AN UNPRECEDENTED ACCIDENT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1422, 2 December 1886, Page 3

AN UNPRECEDENTED ACCIDENT.

One would lu.v? thought it impossible that tii-re shoo'd be an unprecedented aooid-nt ; but it is raid that the cat e'ropho rn Loch Kj no, by which seven perrons lost -heir lives recently, has m ver occurred htf re. It has been the custom of the bailies < f Glasgow to attend the annual “monster blast,,” in tie gre-t Crarae Quarries on tba* loch, and this tho custom wsa <.b-orved. ■'-'even tins of p-wder were- fi ed at once, dislodging. it is telGved, sum--. 89 000 tons of granite, and, after the stone h d fallen, t - e visit err sfrnll-d info tho qa rides to see the result. b’oruo SCO ladies aod get t tmoti were standing about talking, when one after soother was observed to fall apparently dead, till nearly a hundred bodies were etro chod on ifia stono They were at once earned out by tho quarrymen ; but it via found that seven we e dead, at d that thirty more we e more rr loss injured a few s> varely The visitors had been a-pbyxirted y the eu'pburius vapor c used by the blast, the 1 honesamong ihem feeling it first and nn at s vere'y. Th< ss who died, died instantly, one 'i Hiss, win fat't d hut reovoted, tist fil'd that 'he sensation was “ rather p'--sa»nt t‘u-11 pvnful ” No blame attache? to anyone, the vapor having h-en retailed longer than usual by the lu rs, rh, « s' a e of the quat ry.