PLAYING WITH GUNPOWDER.
(Per United Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, April 14.
Two young men—named Joseph Stett and John Guthric—took Jialf a keg of gunpowder into a blacksmith's shop at Berhampore this afternoon and spilt some. They put a match " for ji lark" to the loose powder, but it communicated with the keg and the place was blown to atoms. Fortunately they were some distance from the main explosion,' but both were badly burned, and Guthrie will probably lose the sight of one uye.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11398, 15 April 1899, Page 5
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