Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-20
DANIELSON

An explosion, caused by using gaso- line, instead of kerosene intended, to start a fire in a stove in the work rooms of the Cyr millinery store, blew out the big plate glass window in the front of the store. about I.2O Thurs day morning and resulted in an alarm being r11ng ir that called out the de- partment. The fire did not cause any serious amount of damage.
 The explosion, however. blew the show window glass, the largest in town, into a million pieces. some of them being hurled almost across Main street Some parts of the big win dow were ground up as fine as saw dust This window was at least so feet from the stove in which the expio- sion occurred and 1t seemed remark able that such a small quantity of gas- cline could have caused such a terrific explosion.
 Benoni Meunier, who was engaged in building the fire, was quite badly burned about the face, hands and legs by the explosion While the burns Le received are severe and cause him much suffering. they are not Of a, dan gerous nature. He was attended by Dr. J. N. Perreault. Mr. Meunier was not in the. habit of starting the fire, but had agreed to do it on Thursday morning. Intending to use kerosene tU start the fire. he selected bottle fill- ed with gasoline, used about the mil inery workshop, and whei the flame came in contact with this the explQ- sion occurred.
 lf Private Leon Eenar6, z, of Bal louville member of D Battery, Seth Artillery, gets a gold stripe for everJ wound he has received in action he will ho fslx N af h. ably will be 8 record for the United sstates and, uniform so decorated that 1t likely would make Ex-kcheeser Wilhelm green with envy.
 Private Bernard arrived in New York Wednesday on the transport Cell tic from France. A New York news paperman who interview him wrote:
 "The returning soldiers speak light ly of their wounds. It takes half an hour to make Leon Bernard of Ballou- vile, Conn.,. even admit that he was wounded at all. Yet Benard suffered 62 wounds was gassed, alr1ost blinded, and sprayed with liquid fire, All of this occurred in one engagement at Chateau Thierry. where he was fight ing with the Seth Coast Artillery. A big Australian found him rolling on i the ground iB. agony and carried him 10 a dressing station
 Te1egrans received from the war de- pertinent by his father, Leon Benard, ST. of Ballouville, have Informed him that the boy bad been severely wound ed in action. and letters received from the soldier during October and later also told something of his injuries, but not of their extent. Private Benards s relatives in Eallouville did not know of his arrival in New York until one of his brothers was so informed by The Bulletin representative, Thurs day afternoon.
 Private Benard enlisted here in Dan ielson early in 1911 soon after thS Unit i ed States entered the world war. He ] went into the old 18th Company, aft l erwards the 33rd Cornpahy, which l trained at Fort Terry. The company I roster as f was at the time the Dan ] ielson company was first at Fort Ter l fn7 shows that he is now P years of age. He is the second man of the old ] 18th Company recently to arrive l Wou1ded from overseas. The first to 1 get back was Sergeant Raymond Ham, 1 ilton, who arrived in New York a few ] days ago on the hospital ship Mercy i nud has since been at a debarkation ] hospital at New York
 Before going into the service. for ! which he was keen, Private Bernard
 was employed at BallonvIlie and in ] that part Of the town of Killingly. i Petitions are to be circulated at l once, it was stated Thursday, for 1 signatures Of those who are interest ] cd in having the link of highway be- i tween Brooklyn and Hampton and the ] link between Killingly and the Rhode Island line at Little Rest hiilt to com plete the Providence Hartford trunk line. via Willimatic. Senator elect Archibald Macdonald of Putnam has promised such aid as he may be able iNo lend toward the furthering of the project, which is an exceedingly
 worthy one and would contribute to
 the further development of this part of
 Connecticut.
 An effcrt will be made 1o secure the
 names of all of the hundreds of res
 idents of Danielson, Dayville, Brook lyn, Hampton and Wiliimantic, who
 are to favor the plan. If the two un-
 completed stretches of highway are brought into Connecticut's sood roads i system. and they are parts of one ol
 the eight original trunk lines plan
 ned, this part of the state will be wei connected up with good roads leading into Rhode Island and Massachusetts There is q constantly increasing !
 Danielson and Providence and the building of the new route would opeI , a short direct run for such vehicle: 1 operating between the two places anC
 other towns hereabouts.
 The subject is one in which Brook. lyn, Hampton and WIndhana aNe alst
 interested and many names can be ob,
 taincd as petitioners from these towns
 More soldiers en route from southerr
 camps to Camp Devens 10 be muster,
 ed out, passed through Danielson or
 Thursday morning.
 Danielson's newly organized basket
 ball team, The Pirates, is one of tht
 best that has represented the borough
 in years Its victory at Jewett City
 shows the measure of its playing ca.
 pacity and some fast games may bt expected ir contests that have beer scheduled.
 Lewis Woisard, who is in Uncl,
 Sans army postal service in Paris
 has written Raymond Allen, the nep postmaster here and co-worker O his while WoiSErd was in the post of flee, of the thousands of sacks of mai