The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1873-08-23
EXPLOSION IN pANBURY.


The hremen had a parade on Saturday.
1t was II fine affair, but the absence of
Mr.. O'Clarence was deeply felt, not only
by the Department, but by the public.
His long and faithful services at the bust
ness meetings and festivals, and his splen-
did bearing on parade, have gwen Mr..
O'Clarence an enyiable position in the
hearts of his countrymen. We are sorry
he was not present Saturday. But an
unlooked-for and very painful accident
deprived him and us OF a great pleasure.
The night which preceded the last m
niSersary of u National Independence,
he took home S25 worth Of fireworks for
asplurge on the next night. He calcu-
lated he had glory enough in that pack
age to I'LL with gratitude and admiration
every Taxpayer in North street, and his
wife, after carefully examining the lot,
was equally confident that the neighbors
would see something that woald make
their eyes bung out" as she pensively
expressed it.
The next morning O'Clarence got out
the bundle to look over it again and feed
on the anticipation. There were cannon-
crackers--several packs-and Roman
candles, blue-iire, pinwheels, rockets and
the like-a very creditable assortmentfo r
any family. Mr.. Wickford's boy from
the next house was in, and sat ON the
floor holding a piece of lighted punk in
his hand, and had both his eyes and
mouth wide open, enjoying the sight.
OClarence was sitting ON his launches,
holding a pinwheel in his hand, and ex-
planning to Mrs. O'Clarence how cheaply
they could be made in China, and how
superior in Ingenuity and industry were
the Chinese to all other races. None of
them know how it happened, but O'Clar-
ence remembers that there were two
open packs of cannon-crackers just under
him, and thinks Wickford's boy lust
have, in some way, dropped the punk in
among them, and in the general interest
forgot that it was afire.
At any rate, there was a sudden hiss
right under Mr.. O'Clarence, followed in
the next instant by a tornado OF sounds
and sparks, and that gentleman at once
shot toward the ceilingin a blaze of vari-
ons-colored lights, while the air became
thick with sparks, blue Lights, blazing
balls, industrious pin-wheels, insane sky
rockets, and screening crackers. Mrs.
O'Clarence fell over II chair that cost
eight dollars when new, and struck the
back of her head against the s~toYe-hearth
with a violence that added materially to
the display of fireworks already going on.
Wickford's boy was struck in the mouth
with a sky-rocket, and had two-thirds of
his hair taken off by a roman candle, and
was knocked through a doorway by "a
piece of ordnance Just introduced this
season, and which will undoubtedly be-
come popular when understood better.
He was afterward ished out of a rose bush
and taken home in a table-cloth.
O'Clarenee remained during the entire
exhibition, looking at it from various po-
sitions, and when it was over with, he
was put in a sheet by his neighbors, and
saturated with oil, and then covered
with molasses and flour. We learn that
new skin is already forming on parts of
HIM, and if no %unfavorable symptoms set
In, he will be ont in a fortnight, although
1t Is not likely he will mingle much in
society until his hair and eyebrows com
menee TO grow. He thinks Wiekford's
boy Is dead, and they dare not tell him
to the contrary until he gets stronger.
Singuiarly enough, Mrs. O'Clarence
escaped injury by burns but the blow
on her head was so severe that she can
not bear to have her back hair drawn up
as high as it was before, and missing her
church privileges isa sore trial IN her