PREMATURE EXPLOSION
YOUNG MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED.
By Telegraph.—Press' Association. Woodville, Friday. A terrible accident happened to a young man named Fred Kemp, son of Mr. E. Kemp, at Kumeroa, yesterday afternoon. The sufferer was engaged blasting logs in a paddock. He' had just finished a charge, but before .the -fuse was fixed an explosion occurred. Kemp was standing on a log at the time, and received the full force of the explosion. His hair was badly I singed, and his clothes caught oil fire. He only had enough energy to.rush to a swamp and roll in the water, but before he got the fire out he was terribly burned about the body. At present he is lying at the house of a neighbour (Bryant) in a very bad way.Kemp has no knowledge how the charge went off. It is .surmised that he was smoking at the time, and tint a spark dropped on to the powder.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 319, 19 February 1910, Page 8
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156PREMATURE EXPLOSION Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 319, 19 February 1910, Page 8
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