FATAL MISCHIEF

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 862, 4 January 1930, Page 1

FATAL MISCHIEF

PLAYING CHILDREN CAUSE OWN DEATHS FIRE IN EMPTY DRUM United P.A.—By Telegraph-Copyright Reed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Children who were playing on the line at the railway depot at Holloway Road, lit a Are under an empty 50gallon drum. A terrific explosion shook the district. Three small boys were killed and four seriously injured. VICTIMS FLUNG ALOFT . THREE BROTHERS KILLED Reed. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Friday., “It looked as though somebody had flung a bomb,” said Thomas Chaliis, in describing the scene when lie rushed up to help the boys who were killed and injured by the explosion of a petrol drum. “Eight arms were stretched out, and the boys were lying in a circle about the flaming drum. Two were dead. The part of one’s face was blown away. Another was 25 yards distant: An eye-witness s@.id he saw something that looked like a big doll flung into the air. 1 1. canto down with a thud, and he saw it wa@ a boy, lying apart from the others. ‘ He died in hospital. Christopher Sthart found his seven-year-old son dead. He nevertheless assisted in the ambulance work. ' Five other boys, aged between five and ten years, were injured. These include three brothers.