People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — TWO KILLED BY GASOLINE. [ARTICLE]

TWO KILLED BY GASOLINE.

Three Others Fatally Injured Near Carondelet, Mo. St. Louis, April 26.—A five-gallon can of gasoline exploded Tuesday afternoon in the house of Casimir Nigg, a farmer living on the old military road south of Carondelet, completely destroying the building. Two children were killed, two adults fatally injured and one seriously burned. The gasoline can broke while being carried through a summer kitchen, and, becoming ignited, the vapor caused an explosion that shook the houses for some distance around. Nigg’s house was burned and his two Children perished in the flames before they could be saved. Casimir Nigg and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Vogel, were fatally injured while trying to rescue the little ones.