Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-02
Play WITH Death
Men Who Are Reckless In Han
ding High Explosives.

Men Who Are Reckless In Han
ding High Explosives.
STORIES BY HUDSON MAXIM.
The Accident by Which the inventors
Left Hand Was Blown Off-John Ben
der's Contempt For Dynamite-Mix-
ing Fire and NitrogIycerin.
lit is practically impossible" writes
Hudson Maxim in Adventure, Ito
make the ordinary laboring man ap-
preciate the necessity of care in the
safe handling of explosives. and the
life of the careful man is always en-
dangered by the actions of the care
less one
after had sold the works at Max.
i'm and had invented motorite l needed
a place in which to make the material
and hired a branch of the works there
for that purpose. 1t was winter. My
wife had accompanied me as a pre-
cautionary measure. She was sitting
In the laboratory to keep warm, near
big barrel stove charged with btu
minOus COAL
ION entering the laboratory for
something my wife asked me what
was In those two tin pals sitting near
the stove. She said that she had
suspicion it might be n1trogylycer1n.
and she Informed me that one of my
men had just been in stirring the fire
and that the sparks flew out in all d.
rectons, some Of them lighting in the
buckets to be quenched on top of the
oily liquid
"'Horrorsv l said. 1t is nitroglyc-
erinv
II called the man who had placed it
there and told him to take it away. AS
It was necessary to keep the material
from freezing he took it into the boil
er house near by. A little later on, go
ing into the boiler house, saw one of
the men stirring the fire while the 9TH
en- was standing with his coattails out
stretched in either hand. forming a
shiehlto keep the sparks from flying
into the snitroglycerin.
,fIn9the 1naRpfacture of high explo-
stYes andsin experimenting with them
as ,Httled absent very
s1lghtdlaek of gex&et aeaution, a seem
inglY ninsig nifcantf inaN vertence for a
moment, may cost one limb or his
lifes The faeeidentq that cost me my
lest hand is q casein petntl,sat1a a,..
son the day preceding that accident
1shad bad ra goM1 eaPrpAt, on q teeth,
1psrfeensea ntha stoeth 81 -aehed
threng bout 5Aes niigght aafnfds kept me
awake a egreateE pert Of the timea Ig
thes rMesniag 81 HNse, eaElN and went
down to- mN1fact0rysg at Maxim M 4.
In order to test the dryness7 of7 sqme
illuminate compound took little
piece Of titt-8poMWtb tt the .s}Aeoof An Eng
llsh R.Aanapys spr9sse , eff small particle
Nafed it onsfaas stand outside the 1q ahh2R;,
raaory apd. pAghtipgoa mattch touched ll4 q,
ifssaAH47ei!e,ai 10 brow adl div Ts,esa
-3;lowlng, to nv loss Of Pts sleep the nig I}t
taafe29Ee, tmg mtnd X Vas anott 80 alert EFT as
u@gab u agds forget to Icy .astddIePj the
raR4ainii9e .9iefeb Of lfHlm1ii}pate cQ Gq|5
pa9pd but t4staeA held fA It in nv leftt
hand. A spark from the ignited piece
oeoofpl92inate beepRaq.pdy entered ,dm9 y
LEFT ia nd ihetMfeq uBy AAngeFs,. igniitin Il
Aeatpiecez therea With thAa fri result that that
my hand was.7haoMadqH to tbs, lWEists q
bsQeeee ''wbena faaA!terihngg, m storage
Rssaqine4 ,M Nj 4t, in XMhi4eeh, oWeg8
aaYerN .GaalEloads .aRfa dynamite "a lite along
With shQQOv pounds 81 81 MI EogelatiqQya, i
saw John IN BeqdeFs2 one of my pemnlqE;
ees, calmly but emphatically opening
a case Of dynamite with hammer
and ebjset -Is promptly scharged
fEmuyi4iea 81 10 gpd bio .e,r-,rtu sGT
ffNOti dong afteEward the, .innkeeper
ahI Rarmhngdale called eon me- to- buy.
sudnesdynam and rsaid he bad Rpgag,
ed Bender to blow the stnmps oNt at
iHss meadowG lot, al told him Bender
was beonfting death for himself, ea4a
every body haround nwhen handling fdy7
Mantle, but Boniface still wanted
Bender to doI the work. 4qdte4 aiH
bsisWeil.t1 said eI,Iathe dynamite rHeq
want is 16ocents al pound, but .1f John
Fendervd oesa snotT succeed ftn blowing
himself up andnkillingd himself With
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ha1etit fer moth
fnEsd 0nn thel E0theFn hand, iii he does
blow himself up yen must pay for the
dynamite
| "a few days later there was some
hitchin Beidef.st excsptiona sluekof}A
particularly refractony1 oldostump had
resisted couple of Bender's dynamic
| attacks The failure to d1sfodge tHs
stump Bender took as arpersonalaf-
front because It reflected upon his skin
as stump b1asfer. 81 ~
| ]" Next time said he. something 81
\ going to happen He placed about
\ twenty pounds of dynamite under the
deep rooted veteran, touched It of, and
several things happened In very quick
succession. The huge stump let go its
hold on earth and, proceeded to hunt
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