Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — GASOLINE KILLS TWO BOYS [ARTICLE]

GASOLINE KILLS TWO BOYS

During Celebration Light Is Applied to Cask and Explosion Follows. Yarmouth, N. S., July 2.—Two boys are dead and four more may die as the result of a childish prank in celebrating Dominion day. Seven or eight children who were playing with a lighted candle on the station platform of the Halifax and Southwestern railroad attempted to make a bonfire of a cask of gasoline. With a terrific roar the cask exploded.