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 EAST SHORE NEWS
 PENTWATER, OCEANA Co., MICH.
 VOL. I, NO. 19
 Friday, 26 May 1871

        A fearful nitro-glycerine explosion occurred about five miles from
     Titusville, Pa., on the 19th.  About four hundred pounds of the com-
     pound were exploded while being transported in a wagon, and the
     driver, CHAS. C. CLARK, as well as the horses and vehicle, was blown
     to atoms, and a barn forty rods distant was demolished.  An excavation
     five feet deep and twelve feet broad was made in the roadway.  The
     largest fragment of CLARK'S body which had been found is a portion of
     his face.  The horses' shoes were stripped off and broken, and nothing
     was left of the wagon, but splinters of wood and iron were scattered
     broadcast for several hundred yards.  A woman was knocked down by a
     missle of some kind, which entered the window of her dwelling, nearly
     a quarter of a mile distant.

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