EXPLOSION AT A MAGAZINE
THE CARETAKER BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Press Association. Electric Telegraph Copyright. Perth, July 16. The explosives magazine at Robbs Jetty, three miles from Freeman tie, blew up, the caretaker, Whelan, being blown to atom 3. Whelan saw a light in the magazine, and got two men to go with him to investigate. Whelan left his companions behind a sandbank, and went and looked in at the window of the magazine. He shouted to the others to clear out. and the building at the same instant blew up. The shock was felt at Perth, fifteen miles distant. The origin is a mystery,
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 168, 17 July 1903, Page 4
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104EXPLOSION AT A MAGAZINE Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 168, 17 July 1903, Page 4
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