People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1894 — Smutty Wheat Explodes. [ARTICLE]

Smutty Wheat Explodes.

Guthrie, O. T., July 3. —A remarkable accident is reported from Downs. While a thrashing machine was being run at a rapid rate smutty wheat caused spontaneous combustion to take place inside the separator, and the resulting explosion completely demolished the machine, fatally burned dnd crushed two men feeding the grain and started a fire which burned the stacks.