A “DUD” SHELL EXPLODES
KILLS EIGHT CHILDREN. FATHER’S FATAL DOORWEIGHT. EXTRAORDINARY' AFFAIR. Received July 13, 8.40 p.m. NEW YORK, July 13. Watertown (New York) reports that a three-inch shell (a “dud”) fired during artillery practice there at an encampment last summer, exploded and killed four boys and four girls, the eldest fifteen. The manner of the explosion will probably never be known, but it is believed the children, who were playing croquet, struck the shell with a mallet. It is known that other “duds” are about, and the police and firemen are searching. It is stated that the father of one of the youngsters had found the dud and was using it as a door weight on the back porch of his home, where the children played. The explosion shattered the windows of houses in the vicinity and in neighbouring squares.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18532, 14 July 1922, Page 5
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