EXPLOSION IN TENT
CONTRACTOR KILLED DRYING POWDER ON FIRE Press Association DANNEVIRKE, Today. After an explosion in his tent this morning Michael Culloty, a roading contractor, staggered out, cried “I’m done!” and collapsed and died before a doctor could be brought to him. .Culloty was sitting on his bed in the tent while a quantity of blasting material was drying on a fire beside him. Suddenly it exploded with a terrific roar, terribly wounding Culloty. He died within five minutes. He leaves a wife and four children.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 1
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87EXPLOSION IN TENT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 1
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