EXPLOSION AT TARARU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10838, 23 August 1898, Page 5

EXPLOSION AT TARARU.

TAMPERING. WITH EXPLOSIVES.

'A NARROW ESCAPE. [BY TEUGBAT-H-OWK CORRESPONDENT.] 1 Thames, Monday. Two young men, named Adam Wilson and A Xoung, son and nephew respectively of Mr John Wilson, sharebroker, met with a painM accident, and narrowly escaped with their lives a Tararu yesterday, whilst examining' an explosive known as zanthorite ? The explosive m question was manufactured about two years ago by a Mr. Snodgrass, who had stored it in a.small air-tight building that had been erected for the purpose, at the 1 X°hT°T f Ml '- WiWs paddocks, Adam wnf Cl '-, Up , on enterin g <*• Gilding Adam Wilson placed a small piece of the exa match to apply to it, expecting it to fizzle a mate i to apply to it, expecting it to fizzle explosion took place, and both the young SLZFt?"? e/1 *"? and 23?fl } fOfC / ° f tlle ex P los also but vZ, door and set fire to the building on rtf I 50 0" le s overed bis senses and opened the door, and assisted Wilson to es.from the building, although no ore S2r T, SCTei . lv . burnt about the f «™ and a mini mT' CS SUStained > althou S» ol a most painful character, are not considered doit Se .'i' ° US ' and , both patients are now its f g wl Wel aS , CanbeeX^ted Tl»hu6 itself was entire consumed by the flames. It is considered that the explosion took place fcugh an accumulation of'acid fumes in the building, which was air-tight, and had been closed up for a period of nearly two yean