DISASTROUS BOILER EXPLOSION.
TWO DRIVERS KILLED. SEVERAL PASSENGERS SEVERELY T.NJURED. Received November 11, 6.42 p.m. SYDNEY, November 11. A disastrous steam tramway boiler explosion occurred at Concord. It appears that two trams pulled up for the purpose of exchanging staffs, when suddenly the boiler of one of the engines exploded with a deafening roar. The force of the explosion blew the engine's tank thirty yards away. McCullough, the driver of one engine, was killed instantly, and Barclay, driver of the other, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. One of the conductors and several passengers were severely scalded. Two of the latter have been removed to the hospital. FURTHER PARTICULARS. DRIVER'S HEAD BLOWN OFF. Received November 12, 12.5 a.m. SYDNEY, November 11. McCullough, the driver of the enigne on which the explosion occurred, was shockingly mutilated. His head was found thirty yards from the sfene of the accident. The other driver was blown a distance of seventy yards, and one passenger wts hurled twenty yards away. The engine which blew up was splintered to fragments.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8878, 12 November 1907, Page 5
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175DISASTROUS BOILER EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8878, 12 November 1907, Page 5
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