A PAINFUL ACCIDENT.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12723, 19 February 1910, Page 4

A PAINFUL ACCIDENT.

Wooclville, Feb. 18. A painful accident happened to a young man named Fred, Kemp, a son of -\lr E. Kemp, of Kumeroa, yesterday afternoon. Kemp was blasting logs in a paddock, and had just finished a charge, before the. fuse was fixed an explosion occurred. Kemp was standing on the log at the time, and received the full force of the explosion. His hair was badly ringed, and his clothes wore on fire. He had only enough energy to rush to the swamp and roll in the water; but before tho flames • were extinguished' he was much burnt about the body. At present he is lying in a neighbour's house (Mr Bryant's) in a very bad way. Kemp has no knowledge of how the charge went-off; but it is surmised that he was smoking at the time, and that a spark dropped on to the powder.