STARTLING FATAL ACCIDENT.
■ o:o Killed by His Own Ingenuity.
[per PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] Received this day at 10 57 a.m, Sydney, This Day.
Allsopp, the well-known civil engineer, was conducting experiments at a foundry at Newcastle, with his now turbine, which is calculated to drive a steamship sixty miles an hour with a speed fifteen thousand revolutions, and with a pressure of 120 pounds. The new invention had just reached ten thousand revolutions, when the outer casing burst into fragments and flew in all directions.
Allsopp was struck on the left temple, and instantaneously killed. The assistant and twenty workmen had some remarkablo escapes.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 October 1901, Page 3
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104STARTLING FATAL ACCIDENT. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 October 1901, Page 3
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