A TRAGIC DEATH.
SHATTERED BY DYNAMITE. mass association. GREYMOUTH. January 19. Walter Cocks, aged twenty-seven years, employed as fore man by Forsyth and McKay, ironmongers, mot n tragic death this afternoon shortly before I o'clock. Cocks was nailing up. a case containing dynamite caps, when an explosion took place, blowing bis hotly to pieces. The explosion was heard all over town. Windows in the vicinity wore broken, and tiio store badly damaged, one fcido being partly blown out. Cocks was captain of the Battalion Band, and well known, lie was to bo married shortly. McKay, one of the partners had loft Cocks just before the explosion.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5802, 20 January 1906, Page 5
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