FOUR MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS.
—v—(Received Aiifist 17,12.30 p.m.) Noumea, August IG. A fearful accident happened today. A number of artillery ollicers and men went out in two boats in a small bay two miles from tho town for the purpose of destroying several, bombs loaded with melinite. Curing tho operations of fixing the 1 electric current a boinb exploded and blew up tho boat containing nine men. Three artillery artificers and. a Kanaka wero literally blown to atoms. Tho remaining iiyo woro badly injured. A Kanaka ill the second boat was also injured. Tho othor boat rescued tho wounded.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5713, 17 August 1897, Page 2
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