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TEN SPECTATORS KILLED. OPENING OF NEW OIL WELL. (United Frew Association— By JWtrfo Telegrapl Copyright). Received 10 a.m. to-day. ST. GEORGE (Utah), March 7. Ten persons were killed and a score injured while witnessing the shootingin of a new oil well. A heavy charge of nitro-glycerinc dropped into the hole exploded prematurely and ripped the derrick from its moorings, hurling it into the spectators. The blast rocked the countryside within a radius of five miles.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 March 1935, Page 7
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77PREMATURE EXPLOSION Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 March 1935, Page 7
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