Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Killed in Driving a Nail. [ARTICLE]

Killed in Driving a Nail.

Detroit Nows, August Gunthier-made a fatal error, yesterday, in \he t Hancock Chemical Works when he drove a nail into a board that had been saturated with nitro-glycerine. There wasn’t much of the stuff, but there whh enough. The first time he missed the nail he hit the boaid, and an explosion followed that entirely destroyed the board and mortally wounded Mr. (ninthier.