Seven persons have been dangerously hurt at Glasgow by an explosion of gunpowder. A deaf and dumb man found a keg in a passage, and took it home ; he seems to have thought it contained butter. Failing to force it open with a poker, he made the poker red-hot, and proceded to bore a hole in the keg ; the contents were gunpowder. The explosion which followed blew the roof off the house, and every person in the building, except an infant, suffered. (Leeds Intelligencer, February 11th, 1854)
It's always the baby.
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