Fatal Explosion on Board Ship
A BOY BLOWN TO PIECES. (PBB rBEBS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, This Day. Particulars of the explosion on board the t argue Waimea, hound from Wellington to Bostou, with flax, shows that it Parted through the rocket and powder magazine catching alight. The poop dock was blown up, and the cabin de» molished. A boy named Clements was blown out of existence. Captaiu Weston suffered terribly. He had bis head, face, and hands burned, and was blind for a week. A seaman namod Wilson had his thigh dislocated, aud several ribs broken. The man at tho wheel at a narrow escape from doath.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 11, 13 July 1893, Page 2
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106Fatal Explosion on Board Ship Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 11, 13 July 1893, Page 2
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