A terrific explosion, described as one of the worst known in Cornwall for some years, occurred on May 12tli, in some gunpowder works at Herod's Foot, seven miles from Liskeard. The explosion occurred in the breakhonse, and it instantly killed two men who were there, engaged in crushing powder, and wrecked the building. Some of the burning fragments fell into the deposit hoiise, causing a still more terrible explosion. This ■ building was literally blown to atoms, a ' huge chasm in the earth being alone left to show where it had stood. The press 1 house adjoining it was destroyed, and with i it a man who was inside. The explosion * was heard twenty miles off. Small-pox, it is stated, has broken out in the four ships of the flying squadron which recently left Bombay for China. *-
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 84, 28 July 1876, Page 2
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136Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 84, 28 July 1876, Page 2
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