BLOWN TO ATOMS
HOUSES WRECKED TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. Dynamite Crash Devastates Johannesburg. NO LIVES LOST. (United Service.) (Received 2.30 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, September 1. The entire city was shaken by a terrific explosion of dynamite at midday. Scores of houses have been rendered uninhabitable and families are homeless. The railway system has been torn up for 100 yards. There were no casualties. Eleven £ons of dynamite, in two railway trucks, exploded at Canada Junction, devastating an area of two square miles and making a crater 150 feet in circumference and ten feet deep. The explosion was due to the collision of two trucks containing 310 eases of dynamite. There were amazing escapes for, though many hundreds of Europeans and natives were in the vicinity, nobody has been injured.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 210, 5 September 1928, Page 9
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126BLOWN TO ATOMS Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 210, 5 September 1928, Page 9
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