Narrow Esea.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 182, 30 June 1884, Page 2

Narrow Esea.

TWO CHILDREK ™tLY BLOWN TO ATOMS BY GftSPOWDEB.

On Friday evening ast two of Mr Brazier's children, limg at Terrace End, sustained sever injuries from the bursting of gupowder. The oldest boy's face is sircely recognizable, although mostforl unately the eyes escaped all injiy. From in- £ ormation.su)>plied uaVthe chiltfren's mother, we ih.e eldest lx>y, aged about* nine yeas,' was playing about the . house^ p U j^jg^ eyfin j U g^ and wandering into He rear of Mr Flyger's store, being he next house to his parents', he the® picked up a powder flask, and csrring it off to play with, eventually bodghtMinto the house. His ftttiiefn&iibligMfrhat the boy had got hold of took it from him, and to make mre there was nothing iusicle. . he ; atoo,k r it over the fire, some few grains !.«if ' powder lodging inside fell out aid made a slight flash. He then tbrw it aside, thinking V had, emntiel afteiwards left-thd hoiisVpTbut the boy haviujf seen the pretty effect caused by his foher shaking the flask over the_ fire, gob possession of fche.flask onceitnorr, and rapped it on the side of the fireplace, he had no sooner done so thei a terrific explosion tjpok cilice,' the \ fatlieil i€spng into. the .noiise? met his boy cbvereu m n sheet of flane, he elapsed the child m his arms, and with difficulty, and receiving a savere scorching himself, extinguished ihb !bjaze,« Wfc found his child frightlilly" disfigured, and suffering mo»t acute agony. The face, one arm, breast, and the palm of the right hand-being almost burnt to aoinder. Another child, about four years old, happeniug to be close to his brother at ths time, of.- ;vhejaccident, received a few "nasty burns on the left cheek, but otherwise escaped unhurt It^Wilfbe <J a considerable time before the boy most hint will have recovered the effects of the accident, and it-is- hoped the results of it will be a caution to storekeepers who are careless enough* to allow material, of such. ,a dangerous icom* ; pbsitidn ?as gU«pWderl td 'tjeMfl&arelesaly about their premises.