INTE R PROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS.
(Per Press Agency.) j ..,! GrßEYjli6ui'Hj August 25. i An explosion o.f gas took place yesterday in the shaft ttfe Greyinohth Coal Company, Three men were seriously injured. There were three men at tile bottom of the shaft. The first intimation of the accident was a sheet of flame coming from the shaft, j which severely burned a man on the top, and tHe poppet-heads. Immediately means -were tkk'eu to rescue the three below, who ,it was feared were killed. On descending they Vere. found alive. One man .was comparatively uninjured. The .other two were severely burned.'; ohe 'had both arhls broken. THey were taldh to the hospital. The name of the injured ; inen are "Crawford, Kerr, and Hassal. .Later. ' There were four men injured by the explosion. ( They were all taken to . the hospital, where one of them, J. Kerr died this morning. ( The others are in a very, dangerous state. The explosion was caitse.d.by a slight flame from the fuse on which a ragged edge had been left while being lighted with a hot iron. The shot which was fired at the time also exploded. T .. We'stport, Angust 25. There was an outbreak of fire at the Empire Hotel early this morning, which was promptly suppressed.
THE AKXROA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1877.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 116, 28 August 1877, Page 3
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218INTERPROVINCIAL TELEGRAMS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 116, 28 August 1877, Page 3
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