AN EXPLOSION.
MAN BADLY INJURED-WONDER-FUL VITALITY.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night.
A man named Jack Osborne was seriously injured by an explosion of dynamite to-day. He was working on a road contract at Kawatau. When putting in the charge of blast paper the explosion was premature. He was on a ledge of eighteen inches and had a drop of a hundred feet, but after being injured walked back with his clothes on fire.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 345, 20 February 1902, Page 2
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74AN EXPLOSION. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 345, 20 February 1902, Page 2
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