FIRE GRATE EXPLOSION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 826, 21 November 1929, Page 16

FIRE GRATE EXPLOSION

WOMAN RECEIVES EIGHT WOUNDS SERIOUSLY INJURED Press Association DUNK DIN'. Wednesday. Serious injuries were received by Mrs. R. I’. Douglas, of 20 Warden Street, Opoho, when an explosion occurred in a fire grate. Mrs. was sitting in front of the dining-room fire about six o'clock iti the evening, when there vas a deafening explosion. The fire crate was completely blown out, and Mrs. Douglas fell to the floor with i ieht more or less serious wounds in the head and body. A doctor was summoned, and it was found that Mrs. Dourlas had four wounds in the head, one under each eye, and one bad one on the temple, three in the arm. and one very serious one in the leg. Sub--tance of a coppery character, something like a piece of a detonator cap. !>' netrated three inches into the leg Mrs. Douglas is still confined to bed. Mr. Douglas said it was impossible to say what the exact nature of the • xploslve was. His wife hud been badly hurt, and might have been killed. The ceiling and walls of the room suffered some minor damage, and the grate was blown out.