FATAL POWDER EXPLOSION.
i PBBSS ASSOCIATION TBLSOBAM.') AUCKLAND, March 6*. A man named John Riordan, who was working at the Makarau Railway contract near Kiukaupakapaka, was killed to day by a powder explosion. He had lighted two fuses in a charge of powder, and, although he lighted a third, he evidently thought he had not done ao. Immediately the first two went off, he ran in to light the other, which exploded just as he got to it, smashing his forehead to pieces and otherwise mutilating him. When he was picked up by the other men he was quite dead.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7805, 7 March 1891, Page 6
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FATAL POWDER EXPLOSION.
Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7805, 7 March 1891, Page 6
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