AH EXPLOSION ON BOARD SHIP.
(By Telograph.—Press Association.)
Auckland, Thursday, The particulars of the explosion on the barque Wairaea, from Wellington to Boston with a cargo of flax, show that it started through rockets and the powder magazine catching alight. The poop-deck was blown up and the oabin demolished, A boy named Clements was blown out of existence, and was never seen again, Captain Weston Buffered terribly, and had his head, face, and hands burnt, and was blind for over a week. An nble seaman named Wilson had his thigh dislocated and ribs broken, The man at the wheel had a natrow escape from death.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4470, 14 July 1893, Page 2
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105AH EXPLOSION ON BOARD SHIP. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4470, 14 July 1893, Page 2
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