BLOWN TO ATOMS.
WOMAN'S AWFUL FATE Hurled from Car Loaded With : Explosives. SUVA HORROR. ited p A -Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 12.80 p.m.) , ;; SUVA, this day. a shocking- tragedy occurred last tm'cf at the Nasinu stonecrusher . ; 5£V Sabben, the Government ■ febanical engineer, and jus wife] had arrived with explosives and stores in: his car- < Mr Sabben had just left the car and j ■mite or .two later an awful explo- , ITS? heart. The manager of the icrußher, Mr. Elliott,, was then ap- , Tachin" the car and both men were thrown violently to the ground, escaping , serious injury. The "round in the vicinity was covered ' Jh tfny pieces of flesh and bone, and : £ SabWs mangled head and upper SJlders were found three chains away fveKa creek. Clothing was -.wrapped Iwnrf the windscreen of the car, which C found yards away. Two feet, cut S at the ankles, were found at a distance of 60 yards. The car had contained 501b of gelignite 200 detonators and a'quantity of -henzine. The cause of the explosion is mystery The deceased was a daughJ e 7 of .Mr.. White, a Woolwich leather merchant.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 7
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187BLOWN TO ATOMS. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 17 June 1930, Page 7
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