| Show DYNAMITE IN IN YOUR KITCHEN your kitchen contains everyday ma ina serials potentially as dangerous as dynamite i i this was demonstrated recently in an apartment house when a tenant decided to bake a cake in gathering together tog ether the ingredients she discovered that the flour which she had bad poured out into a dish contained bugs she stepped over to the incinerator the shaft of which i an up past all of the apartments opened the door and emptied the dish As slie she closed the door a volcano seemed to erupt A terrific explosion shook the place and a sheet of flame swept from tile the shaft into the kil laiten disfiguring the girl for life the doors of the incinerator sh shaft a ft wei were e torn off in all apartments and great damage was done on each floor several persons were sent to the hospital and yet only a juanity of flour was emptied hito aito that incinerator perhaps a pound and a quarter what happened to cause ih s great and unexpected explosion the national board of fire underwriters s offers this explanation As the powdery substance was thrown into the incinerator it separated and many minute particles articles float I 1 ed in the air causing a dust cloud that exploded as soon as it came in contact with the fire at the bottom of the incinerator shaft corn starch acts similarly under certain conditions accumulations of dust such as are removed from vacuum lea ners or carpet sweepers unless compressed into a matted mass are also hazardous A of dry coal dust if thrown loosely over a fire could cgue a devastating dova alp a stating explosion plo and will in any bent cause a dangerous flashback flash back |
