BLASTING ACCIDENT.
ONE MAN KILLED AND THREE INJURED.
Dunedin, May 9,
While working at the north end I of the Chain Hills tunnel, putting in gelignite plugs, one of the employees, Harry Smith, received such injuries as proved almost instantly fatal. It appeared that Smith was putting in the plugs, and another employee, Charles Gardiner, was pushing them home, when from some unaccountable cause a premature explosion took place. Smith received the lull force of the charge in .the face. Gardiner was knocked about a bit on the arms and breast, while two others, Baker and J. Hutchison, received minor injuries.
Smith was a single man, and resided with his mother at Rockyside, Caversham, He was about thirty-two or thirty-three years old.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1095, 10 May 1913, Page 3
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122BLASTING ACCIDENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1095, 10 May 1913, Page 3
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