DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
(lIV Kr.KI'TKK! Tl.'l.KOK.trii.— COI'VKIOJIT). New York, December 29. Willi,E some persons were engaged thawing frozen dynamite cartridges bi fore a fire in a tunnel in course, of construction on Long Tsland an explosion occurred, destroying the tunnel anil wrecking the post office. Houses within a radius of a milo were severely shaken, the furniture beincr injured and almost all the windows broken. A .seaman and three women wera killed, while eighteen other persons were injure I. o:ie man lying on a sofa had his throat cut by falling glass, and instances are mentioned where others lost, their arms or had their eyes gouged out.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3201, 31 December 1892, Page 2
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106DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3201, 31 December 1892, Page 2
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