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Show A STOVE BURSTS. It Causes Consternation in the Home of Bishop Barnard White-Early White-Early Tuesday morning a terrific explosion occured in the home of Bishop Barnard White at Three Mile Creek. The Bishop and his little son were in the room, the latter lat-ter standing over the large range warming his hands. Suddenly there was an explosion and the stove was blown into a thousand pieces. A girl was struck on the leg by a flying fly-ing piece; the Bishop was knocked down by a choice scrap of iron stricking him on the head; pieces went clean through the ceiling; but, strange to say, the lad who stood over the stove came out untouched! He rushed into the yard crying that his father was killed. Water came pouring down from the tank and extinguished ex-tinguished the flumes. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. As there had been a fire in the stove at least an hour, it could not be that the explosion ex-plosion was caused by a frozen hot water jacket. People standing outside out-side the building think -they heard, three distinct explosions following each other in rapid succession. Sticks of gaint powder that came in the coal must have been the cause. Bugler. . i |