DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
. . SEVEN MEN KILLED. OTHERS FATALLY INJURED. (Received This Morning, 1 o'clock NEW YORK, February 2. A,quantity of dynamite exploded u a New York suburban pier. x Seven men were killed, seven fatal ly injured, and fifteen-a re unaccounted for. '.■'. The whole city was shaken. A lighter engaged in loading explosives vanished entirely. !•■;..'■ A second lighter sank, and two'imeli were drowned. A British barquentine wa3 stripped of her rigging and several -sailpis were killed on the deck. A second car, filled with dynamit*;, had its roof blown off, but the dynamite did not cxplodea One hundred feet "of .the end of tl!> peer-was demolished.' An engine-driver was blown off tlk footpath and killed in the fall. Several men were blown into tbe haibour, but were rescued.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10155, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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127DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10155, 3 February 1911, Page 5
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