ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
A young man named George Silcock was placing a cartridge in a rifle at Nelson yesterday when the cartridge stuck. He tried to force it into the breech, when it exploded, and the powder badly burnt his face, but no serious results are anticipate 1.
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Evening Star, Issue 10782, 17 November 1898, Page 3
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