TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
34 TRUCKS OF DYNAMITE
EIGHT KILLED IN TRANSVAAL LOCOMOTIVE UNDAMAGED HUGE HOLE BLOWN IN LINE By Telegrsph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Cape Town, July 17. Probably the greatest explosion in peace-time history occurred at the village of Leeundooriistad, near Klerksdorp (Transvaal), when the largest single consignment of dynamite ever carried, contained in 34 trucks, blew up in one blinding flash. Eight persons were killed, but the driver and fireman of the train miraculously escaped, and the locomotive Was Undamaged. A trench 15 feet deep and 300 yards long was made in the permanent way. A number of houses in the village were badly damaged, but fortunately the area is not thickly populated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1932, Page 7
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