Experience through an Electrophone.
Through the medium of an electrophone a gentleman, who reiidea at Bedhill, had the unique experience of jheariag at a distance of twentyfear mjlei the explosion in Maryleboft* JtotbyUrian Church v on the 7th November. " Confined to the houft by a cold," he writes, " I tamed on my electrophone, and was - v following the service attentively, V whmall of a sadden I haard a bang i followed by screams, ehouti and general oonfusion, the minister's 'voice being occasionally heard amidst it all trying to restore order. I spetdily rtalised that I was witness to a panic by telephone — I' suppose the first case of the kind that has e»er happened — a man twenty-four imiles off so excited by tha panic as Wto hay« his heart almost stand still. * when Tread the account of the ex / plosion in the papers on Mondaj A evening. I found there was only one || feature I had not fully recounted to hs.. my family on Sunday, and that was M, the demise cloud of vapour that filled pi the church."
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Manawatu Herald, 13 January 1898, Page 3
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179Experience through an Electrophone. Manawatu Herald, 13 January 1898, Page 3
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