ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
SERIOUS EXPLOSIONS AND SAD LOSS .OF LIFE. United Press Association—Per Electtie . Telegraph—Copyright ' Received' 9.-5 a.m., June 7th._ NEW YORK, June 6. \ dynamite explosion occurred pendence, on the Florence-Cripple Creek Railway, by which sixteen men -were killed fTJIi fatally injnred. The ist miners, -who had just stopped work, were awaiting the tiain to V°*>*j!?*£ The officials are confident that the out- , ra<re was premeditated; that dynamite was so" placed that the incoming., tram- must wrecked the Caining Distillerv, at Peoria, Illinois, the second JarJK the world, and buried orbarned ten persons. The loss amounts to 1,000,000 dollars. The fli e spread to ti-.dock-yard near, burning 3200 cattle. '- » J Received 12.16 a.m„ June Btb. NEW YORK,-June 7. Dvr.amite -was placed under the platform of the station at Independence; neat_rtwas fixed a levolver connected -mth 300 let of wire to the adjacent cnbbings ;.and the end was fastened to a-*hair leg which was used as a lever.
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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12393, 8 June 1904, Page 2
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156ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Timaru Herald, Volume LXXX, Issue 12393, 8 June 1904, Page 2
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