EXPLOSIVE IN COAL.
GREY MOUTH, August 3. Something in the coal used in the kitchen range in a Blaketown house last evening exploded. The only occupant of the room, Alma Axelsen. aged 14 received facial cuts and a gash on the temple requiring three stitches. The range was blown to bits; the table, set for a meal, was covered with soot; and pieces of iron and brick were scattered about the room.
Neighbours entered on hearing the explosion, and found the girl blindly groping her way round the room.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 76
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