EXPLOSION OF SPIRIT DRUM
CHILDREN’S NARROW ESCAPE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, March 10. Two children, aged 5 and 6 years respectively, had a miraculous escape yesterday. They were playing in a right-of-way leading to Messrs, Kempthorne. Prosser’s. One is believed to have lit a match near the bunghole of a drum, which was afterwards found to contain methylated spirits. An.explosion followed, the lid of the drum being blown off with such violence as to make a hole a foot deep in the ground. The children suffered only minor injury.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 141, 11 March 1930, Page 13
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