ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
THE GELIGNITE FATALITY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Westport, Monday. Search of the river beaches, and dragging over a distance of nine miles between the scene of the accident and Westport, failed to reveal any signs of the remains of Corby and Lowe. In addition to other fragments, a portion of a human skull, Corby's tobacco box, anil pieces of braces were found on the. ground below the course of track through the bush made by the remains being hurled five hundred feet from the blast towards the river. How the premature explosion actually occurred is a mystery. There are sev-.' era I theories, but experienced men say there can be no certainty. A workman named Henderson, who was seven or eight feet above the blast on a sideline, was uninjured, it is thought Lowe was blown to fragments, but that the greater portion of Corby's body reached the river.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 81, 26 September 1911, Page 5
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151ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 81, 26 September 1911, Page 5
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