BOY SERIOUSLY INJURED
DISASTROUS CHEMICAL EXPERIMENT EXPLOSION IN GARAGE Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, November 26. While conducting chemical experiments in his father’s garage at Belfast on Sunday, Edward Garrick, a schoolboy attending St. Andrew’s College, caused an explosion and seriously injured himself. The boy was carrying on on his own account some of the chemical experiments he was doing at school. He was ramming some potassium chlorate into an iron tube, and apparently the friction caused this compound to explode with great force. Part of the tube went through the car in the garage, and’ the workshop itself was badly damaged. The boy suffered very severe injuries, and is now dangerously ill in St. George’s Hospital. He is reported to be progressing as well as can be expected. He is a son of Mr. Percy Garrick, manager of the Belfast freezing works.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 54, 27 November 1929, Page 12
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