The Dynamite Explosion at Johannesberg.
(Per Press Association) Pretoria. Feb. 22. The quantity of dynamite which exploded was fifty tons, and had stood in the sun for days. The estimated damage is a million sterling. The Netherlands Railway Coy., it is said, is liable. A huge hospital is arranged in which to treat the wounded. Race feuds are foxgotton in face of the calamity. The Cape Farmers Congress' expression of warm sympathy with the Uitlanders in not having a redress of grievance, is regarded as a menace to peace. The Queen has sent a massage, expressing sympathy with the sufferers in recent dynamite explosion. Capetown, February 22. During the explosion a red hot bolt from one of the trucks fell into a magazine on the Rand containing 400 tons of dynamite, but by the greatest good fortune it dropped into a pail of water.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 198, 24 February 1896, Page 2
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