Saturday morning occured the most terrible accident that has been placed in the annals of history of this community. J.C. Land who was employed by the Munoscong Hunting and Fishing Club to take care of the grounds this winter, out two sticks of dynamite in the range oven at the club house tothaw out, as he had previously done many times. Mr. Land then went outside to saw stove wood while the dynamite was thawing. Mrs. Land was busy preparing to bake as soon as the dynamite was taken from the oven, and the distance from where she stood was barely six feet, and the explosion which came without warning threw her to the floor, breaking on leg and inflicting several ugly wounds on her lower limbs. Clarence, the little son who was in the kitchen escaped without being injured except a burn on the left ear. It is thought that he was behind his mother when the explosion occured and so escaped serious injuries.
 
    Mr. Land rushed into the house and into the kitchen which was filled with smoke and found his wife on the floor unconscious. taking her thru a window, which was blown out and was lying several rods from the house, he left her on the veranda while he rescued little Clarence and extinguished the fire which was thrown from the stove in all directions.
 
    A sewing machine in another room opposite the stove was blown all to pieces and of the stove a piece as large as a person's hand could hardly be found. Robt. Harrison drove to the scene Sunday and his report is that it is indeed miraculous that no lives were list in the explosion. Kitchen shelves were cleared of bottles, cans, etc. and pieces of the stove passed thru the bottoms of two heavy dish pans which were hanging together on the wall. Mrs. Land was brought to Pickford as soon as possible, and she is getting along as well as could be expected considering that she went thru.

    The damage to the club house is about $300, which is the estimate given by Dr. J.A. Cameron manager of the club. It is thought that the jar which caused the dynamite to explode came from the wood falling outside the house.

March 21, 1907 Pickford Clarion