SHOCKING EXPLOSIONS.
FORTY-TY/O LIVES LOST (DUCAT DAMAGE TO A COALMIX E. DISASTER IX POWDER WORKS. Uy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, February 22.
An explosion at tho Glebe colliery, in the village of Washington, near SumJerlan'l. hilled fourteen out of hf- ((•..!! persons in the mine at the ti-mo. Omit diimago was done to tho mine, there being many falls in the workings. Tho explosion occurred in tho night. There are usually five hundred persons employed in tho day-time. SAN FUA-N'OivSCO, February 22. Ton tons of dynamite exploded in a building belonging to the Hercules powder works, Berkeley, California, killing four whites and twenty-four Chinamen.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6451, 24 February 1908, Page 5
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