MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION.
* \ WOMAN'S NARROW E9OAPIE. By Telegraph.—Per Press Association. lavercargili, Last Night. R, A : . Mullan, a farmer of Underwood, stowed fifteen pounds of gelignite in a tlied adjacent to his homestead. His wife went to get some wheat from the shed far the fovrls, and while distributing it a terrifia explosion occurred. The shed was completely shattered, little of it remaining, and many of the fowls being killed, and pieces of timber 'being picked up several chains away. Every window in the dwelling was brokrti, and tile end of the house blown in. Mullan, who was in one of tho looms, was 'thrown to tho floor while other members received a severe shaking. By miraculous means, Mrs. Mullan, who was witlhin a few feet of the scene of tlie explosion, escaped ,excepting for a few minor bruista caused by her being thrown to the earth. A bicycle in the shed is now a twisted mass of i'ron. A pinup waa broken in half, one portion being missing. The cause of the explosion is a complete mystery.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 26 November 1914, Page 4
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176MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 26 November 1914, Page 4
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