Apparently every one of the 120 or more men employed in the new arsenal outside the east gate of the city was either killed or very badly burned in the terrific explosion which occurred this afternoon. Not a single man in this recently opened munition plant seems to have escaped without injury. Of the 50 or 60 men who have arrived at the St. James's Hospital here none are able to give any account of what happened, in fact most of them are burned beyond any possibility of identification except by the few shreds of charred garments that hung to some of them. In many cases skin as well as clothing was burned completely from their bodies.
The long line of spectral forms blackened and bleeding, riding rieshas \through the narrow streets, which began to arrive at the compound gate about two o'clock, was the first intimation that the hospital had of the accident. The whole staff of doctors and nurses as well as other foreigners set to work at once, but in spite of every means employed already 17 have ied.
Twenty or 30 mien crazed with This tragedy in a remote part of the country among an innocent and peace-loving people marks another phase in the sad story of the military occupation of China.
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