Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1898 — DEADLY DYNAMITE. [ARTICLE]

DEADLY DYNAMITE.

Explosion on a Minnesota Farm Causes Two Deaths—One Victim Torn to Pieces. St. Paul, Minn., July 8. —A Lakefield (Minn.) special to the Pioneer Press says: At noon Thursday, on John Neurth’s farm, six miles southeast of town, while George Ralph, of Welcome, and Peter Wanderbamb, of Kansasville, Wis., were preparing a pound charge of dynamite to use in a well they were digging, it exploded. Ralph was literally blown to pieces, parts of hia body being found over 40 paces from where the ascident happened. Wanderbamb had both feet and right hand blown off, but lived an hour and a half. Christian Thompson, the renter on the farm, who was standing behind the men, was terribly injured, but It is believed he will recover. The accident was the result of carelessness, the men having been engaged pounding the dynamite into the can with a spike when it exploded.