SHOCKING ACCIDENT.
(Per Press Association.) Woodville,. Feb. 18. A terrible accident happened to a young man named Fred Kemp, at Ivumeroa yesterday afternron. Ele was engaged in blasting logs in a paddock, lie had just finished a charge and before tbe fuse was fixed an explosion occurred. Kemp was standing on a log at the time and received the full force. His hair wat badly singed and his clothes were set on fire and he only had enough energy to rush to a swamp and roll into the water, but before he got the fire out he was terribly burned about the body At present he is lying in a neighbour's house (Bryant's) in a very bad way. Kemp has do knowledge of how the charge went off, but it w surmised that he was smoking at the time and a spark dropped on to the powder.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5474, 18 February 1910, Page 3
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