The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-05-03
AFTER MANY YEARS
LAME ACCIDENT THAT ENDED
"sHooTER's" LIFE. .5
limmle o'Hare's Long Defiance Of
Death While Handling NItrooIycerln
Fatal Moment Of carelessness
Bound to Arrive.

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I. When Jimmie O'Hare was blown
nto fragments at Chelsea one day last
week by the explosion Of a wagon load
sof nitfoelycerin prophecy was full
illed that was first made more than
swenty years ago and was reiterated
inifs without number In every oil
district In the country. For Jimmie
lac worked in every district in the
country where the chug Of the oil drill
las been heard, and In his life he
landed enough explosives to have de-
3troyed Port Arthur several times.
Daily he lived In close association with
hundreds of gallons Of nitroglycerin,
'pnd II was a common sight in the oil
country to see him rafting over. the
hills on the seat Of wagon loaded
with the deadly explosive.
He will get 1t some day." the boys
IN the Pennsylvania oil fields began
saying more than twenty years ago,
and have repeated it everywhere
Jimmie went. lgl
But all these years Jimmie laughed
at the prophecies and, laughing, would
load UP his wagon and rattle out into
he country to shoot a well, taking
With him from one to two hundred
.uarts of nitroglycerin. But the trite
adhge of the pitcher tells the story of
Iimmie's end. AS is usually the case
In such accidents, nobody knows or
ever will know how 1t happened. There
was an explosion that shook the coun-
try for miles around, and when an in
vestigation was made there was little
to be found except wide, deep hole
in the ground.
The man who was killed often told
of incidents that illustrated the freak.
ishness of the explosive he handled,
and 1t may have been some freak that
cost him his life. Jimmie used to tell
Of the runaway In the streets Of Brad.
ford, Pa, when team dragged
glycerin wagon the whole length Of a
street, the cans ricochetting around
like billiard balls, and no explosion oc.
Cured. Then of another case which
occurred In the old days, when the
glycerin box was located right over
the springs Of the wagon. There was
a leaky can and three drops falling on
the springs caused the loss of two
lives He told of still another case
where a shooter on spree hurled bot
ties Of glycerin against a rock. All
Of the bottles broke, but not one ex
ploded. He would close with his story
Of that singular occurrence which took
place In Chanute last spring, when
glycerin magazine caught fire and was
entirely burned without exploding
And then he would say: TITS the fric.
ton, man, It's the friction, and that's
what I'm always looking out for" y
Maybe Jimmie forgot the friction for
once.
Jimmie had certain rules he observ
ed when handling nitroglycerin. One
day while discussing explosives he
said:
"A man had better quit this business
when he loses his nerve. 1t is just
like handling a.nettle. Take hold o.
1t and take hold strong. A nervous
or panicky fellow had better stay ava,
from glycerin, because something wi
happen. and 1t never happens to
shooter but once"
Jimmie was known to nearly ever,
oil man in New York, Pennsylvania
Indiana, Ohio, Kansas and California
-Cherryvale Correspondence Kansa
City Star