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ELEVEN TONS OF DYNAMITE. JOHANNESBURG SHAKEN. AMAZING ESCAPES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (United Service.) Received September 5, 1.45 p.m. JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 4. Tho entire city was shaken at midday by a terrific explosion of dynamite. Eleven tons of dynamite in two railway trucks exploded at the Canada Junction, devastating an area of two square miles and making a crater 150 feet in circumference and ten feet deep. Scores of houses were rendered uninhabitable and families homeless for tho night. There were amazing escapes. Though there were many hundreds of Europeans and natives in the vicinity, nobody was injured.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1928, Page 2
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