—Six men were blown to pieces by an explosion of lyddite at the lyddite factory of the Woolwich Arsenal, England, on June 18, and the factory was completely wrecked........ Eleven sailors perished in the wreck of the Belgian steamer Rubens in the North Sea on June 10........ Six men were killed and a score or more injured by the explosion of 3,000 pounds of dynamite near Senecaville, Ohio, on June 20. The dynamite was exploded by lightning........ One hundred and fifty Chinese lost their lives in the burning of a temple recently at Pingtu, China. The worshipers were burning a quantity of incense paper, which set fire to the building, blocking the exit........ Ten persons were killed and a number injured in a railway collision at Raymond, Iowa, on June 19........ Two persons were killed and twenty-eight shockingly injured in a wreck on the North Shore Railroad near Point Reyes, Cal., on June 21, while returning from a funeral on a special train.