Show CHILDREN INJURED BY BLASTING CAPS Five hundred children were in in Jurod last year ear by playing with blasting caps which they had found found- Ogden Is Inthe In in the list of cities where one of o the accidents accidents occurred and andas andas andas as a result athe the institute of ot 0 makers of explosives sends The Standard Standard- Examiner the following letter According to a clipping just Suet re re- received received received we note that there has been an accident in your city to a child who found a blasting capT cai Efforts are being made by the institute of ol olm m it rs' rs r s the national safety council the United States bureau of mines the surgeon gen general eral and other agencies to call caH at at- attention attention wherever possible to the dangers of ot children playing with blasting caps caps in the hope that these thes accidents ac may cease In view of ol the fact f lct that one of these acci accidents accidents dents has boa happened in your n ur vicin vicinity ity would it be b possible for lor you I to help in 11 this work by calling at at- atI I 1 editorially to the dangers of children playing with blasting caps and to ask all of those who have to use explosives to make certain that the caps are carefully put away out of reach of ol children Would you rou also be good enough In your editorial to call attention of ot school authorities to the fact act that if by chance ch any an ot of these caps cap are found by children that this fact should be immediately reported to their parents We shall shan be obliged for any help you OU can give e us in inthis inthis this effort to lessen the tha number of ot accidents from this cause A blasting cap is a copper shell about a quarter of ot an Inch in diani- diani diameter diameter eter and an inch or two long halt half bait lull fun of ot fulminate of mercury This fulminate is the most sensitive and about the most Impulsive explosive in common use Blasting caps con con- contain contain tain tam anywhere from 15 to 30 grains of ot it primers for firearms cart cart- cartridges cartridges ridges usually contain not more than one fifth grain That's what the hammer or firing pin ot of a gun or pistol hits to ignite the powder in the shell A blasting cap is to work the other way vay The powder from the fuse ignites the fulminate in the blasting cap and it explodes with terrific force and detonates the dynamite d The ex explosion of ot the fulminate is so ex ex- exceedingly exceedingly ex- ex exceedingly quick that the flying par par- particles particles tides of copper will imbed them them- themselves themselves selves in iron a foot toot away They The will blow a hole clean through a steel plate sixteenth one-sixteenth of ot an Inch loch thick A box ot of caps will blow a ahole ahole ahole hole right through a two-Inch two oak plank One cap will blow a childs child's hand off oft Lingg one of the Chicago anarchists anar committed committed suicide by biting a blasting cap between his bis teeth |