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Emil was the only member of the family to go to college, attending the University of Uppsala. [2] [3] Emil died together with several other factory workers, the victim of an explosion while experimenting with nitroglycerine at Nobels Sprängolja, his father's factory at Heleneborg in Stockholm. At the time, Nobel was a student in Uppsala, but ...
Their load exploded at 9:45am on September 4, 1885 on the 6th Line (road) at Douro, Ontario, [2] noted as being a corduroy road and rough to travel in poor weather. [3] Both men were killed in the blast and the only parts of the men that were found were "a finger, two tiny sections of a skull, a tiny piece of cheek identified by the whiskers, and what appeared to be a man's shoulder that was ...
Part of the track where the explosion took place at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896 The crater created by the dynamite explosion (looking west) at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896. On 16 February 1896, a freight train with eight trucks of dynamite – 2300 cases of 60lb each, or about 60 tonnes – was put in a siding at Braamfontein railway ...
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Bodies and wreckage were scattered over an area of 20 acres (8 ha) [1] covering farm fields, marshland, and pine forests. [10] During the first day of search and rescue, investigators located 32 bodies of the 34 persons on board. [1] [10] One of the missing bodies was later found at the main crash site. The remaining body was found at Snow's ...
Divers in northern Italy have recovered the last two bodies of workers killed by an explosion that collapsed and flooded several levels of an underground hydroelectric plant, bringing to seven the ...
A second outbuilding containing naphtha caught fire after about fifteen minutes and there was a second naphtha explosion, showering hundreds of gallons of the flaming liquid on the burning wreckage. [4] Engineers estimated the force of the boiler explosion as equal to 660 pounds (300 kg) of dynamite. [3]
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