SHOP GELIGNITED
terrific explosion in QUEENSLAND TOWN PLACE BLOWN TO PIECES Peed. 9.40 a.m. BRISBANE, Today. A terrific explosion at Mackay a two-storeyed city shop. The bricks were piled in heaps, along with beams. The walls were splintered •fcd left in dangerous positions. A hole four feet in diameter was tom in the f o p floor, and the roof t°PPled over. The shop was not occupied at the time. No oue was injured. A suspicion that the explosion was otused by a charge of gelignite was Confirmed when the police discovered Plugs and a fuse among the ruins.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 667, 20 May 1929, Page 9
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99SHOP GELIGNITED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 667, 20 May 1929, Page 9
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