Explosion on Board the Wareatea.
A SEAMAN INJURED.
(By Telegraph.)
CHRISTCHURCH, May 17.
On Wednesday last an explosion occurred on board the Wareatea, which arrived at Lyttelton to-day with Qroymouth coal. When off Gape Farewell Samuel Taylor, seaman, went down the hatch, and struck a match. An explosion of gas followed, and he was blown over the combings of the batch on to the deck. He was fearfully burnt on the face. The force of the explosion was so great that the two hatches were blown overboard. Taylor is progressing favourably.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5010, 18 May 1889, Page 2
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