People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1893 — Shoots a Gas Well. [ARTICLE]

Shoots a Gas Well.

MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 1.—Mrs. William Walters distinguished herself Tuesday by doing something no other woman ever did, and a few men will undertake, that of shooting a gas well with nitroglycerine. The deadly explosive requires the most careful handling. The brave little woman worked carefully until she had lowered the sixty quarts 900 feet in the ground. She then dropped the weight and ran away from the well. In a few seconds Mother Earth trembled, and the work was successfully done. Mrs. Walters’ husband is engaged in the dangerous business