A Dangerous Experiment
• Several persohs^recently, a corre-" Mspbndeat states, Were making experiments at.Pembreyi Carmarthenshire^ : with dynamite in- a- tarn among ;the - lulls, "when an incident occurred which ■ nearly put an end to the whole party and such spectators also as were present. A charge of dynaiuite* had a ... five minutes' fuse attached to it and was -thrown into the water— the: power of the explosive to be judged by the . Volume of water forced up by the; explosion. While the operations were proceeding, a sportsman, accompanied by his dog, appeared, and as the charge was thrown into the. lake • the ' ft^maJ . sprang into the water and seized the cartridge, which it quickly brought ashore. The sportsman ' called to the dog to drop., it, but the fiTiimai ran .im the direction of its master,], and', the. experimentalists immediately made off , the dog being kept at a distance by its master , and others; with a continuous shower of stones; At 'the end of five minutes' the charge exploded, and the: poor jfaiihai was blewn to pieceo, its master i .aiui'iriendS; narrowly escaping with : 'their lives. • t - ; ~.. , ... ';. _l-
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 69, 19 November 1885, Page 3
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185A Dangerous Experiment Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 69, 19 November 1885, Page 3
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