EXPLOSION AT KAITANGATA.
A slight explosion, of firedamp, according to the correspondent of the Otago Dq,ily; Times, toot place in a section'of the shaft workings of the Kaitangata mine, by which four men, named D. Jones, John Shore, A. Cunningham, and E. Davis, were partially burnt, the first-mentioned being the most severely injured. The employes in this part of the mine were working with locked safety lamps, but it appears that one man entered it with a naked light, having negligently passed the station where all such lights should be left.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6134, 22 March 1898, Page 2
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