BLASTING ACCIDENT.
YOUNG MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Woodvilee, Feb. 18
A terrible accident happened to a young man named Fred Kemp, son of Mr E. Kemp, at Kumeroa, yesterday afternoon. He was engaged blasting logs in a paddock and had just finished a charge. Before the fuse was fixed an explosion occurred. Kemp was standing on the log at the time, and received the full force. His hair and clothes took fire, and he only had enough energy to rush to the swamp and roll in the water, but before he got the fire out he was terribly burned about the body. At present he is lying in a neighbour’s house in a very bad way. Kemp has no knowledge how the charge went off, but it is
surmised he was smoking at the time and a spark dropped on the powder.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 814, 19 February 1910, Page 2
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141BLASTING ACCIDENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 814, 19 February 1910, Page 2
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