People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — MAY COST SIX LIVES. [ARTICLE]

MAY COST SIX LIVES.

Wet Powdes Carelessly Thrown Into a Stovoat Spring Creek, Mo. West Plains, Mo., Jan. 6.—50 l Collins, of Spring Creek, sat by an open, ifireplace with a keg .of blasting : powder beside him. He threw some >of the powder into the fire, thinking it too damp to burn. An explosion followed,, tearing the roof from the house and burning eight persons. Some saved tbeir lives by jumping into a creek which runs close to the house. The doctors think Collins, his wifa-and four children will die.