CAR BLOWN TO PIECES
DRIVER ESCAPES INJURY An -explosion in a motor-car carrying 100 mining -detonators and 48 plugs of explosives oeenured near Mount Jlagnet, about 290 miles north-east of Perth, Western Australia, recently, and wrecked the car, but .tie driver. Alexander Sharp, a prospector, was uninjured. The driver's seat was blown to p-ecKs, and a]] the woodwork of the tar body was torn to matchwood. The contents of the ear were blown for hundreds of yards, the nearest article being afterwards found 92 yards away. Mr. Sharp was going on a prospecting expedition, and, after visiting Mount Magnet to purchase stores and explosives, was returning to Wandarrie Station with horseshoes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 18
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