FEARFUL EXPLOSION
THREE WORKERS KILLED ONE FLUNG 200 FEET (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) ADELAIDE, Sunday. A terirfic explosion occurred in the Waterfall Gully quaryr, scattering 100 tons of earth far and wide. It killed three men, Frederick Bowroji, aged 46, a married man; Francisco Carnemolia, aged 25, a married man, and Charles Lorimer, aged 24, a single man. A fourth man was injured. Carnemolla was hurled nearly 200 ft through the air and crashed against a fence, and his face was terribly injured. Lorimer was buried under a heap of dirt. Bowron was blown off a cliff and crushed under the falling showers of stone. The workmen had prepared a charge, to explode at noon, but through some unknown reason it went off three hours earlier.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 597, 25 February 1929, Page 9
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126FEARFUL EXPLOSION Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 597, 25 February 1929, Page 9
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