RECORD EXPLOSION
34 TRUCKS OF DYNAMITE. ' 8 PERSONS KILLED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) {Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) CAPETOWN, July 17. Probably the greatest explosion in peace history, occurred at Leeundoornstad, near Klerksdorp, Transvaal, when the largest single consignment of dynamite ever parried, contained in thirtyfour trucks, blew up in one blinding (flash. Eight persons were killed, but the driver and fireman miraculously escaped, and the locomotive is undamaged. A. , trench, fifteen feet deep, and three hundred yards long was made in the permanent way. A number of houses in a village were badly damaged, but fortunately 'it was not thickly populated. .Jk
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1932, Page 6
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105RECORD EXPLOSION Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1932, Page 6
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