THE JOHANNESBURG DISASTER.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE. RACE FEUDS FORGOTTEN. [Special to Press Association.! PRETORIA, _ Feb. 22. The quantity of dynamite which exploded was fifty tons, and had stood in tho sun for days. The damage is estimated at a million sterling. The Netherland Railway Company, it is said, is liable. A huge hospital has been arranged in which to treat the wmunded. Race feuds are forgotten in the face of the calamity. The Queen has sent a message expressing sympathy w-ith the sufferers in the recent dynamite explosion.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCV, Issue 10889, 24 February 1896, Page 5
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87THE JOHANNESBURG DISASTER. Lyttelton Times, Volume XCV, Issue 10889, 24 February 1896, Page 5
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