ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, this day.
A married man named Paul Rodgers, aged 30, was blasting a stump with a charge of gelignite, in the Seaward Bush, on Saturday, and after firing the fuse took cover behind his house. His wife found him shortly after the explosion lying insensible with a fracture of the skull.
It is presumed that he put his head round the corner to sec the explosion, and was struck by a flying lump of wood. . He died later in the hospital.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 171, 20 July 1903, Page 5
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