FATAL DYANMITE EXPLOSION. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
Blenheim, Monday. A fatal explosion of dynamite took place at Opawa river on Saturdny afternoon. Two men engaged in removing a snag were coining away after placing a (u-o beneath it, and when at a diitanco of only five yard*, the explosion took plact*. Both were blown out of the boat, and on»\ Win, Eden, a married man with two children, was stunned and drowned. His body was recovered. The other man clung to the boat, and Wats got out in a half conscious state*.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 12 January 1886, Page 2
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92FATAL DYANMITE EXPLOSION. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 12 January 1886, Page 2
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