People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Miracle of Modern Days. [ARTICLE]

Miracle of Modern Days.

Charles Foster, a young man of Franklin, Pa., had a breakdown on a steep hill while driving a team attached to a wagon in which was 480 quarts of nitro-glycerine. The wagon got away and running over a embankment at the side of the road turned end over end, scattering the cans of nitro in every direction. One can struck a stump and was broken open, but no explosion occurred. Everybody in the oil region is wondering why th,at stuff didn’t “bust.”