TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Eight Killed When Dynamite Train Blows Up.
TRAGEDY IN SOUTH AFRICA,
(Received 12 noon.) CAPETOWN, July 17. Probably the greatest explosion in peace-time history occurred at Lecundoorostad, near Klerksdorp, Transvaal, when the largest single consignment of dynamite ever carried, contained in 34 trucks, blew up in one blinding flash. Eight persons were killed, but the driver and fireman miraculously escaped. The locomotive was undamaged. A trench 15 feet deep and 300 yards long was made in the permanent way. A number of houses in a nearby village were badly damaged, but fortunately it was not tniekly populated.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 168, 18 July 1932, Page 7
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