PAINFUL ACCIDENT AT TARARU.
A LAD SEVERELY BURNED.
A lad named OballiH, about 16 years of age, met with a painful accident yesterday afternoon. It appears that at the time of the accident he was engaged in splitting logs at Ta> am, and had in one of his trousers pockets about threequarters of a pollet of blasting powder along with some loose matches. In tho course of his work the axe handle, accidentally struck the pocket containing the powder and matches, with the result that one of tho vestas ignited and exploded the powder. Tho roiiscqucnco was that Challis was very sevcrly burned about the lower part of his body and both thighs. Ha was at once conveyed to thr Hospital, whore his injuries were attended to by Dr. Williams, but, we understand, that it will ue some time before he will be able to leave tho institution.
One sad feature of the accidout is that the unfortunate lad's father is also an inmate of the Hospital, suffer-in* from a severe attack of rheumatism.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7959, 30 October 1894, Page 3
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