TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
DYNAMITE-LADEN TRUCKS COLLIDE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE IN JOHANNESBURG (United Service.) Johannesburg, September 4. The entire city was shaken by a terrific explosion of dynamite at midday. Scores of bouses were rendered uninhabitable and families homeless for the night, and the railway system was torn up for hundreds of yards. There were no casualties. Eleven tons of dynamite in two railway trucks exploded at Canada Junction, devastating an area of two square miles? A crater 150 ft. in circumference and 10ft deep was formed by the explosion, which was due to the collision of two trucks containing 310 cases of dynamite. There were amazing escapes, for, though many hundreds of Europeans and natives Were in‘the vicinity, nobody was injured.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 11
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119TERRIFIC EXPLOSION Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 11
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