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Owosso, MI Dynamite Explodes in Oven, Apr 1904

Posted November 18th, 2007 by Linda Horton

DYNAMITE EXPLODES IN OVEN OF STOVE.

Two Killed and Three Injured as a Result.

OWOSSO, Mich., April 26.----WILLIAM FRANCIS and his baby were killed and Mrs. Francis and two other children badly hurt by an explosion of dynamite that destroyed the Francis home near Corunna, to-day.

Francis had a quantity of dynamite for use in blowing out stumps and placed some of the explosive in the oven of the stove to dry.

The Post Standard, Syracuse, NY 27 Apr 1904
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Transcribed by Linda Horton. Thank you, Linda!

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