EIGHT PERSONS KILLED
EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE. SOUTH AFRICAN TRAGEDY. (Received Monday, 12.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Tuesday. Probably the greatest explosion in peace history occurred at Beundoornstad, near Klerksdorp, Transvaal, when the largest single consignment of dynamite ever carried, contained in thir-ty-four trucks, blew up in one blinding flash. Eight persons were killed, but the driver and fireman miraculously escaped, and the locomotive was not damaged. A trench fifteen feet deep and three hundred yards long was made in the permanent way. A number of houses in the village were badly damaged.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 July 1932, Page 5
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