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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Saturday, 7 September 1895


         WELL-DRIVER BLOWN TO ATOMS
         
         Terrible Results of the Unexplained Explosion
           of a Dynamite Cartridge
           
         Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat
         
         Hastings, Mich., September 6. - HENRY RAGLEY,
       of this city, hired ROBERT BRYAN, of Coates Grove,
       to drive a well for him, and the well was down 90
       feet this morning when RAGLEY, his wife and a MISS
       WHITNEY went out to see BRYAN drop a dynamite car-
       tridge into the well and score the century mark,
       which BRYAN said would bring water.
         The were all clustered around the well driver,
       who was standing at the opening with a dynamite
       cartridge in his hand. Just how the accident hap-
       pened does not seem to be known, but the dynamite
       cartridge suddenly exploded. BRYAN was literally
       blown to pieces, one of his arms being carried 50
       feet, his body torn open longitudinally, his head
       blown off, and he was otherwise terribly mangled.
         MRS. RAGLEY was seriously, if not fatally injured.
         MISS WHITNEY is still unconscious from the explo-
       sion, and RAGLEY was blown 20 feet.
       
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