People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — AMMONIA EXPLODES. [ARTICLE]

AMMONIA EXPLODES.

The Driver of a Brewery Wagon Blown Across the Street and Killed. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 29.—Joseph Bissinger was driving along Grace street with a load of ammonia, used for making ice in breweries. One of the tanks containing the stuff exploded with a loud report, hurling Bissinger 20 feet, throwing him through the boughs of a tree which overhung the street. He came down on the opposite side of the street. His hands and feet were lorn off by the explosion and his flight through the tree. He was instantly killed. -\q reason for the explosion is known.