{"id":775,"date":"2023-05-10T00:41:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=775"},"modified":"2023-05-10T00:41:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:41:02","slug":"a-fool-and-a-can-of-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"A Fool and a Can of Powder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">A Fool and a Can of Powder.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cigar-109-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-778\" src=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cigar-109-2-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cigar-109-2-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cigar-109-2.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\">LAFAYETTE, Ind. Oct. 3.\u2014A horrible and fatal explosion occurred at Bringhurst, Carroll county, on Friday.\u00a0 A man named Britton came to the store of Shanklin &amp; Kearns for some powder.\u00a0 Mr. Kearns, with a lighted cigar in his mouth, poured out the powder from a large can into the scales. In setting down the can the cigar was knocked from his mouth into the can of powder, which exploded with great violence, tearing out the front part of the building and scattering the goods into the street.\u00a0 It was a fearful wreck.\u00a0 Mr. Kearn&#8217;s arm was broken in two places, his shoulders were dislocated, and his head and face were burned in a frightful manner.\u00a0 He died in a few hours after intense suffering.\u00a0 Britton had both arms broken and was terribly burned.\u00a0 His injuries are fatal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino;\"><em>Culled from the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair &#8211; 1886 Morbid Scrapbook<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Fool and a Can of Powder. LAFAYETTE, Ind. Oct. 3.\u2014A horrible and fatal explosion occurred at Bringhurst, Carroll county, on Friday.\u00a0 A man named Britton came to the store of Shanklin &amp; Kearns for some powder.\u00a0 Mr. Kearns, with a lighted cigar in his mouth, poured out the powder from a large can into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Fool and a Can of Powder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explosive-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}