INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2203, 21 August 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.

A remarkable dynamite experiment is reported in the Amerieau paper?, says the St James's Budget ;— " Colonel Hoblitzer, ot bukcannon County, W. Va , expert iron and steel chemist, representative in Pittsburg of the Atlantic Iron Company of Wheeling, placed a charge of dynamite under a ten-ton iron anvil in a vacant lot opposite the Republican Iron Works on the 14th of May, He lit the fuse and re tired. A nunent later the whole country around, up and down and across the Monongahela River, eernud and received the mighty reverberation of a scries of quickly succeeding sharp reports. A whole block was covered with fragments of the anvil, and the excitement among the people of the neighbourhood for a time was intense, James Acton, who was standing in front of his stable door was struck on the leg by a !."> lb piece of iron, and painfully injured. The pieces ot iron which varied in weight from 40011)3 to 2o lbs, rose obliquely to a height sometimes of 150 ft, some falling ou vacant lots and others striking against the roofs and sides of houses, crushing through to the living apartments. Mr-> Crmkshank and her husband who live on Edward-alley, were in the kitchen when the explosion occured. Mrs Cruikehauk had just stepped from the stove to the coal- box for fuel when a piece of iron weighing 2501bs crashed through a baking oven, situated ten feet from the kitchen, knocked the side out of the kitchen, and landed in the middle of the door. Two inches to the right and it would have struck Mrs Cruiokshank. In the house of Joseph Lott, ot Sydney .street, a baby lay asleep in the bed in the front upstairs room. A 1201b fragment ot the anvil knocked a post from the bed on which the baby lay. The carpet was torn up and two chain were reduced to splinters At the residence of Mr Kniil Krrzwein, at Twenty-sivth and Sydmy streets, a Tolb piece crashed straight t') the bed in which tlio two boy-* were sleeping. The damage will reach several thousand • lollais and will be paid by Colonel Hoblitzer. "