Chemical Experiment Has Serious Results
SCHOOLBOY BADLY INJURED. RAMMED EXPLOSIVE MIXTURE INTO PIPE. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Edward Garrick, aged .18, a St An- * drow’s College boy, was making chemical experiments in his father’s garage ox. Saturday, when a heavy explosion •occurred, injuring him severely. Ho rammed chlorate of potash, a throat iczenger and icing sugar down a threequarter inch iron pipe. An explosion took' place and the youth had five ribs broken, bole made in bis left breast fracturing the pleura and the top of the little Unger of the left hand blown • off. Ho was sent to hospital, operated -upon on Saturday and again on Sunday. His condition is still serious. Th? double doors of the garage were shat tend and a camping trailer was also wrecked.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 November 1929, Page 7
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