People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — Charge Exploded Prematurely. [ARTICLE]

Charge Exploded Prematurely.

Toulon, July 24.—Further particulars regarding the accident at a gun trial at Bouvines show that Admiral Chateau Minios, Lieutenant Espinassy and another officer and several sailors were watching the trials of the Hotchkiss gun whe\i a charge exploded as it was being Inserted in the breach of one of the pieces. Lieutenant Espinassy's jaw was blown off and he was otherwise wounded. One sailor was killed, and the admiral and the third officer present, as well aS several sailors, were slightly injured.