TERRIFYING EXPLOSION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 30 May 1919, Page 5

TERRIFYING EXPLOSION.

HOUSE BLOWN Wf IN GREY-

MOUTH

INmltE* FORTUNATE ESCAPE.

(by telegraph—press association.) GREYMOUTHy May 29.

About 2 o'clock this morning residents of Greymouth were awakened by a terrifying explosion.' It proved one of the most dastardly deed* perpetrated in the Dominion for many years. High, explosive- was placed in the house of Senior Sergeant Simpson, of the police force. The chouse resembles'"a .trailding; that has been bombed. Sergeant Simpson says he was awakened ~by the explosion, the swaying of the building, and the sound of falling £lass; The kitchen was ar scene of chaos;; the walls being shattered. Solid shelves were torn out of position, and the windows blown clean out. Mrs Simpson and an infant were sleeping in a room adjoining, .and were sayed from the force of the explosion by a cupboard in the kitchen-bedroom walk Tfie charge was evidently placed at an angle forward of the kitchen chimney and wall. The explosive shattered the bench and splintered the chimney. The charge was fired l>y a time fuse. A large charge was used. The inmates escaped injury. Mrs Simpson is suffering from shock.