One morning last week at New Rochelle, N.Y., the students of the college of that name were entering chapel for seven o'clock mass when flames (caused by a short circuit) burst from the ceiling; the students fled unhurt.
The same morning at Strasbourg, France, the gasoline tank of a motor bus exploded in a car barn, covered ten workmen with flaming gasoline; three soon died; others were expected to.
The same morning at Cornish, N. H., there was a kerosene explosion in a one-room cabin: two young mothers, three infants and the cabin were incinerated; an adolescent youth escaped, gravely burned.
That fatal...
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