TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
4 A MAN AND 1 MATCH.- . The residents of Brisbane were recently .by "a-'terrific'explosion,iipUowcd-v;-: bytjiis rittle of: }windowsland crockery. -.. ■It . was a. considerable time before any. explanation 6-f-;-the : occurrence - . was ..forth- ( , doming, but; eventually it .transpired: that; an explosion ' had>. occurred.'on..\a:, small,-,! ■;'.:. barge lying " off AVynnum, a.;waterings place, ten. miles from the city.. ."' The Harbours-;and-R-iyers- Department . ' ,
were icarrviii-g out -improvementa-, to the sea front, and a small magazine-, barge was'anchored close by,-, m'wiiich -.- . i' plosives;were'stored. .v-.-'.'.-'-'-- ' -.■ ■■:- Ono of the employees visited .the barg« ; - for the purpose, of. taking away a quaa- • • : tity of golignite. for.:blast) ; nj;.:: He;:was;m::.,: tlie : act of lighting a lamp' when: tlievhead;; of the match fell off and dropped into a. quantity: of. inflammableUmateriol.'W He ' • ;: rushed away fromjthe;scene and.managed v-: to gel; under: -■wards a\Herriisc'j&plo^ion."fpllo.Wy;iThe. : magazine was blcivn'fo pieces, debris'bp- , . ,ing hurled-'in'all ':^-:;n; wosthV wrect'.of'the magazino, :: /
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 949, 17 October 1910, Page 8
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141TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 949, 17 October 1910, Page 8
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