Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1909 — NEW MENACE IN GARAGES [ARTICLE]

NEW MENACE IN GARAGES

Waste Gasoline Cause of Damaging Sewer Explosion In New York. New York, Oct. B.—Nearly a square mile of the middle west side was shaken and 110,000 damage caused by a series of sewer explosions. feeven-year-old Emil Miller was standing on a manhole cover whfen the first rumble came. He and the cover shot up ten feet and Emil came down about a foot from the manhole, out of which flames were pouring. He was burned about the face and body. The police say sewer gas mixed with gasoline vapor from the waste discharges of many garages was ignited by some smoker casting a lighted stub into a sewer opening.