EXPLOSION OF GELIGNITE.
A YOUNG MAN KILLED
REEFTON, Sunday.
A young man named Frank Nankervis, a native of Long Gully, Ben(j_jgo, was killed at Big River by an explosion of a gelignite charge, when cleaning up the bottom of a drive. At the inquest yesterday it appeared a portion of an unexploded charge was left maybe for several shifts previously, and must have been touched by him. It killed him and injured his mate.
(Deceased was a brother of Mrs Hocking, of Washington Valley.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 8 March 1909, Page 1
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84EXPLOSION OF GELIGNITE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 8 March 1909, Page 1
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