FOOTWARMER EXPLODES.
EIGHT PERSONS INJURED.
ROOM ALMOST DEMOLISHED
A five-roomed house at Invermay, Tasmania, was wrecked and eight persons were injured—one seriously—when a steel cylinder, formerly used for generating gas for motor-car lights, but for someyears adapted as a footwarmer, exploded while being heated in an open fireplace at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Creetihatch recently. Mrs. Greenhatch, her five children and a young man and a child, were playing a table game when a violent explosion occurred. The brickwork of the fireplace, which was common to two rooms, was blown in fragments across both. Large holes were made in walls by flying bricks. Furniture was splintered, windows and pictures smashed, and the room in which the explosion occurred was almost demolished.
Maxwell Greenhatch, aged 14, sustained serious head injuries, and Mrs. Greenhatch had her right shoulder gashed. All the other occupants were stunned and suffered from cuts and bruises. Th% neighbourhood was shaken, and the report was heard half a mile away.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19698, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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