Johannesburg Rocked By Mighty Dynamite Explosion
TWO SQUARE MILES DEVASTATED (United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright ) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 2.20 p.m. JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday. THE entire city was shaken by a terrific explosion of dynamite at mid-day to-day. Scores of houses were rendered uninhabitable and many families homeless for the night. The railway system was torn up for one hundred yards. There were no casualties. Eleven tons of dynamite in two railway trucks exploded at Canada Junction, devastating an area of two square miles, and making a crater 150 feet in circumference and 10 feet deep. The explosion was due to the collision of two trucks containing 310 cases of dynamite. There were amazing escapes, for though many hundreds of Europeans and natives were in the vicinity nobody was injured.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 451, 5 September 1928, Page 9
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