THREE KILLED.
Terrific Explosion Scatters j Tons Of Earth. MAN HURLED 200 FEET AWAY.; > i i ——— 1 ADELAIDE, February 24. I A terrific explosion occurred in the ; Waterfall Gully quarry, scattering 100 ' ton 3 of earth far and wide. It killed : three men, Frederick Bowron, aged 46. I a married man; Franeisco Carnemolla. i aged 2-5, a married man, and Charles ; Lorimer, aged 24. a single man. A fourth man was injured. Carnemolla wa3 hurled nearly 200 ft through the air and crashed against a . fence. His face was terribly injured. : Lorimer was buried under a heap of i dirt. I Bowron was blown off a cliff aud I crushed under the falling showers of 1 stone. j The workmen had prepared a charge jto explode at noon, but through some j unknown reason it went off three hours j earlier.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 47, 25 February 1929, Page 7
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