Boiler Explosion m WELLINGTON.
■_ (UNITED -PRESS ASSOCIATION ._- --<J lU-8 a .WjBMJKQTo» r September 11. j ApJMtep Oisedv for) the purpose of .^eWvinftA^wood-cutting- machhie, at S. s wood and coal yard, Tor j Street, explode^afone-o'clockthw afternoon.. The*Con<roSsi° n w«s felt; over a; greater portion, of the town. The shed m which the'We^iif litu«ited is wrecked, andlarge sheets of~ corrugated iron were carried 0 into neighboring "yards some distance awayy , A horse, standing wifhW^WyardVof the explosion, escaped injury, but a cart was twisted viooiibSntj^ngiaerably, one, wheel being wrenched off and the other damaged , which renders it unfit for üße, the boiler Itself is a -mass of broken iron plates beiagtorn as i if they were brown paper • and some of the heavy parts n ere lifted « J " fi |o the opposite side, of the yard but for* tunately no person hurt. A woman was m the yard packing_np wood at the * '*''iirtie)f bnfr beyond fright she received no i»jttw,it*e>;nianager:ancl] .one of jthe workmen was; in;^the shed adjoining taking dinner when the accident occurred and theyin^no way oan account for 'the explosion. '* A x number of windows were imasc^d V
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 240, 12 September 1883, Page 3
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187Boiler Explosion in WELLINGTON. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 240, 12 September 1883, Page 3
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