Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1899 — SUN EXPLODES DYNAMITE. [ARTICLE]

SUN EXPLODES DYNAMITE.

Missouri Zinc Miners Narrowly Escape Being Blown Up. A strange story of an explosion of dynamite by the sun comes from the Turkey Track zinc mines, near Aurora, Mo. The miners left half a dozen sticks of dynamite in an open box not far from the shaft. Just before noon the rays of the sun, becoming focused on the dynamite, caused its explosion. Some of the hoister men narrowly escaped.