SCIENCE MASTER OF DUNEDIN FATALLY INJURED IN BRISBANE
The Rev. Brother Kenneth Eugene Ramsay, aged 25, of Dunedin, was fatal’.y injured yesterday when he was demonstrating an explosion of liquid oxygen at the St. Laurence Christian Brothers’ College, South Brisbane. Mr. Ramsay, who was science master at the college, was showing other brothers the effects of mixing ferric oxide and aluminium with oxygen to make an explosion. The demonstration was made beneath the school house.
Mr. Ramsay made other brothers shelter behind pillars. He touched off the mixture with a fuse which he made from a sheet of paper. The police believe that he may have accidentally spilled some of the mixture, as there were two explosions. Mr. Ramsay was knocked off balance by the first explosion and he could not get clear before the second one.
Clouds of smoke billowed out from beneath the school house. When the smoke cleared Mr. Ramsay was found lying injured nine feet from where the explosion occurred. The blast had torn off one of his ears and he had other head injuries.
He died in hospital six hours later. Mr. Ramsay, who has no relatives in Australia, had been science master at the schol for 18 months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 24 October 1950, Page 4
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