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Herald Of The United States
Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island
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In Philadelphia, an explosion from a combustibles-filled shell injured Elizabeth Donnelly severely, with burns and bruises to her family after David Donnelly followed a vendor's advice to burn out a plug.
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PHILADELPHIA, MAY 8.
On Wednesday afternoon, Elizabeth Donnelly was brought to the Pennsylvania Hospital, with her leg very much shattered, and her body burnt and bruised, by the bursting of a shell, filled with combustibles, which a man, who came to her husband's house, offered for sale, with a parcel of old iron. In the shell there was a plug, which the vender advised David Donnelly to burn out, by putting it into the fire. This advice he no sooner followed, than the shell went off, with an explosion that alarmed his neighbors. Several of them, who came to assist the family, found the clothes were on fire on Donnelly, his wife and child, which they soon extinguished, but not until the sufferers were injured by the burning. The door in the room, and the ceiling, were broken through in different directions. David and his child are attended as out patients of the Hospital Dispensary, and his wife is taken care of in the house.
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Philadelphia
Event Date
On Wednesday Afternoon
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elizabeth donnelly's leg shattered, body burnt and bruised; david donnelly and child burnt; family treated at pennsylvania hospital, elizabeth admitted, others as outpatients; door and ceiling damaged.
Event Details
A man offered a shell filled with combustibles and old iron for sale at David Donnelly's house. He advised burning out the plug, which David did, causing an explosion that alarmed neighbors. Neighbors extinguished fires on the family's clothes but injuries occurred.