BLOWN TO DEATH
CIGARETTE TRAGEDY,
SYDNEY, February 17.
Arthur Vincent, powder-monkey, lit a cigarette, dropped the match into cotton-waste\in his shirt pocket, and brushed it off, blazing, into a bo£ of explosive. He was blown to death. “This will prove a warning to others of the danger of smoking while, handling explosives,” said the Coroner, Mr W. C. Barker, returning a finding of accidental death to-day. Evidence showed that Vincent was working .011 sewerage works on February 3.
Winter, driller, said Vincent asked him to come down, into the trench and fire some charges.
Vincent rolled a cigarette,, and when the cotton waste caught fire he excitedly jumped up, brushing it away. Sparks fell into a box of fuses, detonators, and plugs of gelignite. Vincent emptied the lot on the ground .Winter yelled “Get!” and Had gone only a few yards when.a.terrific explosion occurred. The whole of Vincent’s body was burned, a leg was fractured, and face, limbs, and body were extensively lace.r-, ated. j* ’ 4 . . , He "died iu.JiospitaLspo.n afterwards.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1937, Page 6
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