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Domestic News
September 29, 1891
Fort Worth Gazette
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
What is this article about?
A dropped hammer cracked a store's large show window on Saturday; on Sunday, two men narrowly escaped injury when a draft shattered the glass, destroying the 10x15 ft pane but sparing the display.
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A Show Window Crashed.
Saturday afternoon while the carpenters were at work repairing the sign of G. Y. Smith one of them dropped a hammer from the scaffold and cracked the large plate glass show window. It was not taken out at once. Yesterday afternoon C. A. Ryer and C. D. Bullock went into the window for the purpose of taking out the glass. It was very shaky, and both gentlemen decided to vacate the window. They had hardly done so before someone in the store opened the rear door and this produced a draft strong enough to blow in the window. The huge glass, ten feet by fifteen, was shattered into a thousand pieces. It is unusually thick, and had Messrs. Ryer and Bullock remained in the window a minute longer both would undoubtedly have been killed. The display in the window was not damaged to any great extent.
Saturday afternoon while the carpenters were at work repairing the sign of G. Y. Smith one of them dropped a hammer from the scaffold and cracked the large plate glass show window. It was not taken out at once. Yesterday afternoon C. A. Ryer and C. D. Bullock went into the window for the purpose of taking out the glass. It was very shaky, and both gentlemen decided to vacate the window. They had hardly done so before someone in the store opened the rear door and this produced a draft strong enough to blow in the window. The huge glass, ten feet by fifteen, was shattered into a thousand pieces. It is unusually thick, and had Messrs. Ryer and Bullock remained in the window a minute longer both would undoubtedly have been killed. The display in the window was not damaged to any great extent.
What sub-type of article is it?
Accident
What keywords are associated?
Show Window
Glass Shattered
Dropped Hammer
Near Miss
Carpenters Accident
What entities or persons were involved?
G. Y. Smith
C. A. Ryer
C. D. Bullock
Domestic News Details
Event Date
Saturday Afternoon; Yesterday Afternoon
Key Persons
G. Y. Smith
C. A. Ryer
C. D. Bullock
Outcome
no injuries; glass shattered into a thousand pieces; display not damaged to any great extent
Event Details
Carpenters repairing sign dropped hammer cracking plate glass window; later Ryer and Bullock entered to remove glass but left due to shakiness; draft from opened door caused window to shatter