ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
EXPLOSION OP A POWDER MILL. [Special to Peess Association.! SAN FBANCISCO, Mat 22. A gunpowder mill exploded near the city, and fourteen persons were killed. DISASTROUS GUN EXPLOSION. SYDNEY, Mat 2S\ China newß reports a terrible explosion at Woosung. A nine-inch forty-ton gun used in the recent war, burst, killingforty? three men on tb a spot, • : Mr' John Richards, a small- farmer, residing at the sandhills, near Burwood, died : suddenly this morning. He was fifty-one years of age, and bad been ailing for Borne time with an aneurism. About half-past five o'clock this morning his son heard an nnusual noise in the bedroom, and, on going in, found him unconscious. Another son went to Mr Recce's house, and telephoned for medioal aid. Dr De Renzi, who had attended the deceased about six months a^o, arnvod about seven o'clock, but found that he was dead.
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Star (Christchurch), 23 May 1895, Page 3
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