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The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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A massive explosion of 100 pounds of powder destroyed J. P. Andrews & Co.'s grocery store in Climax, Kalamazoo County, on the evening of January 10, injuring 12 people severely, with clerk Chas. Gould, customer John Shaffer, and laborer Wm. Vanvalkenburg likely to die. Property loss: $3,000 total.
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DETROIT, January 11.—The store and stock of groceries, &c., of J. P. Andrews & Co., at Climax, Kalamazoo county, were blown all to pieces last evening by the explosion of 100 pounds of powder. Twelve persons were injured, nine very badly. The loss on the building is $1,000, and on stock $2,000. The clerk was weighing out some powder for a customer, when by some unaccountable accident the powder became ignited and the explosion followed. It is a miracle that nobody was killed outright.
Chas. Gould, Clerk, John Shaffer, the customer who had bought the powder, and Wm. Vanvalkenburg, a laborer, who were standing by, were so badly injured that they will probably die.
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Climax, Kalamazoo County
Event Date
Last Evening (January 10)
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twelve persons injured, nine very badly; chas. gould, john shaffer, and wm. vanvalkenburg probably will die; no outright deaths; building loss $1,000, stock loss $2,000
Event Details
The store and stock of groceries of J. P. Andrews & Co. were blown to pieces by the explosion of 100 pounds of powder while the clerk was weighing out powder for a customer, which ignited by unaccountable accident.