A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION.
The Power of Dynamite. Press Association.—Copyright. • New York, March 4; The explosion of a store of dynamite injured 20 workmen on the Pennsylvania railway in a tunnel under the river in New York. The shock was felt a distance of GO miles.
London, March 4,
The Daily Mail states that the explosion violently shook the entire area of Greater New York. One Italian was killed. He dropped some hot ashes on a case of dynamite which, igniting, spread to the magazine at the mouth of the tunnel containing a hundred tons of explosives. Hundreds of workmen in the tunnel had a marvellous escape. An enormous hole was torn in the ground and dozens of buildings were wrecked.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8756, 5 March 1907, Page 2
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120A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8756, 5 March 1907, Page 2
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