Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — She Hit the Can. [ARTICLE]

She Hit the Can.

A terrible explosion occurred in Chiles valley, on the Thomas Edington ranch, near the magnesia mine. Mrs. Bartlett, whose husband owns the mine, was out with a 22 calibre rifle shooting at fences and rocks, when she noticed a can some fifty yards away. Taking aim, she fired at it, and a big explosion resulted. The can did not happen to be an empty one. It contained twenty-five pounds of giant powder. By its explosion fences were torn down and posts razed to the ground. The shock broke all the windows in the windows in the house, tore off the weather boarding and threw Bartlett and William Bradley who were kitchen, in a heap upon the floor. Luckily Mrs. Bartlett, the innocent cause of all this commotion, was not injured, but the scene of the upheaval now presents a most demoralized appearance. [Napa (Cal.) Register.