A FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
SEVENTY PERSONS KILLED.
(Recoived January 17,11.80 a.m.) Wasiiikoijox, January 16. st A gunpowder oar on the railway M line at Bietto, in itloutana, exploded * with fearfnl resullis, The city received three distinct shocks, the sensation being sirail ar to a very sharp shock of earthquake. The death roll, jin connection with the accident, is v ery large, seventy being killed instalntly, and over one hundred injured.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4923, 17 January 1895, Page 2
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69A FEARFUL EXPLOSION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4923, 17 January 1895, Page 2
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