MEN TERRIBLY BURNED,
ONE THROWS LIGHTED MATCH INTO KEG OE GUNPOWDER,
[by telegraph, press association.] Wanganui, last night, Whilst engaged at blasting operations near Taihape two men, named John Holroyd and David Bernard, met with a serious accident. One lit a fuse and threw the match into a keg of gunpowder, with the result that both men were terribly burned. The men have been brought down to the Wanganui Hospital.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 270, 23 November 1901, Page 2
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70MEN TERRIBLY BURNED, Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 270, 23 November 1901, Page 2
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