VIENNINGS J. - bailiff (VIENNINGS Johannes Wilhelmus, aged 55)
MERWE D., van der - labourer (MERWE Daniel Johannes, v.d., aged 42)
NEIL N. - blacksmith & fitter (NEIL Nicolaas Johannes Hendrik, aged 36)
The event was described in the Adelaide newspaper:
That night the Irrigation Board's employees entered the water tower to open the valves that would release the imprisoned tons of water. The men's lantern was extinguished by a gust of air. One of the crew struck a match which ignited an accumulation of marsh gas. the tower became a sheet of flame, from which emerged blackened figures that
jumped 30 feet to the rocks below in their suffering. Three men died and the great irrigation gates of the lake were locked fast by the explosion for two months.
(source: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/56515340?browse=ndp%3Abrowse%2Ftitle%2FR%2Ftitle%2F89%2F1927%2F10%2F08%2Fpage%2F5115175%2Farticle%2F56515340)
-South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Records, 1840-1972", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WFM3-NBPZ : Sat Oct 14 00:41:03 UTC 2023), Entry for Johannes Wilhelmus Vienings, 18 Apr 1927.
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