FRIGHTFUL.
EXPLOSION OF SULPHURIC
ACID
FIVE MEN SPLASHED
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT, PER"PRESS ASSOCIATION.. (Received Alay 18,-10.35 a.m.) Sydney, Alay 18.
An iron drum, containing ten hundredweight of sulphuric acid, exploded on the c wharf at Newcastle, splashing its contents over five men working in the vicinity. ' Grainger, a labourer, received the full force of the acid in the face and body. Smith, another labourer, was also frightfully burned. Others were splashed on the arms aiid face.
The injured men screamed and writhed with the excruciating pain. Smith plunged into the , harbour. Wherever - the acid touched their clothes fell to pieces. '■' The injured men were conveyed to the hospital. Braithwaite aud Smith are in a critical condition.,. The others are not seriously-injured.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 3
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