Childhood Accident Leaves Three Injured
A young boy playing with gunpowder in a home near Olympia caused an explosion that injured three children.
Tuesday night, while a young son of Mr. Puts, who lives ten miles out of this place, was playing with gunpowder, he placed some on a table, and matching it with a lighted match, caused it to ignite the powder in the can, which exploded and badly wrecked the interior of the house, burning the face and hands of three children.
“matching it with a lighted match, caused it to ignite the powder in the can, which exploded”
Then · 1892134 years apartNow · 2026
This tragic accident highlights the common, dangerous presence of black powder in 19th-century households, a stark contrast to modern child safety standards.
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