Blood on the tracks: Brutal deaths haunt Kuranda to Cairns rail

It turned out both were caused by premature explosion of rackarock, an explosive developed in London a decade earlier and used as an alternative to dynamite.At 77 cutting, powder monkey James Doyle, was working 18-20m up a steep slope when the rackarock became stuck. Against all rules, he tried…



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