CITY SHAKEN
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN JOHANNESBURG ELEVEN TONS OF DYNAMITE EXPLODE. AMAZING ESCAPES. (United Press Association—By CableCopyright ) (United Service.] (Received 5, 1.45 a.m.) Johannesburg, Sept. 4. The entire city was shaken by a terrific explosion’of dynamite at midday. Scores of houses were rendered uninhabitable and families were homeless for the night. The railway system was torn up for 100 yards. There were no casualties. Eleven tons of dynamite in two railway trucks exploded at Canada Junction, devastating an area of two square miles and making a crater 150 in circumference and ten feet deep. The explosion was due to a collision of two trucks, containing 310 cases of dynamite. There were many amazing escapes, for though many hundreds of Europeans and natives were in the vicinity nobody was injured.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 225, 5 September 1928, Page 5
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