GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 30, 4 February 1913, Page 9

GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.

PARCEL IX A SULKY. <By Telegraph.—Owu Correspondent.) PAERO A, this day. A Tonne nran named D. Shehan met *lth a serious accident at Paeroa on Saturday evening last. He had purtnased four pounds of gunpowder along with several other articles, and had them to a sulky in which he was driving to jus home on the Te Aroba road. Shee™a had to drive past several fires which w «re burning alongside the road, and a spark alighted on the parcel of gunpowjta\ which immediately exploded. Shee- "" was vny badly "burned about the °°Ay, urms and face by the explosion, Md ak clothes ignited, iad were soon a oi Sames. With great presence of ssnd the cnfortunate man jumped into a <utch containing a little water, and by so doing saved himself from being burned to death. Although suffering great pain. th n J ana £ ed to unharness thehorse from ' Jr* eomintj sulky, and to extinguish the on the sulky. He then made his to ilr. W. Emmetfs house, which . Ma r by, and arrived there in an ; ™ lauste <i condition. Dr. G. T. Smith I f™moned, and attended to the suf- ; fer «-s burns.