MIDNIGHT EXPLOSION.
<*». FAMILY'S LUCKY ESCAPE. A family had a remarkable, escape from serious injury, when a midnight explosion occurred at a newsagent*!! shop at Greenlane, Pciij!*, England. The noise of the explosion, which was caused by a spark I from a cigarette dropping on to a small | heap tof gunpowder, attracted a large number of people to the scene of the accia.l£ «v rge Frederi Barnes, a disnnmC'of m ,? man -' Vas b up a had bLv? R^ d . B P°rt»ng cartridges which late faZr 8t 0 * the Itemises by hi* M Considerable d!™ the "plosion occurred, M room, while the £* was done in the. m&- blew out the front C.® n d f tho explosion & and-the the .hop ■kim premises. wM?K « hand her face »&MilHrasS&us'T however, who'."fcXT?;-Sfi, twatt
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18571, 1 December 1923, Page 14 (Supplement)
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