THE COBAR MINE EXPLOSION.
A TREMENDOUS CONCUSSION. GROUND SHOOK LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE. Received January 28, 11 a.m. , SYDNEY, January 28. At the explosion of the magazine of the Great Cobar mine the flames leapt fifty or sixty feet in the air, and the ground shook like an earthquake. Not a stone in the magazine was left standing, everything being scattered over a radius of half a r.iile. A flying stone knocked the machine from under a cyclist, and a man had his head cut with a missile. No other accidents are reported. It is supposed the cause of the explosion was spontaneous combustion.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9042, 29 January 1908, Page 5
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103THE COBAR MINE EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9042, 29 January 1908, Page 5
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